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A Midsummer Night's Dream at Shakespeare's Globe: 'Like a sexed-up Narnia'

4/5 This winter-set spin on the play brings a fairy tale dark edge to proceedings with unnerving effect

Evening Standard

Troilus and Cressida review – history repeats as farce in Pythonesque takedown of ancient heroes

Achilles is a slob and Ajax is a meathead in Owen Horsley’s streamlined production, which is bursting with invention and comic inversions

The Guardian - UK

Troilus and Cressida at Shakespeare’s Globe: 'A study of toxic masculinity'

4/5 A triumphant and timely look at war, sex and masculinity at the Shakespeare’s Globe

Evening Standard

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Shakespeare for children: an expert’s top ten books to spark their imagination

As pupils head back to school, they may well encounter Shakespeare’s plays and poems – perhaps for the first time.

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The Merry Wives of Windsor review – Shakespeare’s script is the weakest bit of this joyous revel

Falstaff’s corpulent roisterings are energetically played in Sean Holmes’ summery staging but the homely comedy comes laden with innuendo and xenophobia

The Guardian - UK

The Merry Wives of Windsor at Shakespeare’s Globe: rare London revival is a treat

4/5 Led by George Fouracres at Falstaff this is full of zest

Evening Standard

The Crucible review – Miller’s resonant tale of terror given radical sense of humour

Director Ola Ince brings absurdist comedy to Arthur Miller’s classic drama of Salem witch-hunting

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Abuse, witch-hunts and hangings: why Arthur Miller’s masterpiece The Crucible still haunts us

What’s behind all the revivals of the shocking parable about terrifying McCarthyism in 1950s America? Our writer reflects on how, through the decades, each fresh production finds new meanings that address our times

The Guardian - UK

Macbeth review – a dynamic tragedy of somersaulting ambition

This brisk staging for young audiences has acrobatic witches and action-movie fights but misses some of the play’s bloodcurdling weirdness

The Guardian - UK

Disabled actor let go by Globe theatre after alleging sex abuse settles

Olivier Award nominee Athena Stevens said she felt ‘relieved’ after settling with Shakespeare’s Globe theatre.

The Independent UK

Actor sues Shakespeare's Globe theatre over response to 'abuse' disclosure

Athena Stevens says she was traumatised by Shakespeare’s Globe bosses’ response to her disclosure of ‘sexual abuse’

Evening Standard

Christopher Benjamin obituary

Veteran stage, radio and TV actor whose many notable Shakespearean roles included Falstaff and Bottom

The Guardian - UK

Claire van Kampen, theatre director and composer, dies aged 71

Wife of actor Mark Rylance worked in various roles at Shakespeare’s Globe and had been diagnosed with cancer

The Guardian - UK

Director Claire van Kampen dies aged 71 on birthday of her husband Mark Rylance

She died in the German town of Kassel surrounded by her family on Saturday morning, a statement on behalf of Sir Mark and her daughter Juliet said.

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The Independent UK

Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre evacuated after firework ‘launched by Algerian football fans’ lands in audience

Audience evacuated to basement after misguided firework landed in Globe Theatre

The Guardian - UK

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

Artistic director of Shakespeare’s Globe says much of the anger about a non-disabled actor playing the role has been misogynistic

The Guardian - UK

Adrian Schiller obituary

British actor who brought gravitas and style to his many stage roles including Shylock and Kulygin in Chekhov’s Three Sisters

Evening Standard

Good news of the week: Sir Paul McCartney's lost guitar and London Zoo’s baby gorilla

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The Guardian - UK

Shakespeare’s Globe criticised for casting non-disabled actor as Richard III

Disabled actors respond to the announcement that Michelle Terry, the Globe’s artistic director, will be taking up the role

Evening Standard

Allen and Adcock — meet the duo behind London's queer warehouse costume studio to the stars

Max Allen and Elliot Adcock, the pair behind the newly launched Allen and Adcock Costume Studio, are ready to be taken seriously, they tell Joe Bromley

TV Tech

Shakespeare’s Globe Relies On Riedel Bolero Intercom Across Two Theaters

The Bolero intercom system has delivered high-quality audio and the ability to roam

Evening Standard

Landmark levy: which iconic London sights give the biggest boost to nearby property prices?

Research reveals the extra value achieved by home sellers close to the capital's most famous places

The Independent UK

Man in gimp suit allowed to watch Shakespeare’s Globe play with children in audience

Theatregoer watches The Comedy of Errors dressed in full latex fetish suit and mask

The Guardian - UK

Director Adele Thomas: ‘In theatre, you need a private income just to live’

The theatre and opera director on how her working-class Welsh background informs her work, the strangeness of Il trovatore, and her eclectic running playlist

The Conversation

The Winter’s Tale review: jarring Shakespeare's Globe production lacks warmth

The Winter’s Tale is one of Shakespeare’s great “hospitality plays” – a tragicomedy about what goes wrong when a guest outstays their welcome.

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