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Exclusive: Bafta-winner to join actors and young asylum seekers in 24-hour fundraising ‘Shakespeare marathon’

This short, snappy work of popular scholarship by Will Tosh, head of research at Shakespeare’s Globe, is a necessary provocation and a highly selective bid to claim our national poet as a queer icon. Fair enough. As Tosh says in his introduction, red-faced heterosexuals have spent centuries explaining away the…

Michael Lista’s new collection of poems should come with a Health Canada warning

This history of the bitter fight over the Federal Theatre Project has disturbing lessons for today’s politics

Picture perfect storytelling at its finest

Shakespeare’s work is classic enough to withstand almost anything, but this is a disaster that diminishes both play and performer

A marathon achievement for its feat of memory, this performance feels like avant garde cabaret at times

The Winter’s Tale is retold with a virtual reality plot set in Silicon Valley and hardly any lines from the original, staged at a bold Latvian theatre elevating English talent

It’s clear that the ‘Euphoria’ actor loves a theme