“The Ballad of King Henry” is a time warp. The Elizabethan script by William Shakespeare is set in roughly 1860s Appalachia, but the musical play opens with its bandleader and narrator, Jeffrey Barg, ...

acoustic-throwdown tunes your boxcar-riding bones can handle. The Ballad of King Henry adapts Shakespeare's story of King Henry IV, Prince Hal, Hotspur and Falstaff—arguably the greatest ...

This ambitious documentary by St Louisbased filmmaker Matthew Rice analyzes how an exslave became one of Americas greatest talltale heroes John Henry Based on Scott Reynolds Nelsons book Steel ...