Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Start reading

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

Start reading

The Latest Breaking News from Shakespeare

Why I can forgive Mark Parton's frivolous f-bomb

I think despair, not boredom, is his problem.

The Canberra Times

These Violent Delights review – Scottish Ballet’s feverish Romeo and Juliet is bold and unsettling

A taut, dreamlike reimagining of Shakespeare’s tragedy strips away romance in favour of dread, creating an engrossing and fiercely physical dance film

The Guardian - UK

Midsummer! review – Suri Noelle sparkles in a frisky Dream at the Edinburgh fringe

A lusty adaptation by Avenue Q’s co-creator is performed with verve by Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise’s daughter and her fellow students

The Guardian - UK

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

We’re going to party like it’s 1629… the masques, the music and the mayhem of Banqueting House

What music soundtracked 17th-century England? Ahead of a DJ set in Banqueting House, Georgia Mann looks at the wild, the experimental, the melancholic – and why a theorbo caused a security alert

The Guardian - UK

Game of Thrones, Shakespearean? What fools these mortals be!

The Mad King may bring more dynastic disputes and dotty despots to the RSC – but a ‘mayhap’ or a riddling aphorism does not a Shakespeare play make

The Guardian - UK

Game of Thrones: The Mad King review – an action-packed saga of dry ice and fire

This prequel to the TV series has one joust after another, spectacular stagecraft and plenty of modern resonance

The Guardian - UK

‘Can’t stop smiling!’ The wait is over for epic Game of Thrones prequel The Mad King

New play, which has been a decade in the works, opens at the Royal Shakespeare theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon after five previews were cancelled

The Guardian - UK

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Love's Labour's Lost at the Globe: Lusty and joyful

4/5 Indiana Lown-Collins’ production is a vibrant vision of one of Shakespeare’s trickier comedies

Evening Standard

Love’s Labour’s Lost review – paella, bullfighting and flamenco make Shakespeare’s farce a fiesta

Choreographer Carmen Igarza deserves to take a bow as spectacular dance and movement add passion to the seemingly unfinished play

The Guardian - UK

I Have Chills Just Hearing What It's Like To Work With Legends Like Ian McKellen And Patrick Stewart On A Marvel Set

The new Falcon got to work with some legends on Doomsday.

Cinemablend

In 1890, one man released 60 birds in New York Central park. 135 years later, there are 200 million of them across America

How 60 birds became 200 million starlings: European starlings, numbering 200 million, trace their lineage to a 1890 Manhattan release. Eugene Schieffelin introduced sixty birds, which then multiplied rapidly across the continent. These adaptable birds outcompete native species and cause significant agricultural damage annually. The popular Shakespeare myth surrounding their…

The Economic Times

In 1890, Eugene Schieffelin released European starlings in Central Park; within 69 years, their descendants had reached the Pacific

Eugene Schieffelin released European starlings in Central Park in 1890. These birds spread across the continent within sixty-nine years. Starlings are adaptable and not picky eaters, which aided their rapid proliferation. This successful introduction now causes eight hundred million dollars in annual agricultural damage. The starling's story serves as a…

The Economic Times

In 1890, European starlings introduced in New York’s Central Park began a spread that eventually produced about 150 million birds across North America

A small experiment in New York's Central Park initiated a major biological invasion. European starlings rapidly spread across North America after their 1890 introduction. These adaptable birds now number around 150 million across the continent. Their presence causes significant agricultural losses and displaces native species. This event serves as a…

The Times of India

'This is a terrible story!' - Dame Judi Dench confesses to shocking prank on her neighbour

The epitome of elegance now, Judi admits to some rather un-dame-like behaviour in a hilarious confession

Woman & Home

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

The Conversation

Mona’s new library is spectacular. But does it work as a library?

What do our bookshelves say about us? Which of our books do we choose to display and why? And what happens to a private collection when it becomes a public exhibit?

The Guardian - UK

‘I just knew it would sound incredible!’: why the Globe is giving Shakespeare some flamenco fire

Love’s Labour’s Lost offers a heady mix of passion and death – which makes the Spanish art form a perfect match, says director Indiana Lown-Collins. Our writer joins the theatre’s flamenco bootcamp

The Guardian - UK

Love’s Labour’s Lost / Much Ado About Nothing review – breezy double bill brings out the best in both

Elegantly stitching the plays into two parts of the same continuing story, Tom Littler’s sunny al fresco productions play every possible tragicomic note

The Guardian - UK

Lear review – this matriarchal monarch’s tragedy is personal not political

Maureen Beattie leads a modern-dress version, which focuses on family dynamics rather than the decline of Shakespeare’s mighty ruler

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

The Guardian - UK

Susanna Clarke: ‘I had been ill for 11 years. I felt like I was about to fall off the world’

One hundred years after Virginia Woolf explored the limitations of language in On Being Ill, the Piranesi author reflects on the power of storytelling to shape our experience of sickness

The National (Scotland)

Bard in the Botanics celebrates 25th birthday with a Scottish summer of Shakespeare

SUMMER in Glasgow is incomplete without Bard in the Botanics. Celebrating its 25th anniversary, the Bard team have programmed a “Lovers and…

Evening Standard

Star hopes audience will be ‘transformed’ by black lesbian adaption of Othello

Sharon D Clarke has been cast in the title role in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s production of Shakespeare’s tragedy.

The Guardian - UK

Michael Byrne obituary

Character actor whose decades-long career encompassed the National Theatre, war films and Coronation Street

The Guardian - UK

‘A privilege – and pretty terrifying’: James Norton to play Hamlet in the West End

The Happy Valley actor is lined up as the lead in German director Thomas Ostermeier’s first Shakespearean play in English

Evening Standard

Happy Valley star James Norton to play Hamlet in new West End production

The 40-year-old will take on the role in autumn next year.

The Guardian - UK

Venus & Adonis review – Simon Russell Beale narrates cheeky tale of puppet passion

Greg Doran directs Shakespeare’s timeless poem of seduction, told with Lyndie Wright’s gorgeous, masterfully manoeuvred miniatures

1 2 3 4 5

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Royal Shakespeare Company

54 stories

the Royal Shakespeare Company

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.