‘They’re teaching me’: Greg Doran on staging Shakespeare’s unloved Two Gents with students
The theatre director, now teaching at Oxford after years running the RSC, thinks The Two Gentlemen of Verona is perfect for a young cast to argue over. We go into rehearsals
April 2024
‘Don’t come if you are worried’: former RSC boss says he hates trigger warnings for plays
Gregory Doran asks how content warnings could be issued for Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus
February 2024
Gregory Doran to finally direct 36th play from Shakespeare’s First Folio – for student production
The former RSC director, now visiting professor of contemporary theatre at Oxford University, will stage The Two Gentlemen of Verona
May 2023
Cymbeline review – Shakespeare’s knotty romance is a fabulous farewell for Doran
Departing artistic director Greg Doran reinvigorates this tale of a royal family in crisis with clarity and intelligence
April 2023
Gregory Doran: ‘Shakespeare defines things when you can’t’
Romeo, Macbeth, Hamlet and me: the ecstasy and agony of staging Shakespeare
July 2022
The week in theatre: The Seagull; The Southbury Child; Richard III
Richard III review – Shakespeare’s supervillain breezes through the bloodbath
April 2022
It’s time for the Royal Shakespeare Company to be led by an actor
Michael Billington
Gregory Doran to step down after a decade as artistic director at RSC
September 2021
Gregory Doran takes leave from RSC to care for terminally ill Antony Sher
The Royal Shakespeare Company’s artistic director has taken compassionate leave to care for his husband, the celebrated actor
June 2021
Lockdown culture
Bard day’s work: what I learned from eavesdropping on RSC rehearsals
RSC completes £8m project to update theatre’s costume department
April 2021
RSC plans Stratford garden theatre for summer reopening
Temporary performance space will be ‘symbol of regeneration’ and stepping stone to return indoors
March 2021
The RSC at 60: the glorious past and vital future of a theatrical revolution
The Royal Shakespeare Company survived establishment resistance and economic storms to become a powerhouse. How should it now change?
February 2021
Is this an avatar I see before me? Audience takes to stage in virtual Shakespeare play
Video game software enables actors to interact with viewers in real-time fantasy
October 2020
Culture in peril
Royal Shakespeare Company says more than 150 roles at risk due to pandemic
RSC aims to open its biggest Stratford theatre in December, but two other venues will remain closed until 2022
July 2020
Theatres that made us
Fight a pigeon for your seat! Unforgettable theatre encounters
Susan Wokoma recalls plays backed by birdsong, Tallulah Brown found a fairytale in the reeds and Gregory Doran takes a trip back to Lancaster
April 2020
RSC asks public to #ShareYourShakespeare for Bard's birthday
Call for creative celebrations – such as with a painting, cake or dog trick – for virtual project
March 2020
Hail, Coriolanus! The greatness of Shakespeare's shape-shifting epic
From Olivier’s strangled fury to Ralph Fiennes’ Oedipal embraces, this complex political play is extraordinarily flexible
