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Shakespeare's Globe

June 2024

  • Amalia Vitale, centre, as Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing at Shakespeare’s Globe

    The week in theatre: Much Ado About Nothing; Kiss Me, Kate – review

  • 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

  • Coercive control … Andrew Leung as Petruchio and Thalissa Teixeira as Katharina in The Taming of the Shrew.

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

  • William Russell, left, as Ian Chesterton, with William Hartnell as the Doctor, Jacqueline Hill as Barbara and Carole Ann Ford as Susan in the Doctor Who serial The Keys of Marinus, 1964.

    William Russell obituary

May 2024

  • Francesca Amewudah-Rivers as Juliet, with Kody Mortimer (camera operator) in Romeo & Juliet.

    The week in theatre: Romeo & Juliet; Richard III; Passing Strange review – no fault in these stars

  • 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

  • Terry as Richard III, wearing a cropped blond wig, a black leather jacket and black trousers. She is sitting on the edge of the stage.

    ‘The level of hate was dangerous’: Michelle Terry on the backlash to her casting as Richard III

  • A scene from Much Ado About Nothing

    Much Ado About Nothing review – frothy fun to please the purists

April 2024

  • Francesca Mills

    ‘Expect more from me’: actor Francesca Mills on Shakespeare and shifting expectations

  • Gregory Doran

    ‘Don’t come if you are worried’: former RSC boss says he hates trigger warnings for plays

March 2024

  • An RSC First Encounters with Shakespeare workshop at a Warwickshire primary school

    ‘We’re barely hanging on’: England’s cultural jewels fall into the red

    New arts lobby group says plight that hits even top bodies such as Royal Shakespeare Company makes entire country poorer
  • Ashley Byam (Mercutio) and Liam King (Tybalt) in Romeo and Juliet.

    Romeo and Juliet review – a fiery-footed, stunt-riding thriller

    Freestyling cyclists serve around the cast in Lucy Cuthbertson’s shrewd production aimed at younger audiences

    • Brief letters
      A world of superb theatre at Shakespeare’s Globe for just £5

    • Murderer, manipulator… or not that bad at all? The reframing of Richard III

    • The Duchess of Malfi review – revenge tragedy goes hard on the humour

February 2024

  • Composite: Richard III actors. Tom Mothersdale at Bristol Old Vic, 2019, Mat Fraser at Hull Truck Theatre, 2017, Arthur Hughes at RSC, 2022.

    Acting, disability and the problem with ‘lived experience’

  • Lucy Black (Hazel) and Derek Riddell (John) in Till the Stars Come Down at the National Theatre

    The week in theatre: Till the Stars Come Down; Othello; Plaza Suite – review

January 2024

  • Michelle Terry sits on a chair as Richard III

    Non-disabled Richard III actor to press on despite calls for recast

    Michelle Terry, who is also the Globe’s artistic director, says she will not alter her physicality for role
  • Ken Nwosu (Othello) and Ira Mandela Siobhan (Subconscious Othello) at Sam Wanamaker Playhouse.

    Othello review – Shakespeare’s tragedy interrogated in New Scotland Yard

    Ola Ince’s production is set within a hostile modern police force and has DCI Othello’s unconscious portrayed by a second actor
  • Richard III as played by, from left, Tom Mothersdale at Bristol Old Vic in 2019, Mat Fraser for Hull Truck and Northern Broadsides in 2017 and Arthur Hughes at the RSC in 2022.

    ‘I’m done with pretenders’: disabled actors on reclaiming Richard III

    As the Globe faces accusations of ‘cripping up’ with a new production of Shakespeare’s tragedy, disabled theatre-makers explain why the role should not be open to all
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