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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 · Mar 14, 2025

Husband begs internet for help with wife’s ‘deranged’ plan to name their twins Romeo & Juliet

‘Naming twins after famous lovers?? It’s not good don’t do it,’ one person argues

The Independent UK · Mar 13, 2025

Bardy Thomas obituary

Other lives: Voice coach at the Central School of Speech and Drama, Royal Shakespeare Company and Rada

The Guardian - UK · Mar 13, 2025

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Lady Dimitrescu actor wasn't a gamer before Resident Evil Village, so she "pulled a lot of Shakespeare stuff" into her vampire mommy role

Lady D "really truly" changed her life

GamesRadar · Mar 13, 2025

Australia to host ‘Space-out competition’ – where people compete to do nothing

Created by a South Korean artist suffering burnout, the serious but absurd contest is just one of 65 events coming to Melbourne’s winter arts festival

The Guardian - AU · Mar 11, 2025

Review clearing Manchester’s Royal Exchange of censorship criticised

A modern retelling of A Midsummer Night’s Dream was pulled last September in a dispute over one of the play’s songs

The Guardian - UK · Mar 11, 2025

With most male actors at war, a small Ukrainian theater reinvents itself with an all-female cast

The Chernihiv Regional Youth Theater in Ukraine has adapted to the war by having women perform traditionally male roles, after many men left the troupe to fight on the front line

The Independent UK · Mar 8, 2025

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I’m so proud of my trans daughter for coming out in this intolerant climate

Letter: Shakespeare wrote: ‘This above all, to thine own self be true.’ Having the courage to do that when transphobia is rife is worthy of love and respect, writes Rachael Stevenson

The Guardian - UK · Mar 7, 2025

Is Science Rigged for the Rich?

A recent study claiming inequality of opportunity in the sciences commits statistical and conceptual errors that make its findings meaningless.

Reason · Mar 6, 2025

Love’s Labour’s Lost (More or Less) review – lads on tour in Ibiza swear off sex

Elizabeth Godber and Nick Lane relocate Shakespeare’s comedy of abstinence to the throbbing heart of 90s hedonism

The Guardian - UK · Mar 5, 2025

Is this a cheese grater I see before me? This is Shakespeare as you’ve never seen it before

Table Top Shakespeare involves six performers retelling the Bard’s plays using household objects on a table. Yes, it is immensely – if not universally – popular

The Guardian - AU · Mar 3, 2025

Uncertainties, mysteries, doubts: Madeleine Watts takes an elegiac road trip through the American southwest

In December 1817, the Romantic poet John Keats sent a letter to his brothers George and Thomas, in which he celebrated a quality in Shakespeare’s work he termed “negative capability”. He defined this as “when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after…

The Conversation · Mar 2, 2025

Roger Harcourt obituary

Other lives: Headteacher who transformed the lives of his Hertfordshire comprehensive pupils with summer Shakespeare camps

The Guardian - UK · Mar 2, 2025

Who is better, Dickens or Shakespeare? We asked nine prominent writers

Elif Shafak, Sarah Perry, Jeffrey Boakye and others tell us which of the two totemic literary figures they favour

The Guardian - UK · Mar 2, 2025

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The Guardian - UK · Feb 27, 2025

Romeo and Juliet review – rap tragedy asks the audience who to blame

There are ideas aplenty in this high-concept musical retelling of Shakespeare, but it gets off to a bumpy start

The Guardian - UK · Feb 25, 2025

The play that changed my life: Sing Sing’s Clarence Maclin on lessons from Sophocles in prison

Staging Shakespeare and Twelve Angry Men with fellow prisoners was a revelation but Oedipus Rex proved particularly poignant

Evening Standard · Feb 25, 2025

Radiohead take on Shakespeare with Hamlet Hail To The Thief

A new live experience fusing theatre, music and movement is coming this spring, in which a new version of Hamlet will be set to Thom Yorke’s reworking of Radiohead’s famous album

The Guardian - UK · Feb 23, 2025

The week in theatre: Hamlet; Much Ado About Nothing; Richard II – review

Luke Thallon is a compelling, all-at-sea Hamlet, Hayley Atwell and Tom Hiddleston sizzle as Beatrice and Benedick, while Bridgerton’s Jonathan Bailey is a bit too much the overreaching king

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The Guardian - UK · Feb 21, 2025

Much Ado About Ken: Barbie style star is still making menswear shimmer

Almost two years on from film’s debut, Ryan Gosling character’s himbo look has reached the West End in London

The Independent UK · Feb 20, 2025

Tom Hiddleston is on winning bum-wiggling form in Much Ado About Nothing

4/5 Hiddleston and Marvel co-star Hayley Atwell quip their way through this calculatedly naff Shakespeare revamp featuring Noughties pop ballads

Evening Standard · Feb 19, 2025

Tom Hiddleston and Hayley Atwell have potent chemistry in this rave-tastic Shakespeare production

5/5 Jamie Lloyd’s Much Ado About Nothing proves stunt casting works when the stars have this much rizz

The Guardian - UK · Feb 19, 2025

Much Ado About Nothing review – Tom Hiddleston and Hayley Atwell crackle in a party of pink

With a chemistry that is as bright as the modern-day costumes in this weird and wonderful show, the actors turn Shakespeare into a giddy house party cum modern romcom

The Guardian - UK · Feb 19, 2025

Hamlet review – RSC’s bold seaborne concept really pushes the boat out

The court of Elsinore becomes a ship of state – or a ship of fools – in Rupert Goold’s production

The Guardian - UK · Feb 16, 2025

‘The snake fell out of my wig’: why Judi Dench lost her voice when playing Cleopatra

The actor recalls a terrifying moment when playing the doomed Egyptian queen during a 1987 production of the Shakespeare classic

The Guardian - UK · Feb 16, 2025

‘I’m an actor, not a mouthpiece’: Bridgerton’s Jonathan Bailey on fame and the pressure to speak out

Bridgerton, then Wicked, gave Jonathan Bailey a huge fanbase, but the responsibility on the actor to use his platform is intense

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