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William Shakespeare

July 2024

  • Rosemarie Akwafo (Nona) in Rough Magic at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse.

    Play time
    Rough Magic review – zany riff on Macbeth bewitches young audience

    Gleefully batty caper finds one of the weird sisters in hot cauldron water after making reckless promises of a very bright future to a passing thane
  • Sidney Blumenthal

    Joe Biden’s trajectory is like a Shakespearean tragedy

    Sidney Blumenthal
    George Clooney could star as Biden in a rich adaptation of the pathos, tragedy and triumph of the president’s life in politics

    • Macbeth (An Undoing) review – Lady M takes over Shakespeare’s play … but what for?

    • Shakespeare goes pop: the best of the Bard’s work updated on screen

    • The best theatre to stream this month
      The best theatre to stream this month: Shakespeare v the Tories, Mel C’s dance show and more

June 2024

  • Mark Uhre as Nick Bottom with members of the company in Something Rotten!. Stratford Festival 2024. Photo: Ann Baggley.

    O, Canada! The Bard is ribbed and revered at Ontario’s Stratford festival

  • At the heart of the exhibition hall are the Folger’s crown jewels: its 82 copies of the First Folio, the first published collection of Shakespeare’s plays.

    ‘We’re going to find the next Shakespeare’: inside DC’s $80m library renovation

  • Samuel Barnett (left) and Mark Rylance in Twelfth Night at Shakespeare’s Globe.

    Book of the day
    Straight Acting by Will Tosh review – out on stage

  • Jonathan Bailey as Richard II.

    Bridgerton’s Jonathan Bailey to play Richard II on London stage

  • Disputes about Shakespeare’s authorship are much ado about nothing

  • Ian McKellen’s understudy to perform in final London dates of Player Kings

  • The Taming of the Shrew review – full of foolishness, low on laughs

  • Ian McKellen ‘looking forward to returning to work’ after falling off stage

  • The Merry Wives of Windsor offers strong evidence that Shakespeare was not its author

  • ‘He queered the hell out of it’: the man behind Shakespeare’s same-sex love sonnets

  • ‘The war was not going to stop me’: amateur Ukrainian actors stage King Lear in UK

  • Romeo n Juliet 4EVA review – Jamaican teens breathe fresh life into Shakespeare romance

May 2024

  • Performers in silver bodysuits wearing colourful cartoon-like heads

    Exit, pursued by a panda: the Brits bringing eye-popping Shakespeare to the Baltics

    The Winter’s Tale is retold with a virtual reality plot set in Silicon Valley and hardly any lines from the original, staged at a bold Latvian theatre elevating English talent
  • Romeo & Juliet. Tom Holland (Romeo) & Francesca Amewudah-Rivers (Juliet). Credit - Marc Brenner. 1189 Romeo & Juliet at the Duke of York's Theatre Mon 13 May - Sat 3 Aug 2024

    Romeo & Juliet review – Tom Holland enters to whoops as Francesca Amewudah-Rivers shows a steely cool

    The Spider-Man star and his spikily charismatic Juliet, giving a heroic performance after all the abuse she faced, are perfectly cast in Jamie Lloyd’s turbo-stylised production
  • Michelle Terry and Helen Schlesinger in Richard III at Shakespeare's Globe.

    Richard III review – a fast-paced study of toxic masculinity with an almost entirely female cast

    Michelle Terry portrays the king as a playfully antic sociopath in a lively production full of effective performances
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