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William Shakespeare

July 2024

  • Sidney Blumenthal

    Joe Biden’s trajectory is like a Shakespearean tragedy

    Sidney Blumenthal
  • Macbeth (An Undoing) Bojana Novakovic c Jeff Busby[1]

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

  • woman wearing white shirt and wings kisses man in knight's armor

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

  • Alastair Whatley in The Importance of Being Oscar.

    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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Lucy Tregear as Meg Page, Richard Cordery as Sir John Falstaff and Claire Carrie as Alice Ford in The Merry Wives of Windsor at the Old Vic, London, in 2003.

    Need proof who wrote Shakespeare’s plays? See The Merry Wives of Windsor

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