The Latest Breaking News from Shakespeare

To be or not to be: could actors really pull off staging Hamlet in the violent video game Grand Theft Auto?

During lockdown, an out-of-work actor discovered a venue within the bestselling game and decided to put on Shakespeare’s great work with friends... they just had to avoid the audience shooting them

Evening Standard · Dec 3, 2024

Twelfth Night at Orange Tree Theatre review: subtly radical, and impressively nuanced

4/5 Tom Littler’s 1940s staging of Shakespeare’s comedy might seem staid on the surface, but there’s a lot going on underneath

Evening Standard · Dec 2, 2024

Twelfth Night review – a classy, musical and seasonal feast. Play on

With its philosopher-fool character seated at a piano and central to the action, this sympathetically staged 1940s-set production is something of a revelation

The Guardian - UK · Dec 1, 2024

Streaming: the best Hamlets on screen

Ahead of Grand Theft Hamlet, in which Shakespeare’s play is staged entirely inside a video game, check out cinema’s avenging princes, from Laurence Olivier to Ethan Hawke

The Guardian - UK · Nov 23, 2024

All’s Well That Ends Well review – Shakespeare’s problem play lays bare clashing passions

Chelsea Walker’s sleek production wavers between comic and dramatic as it charts a kind of love triangle

The Guardian - UK · Nov 22, 2024

All’s Well That Ends Well at The Globe review: brisk, brutal and delightfully succinct

3/5 It’s not one for the ages, but this is a welcome chance to enjoy Shakespeare’s early ‘problem’ play

Evening Standard · Nov 22, 2024

AI can't replace creative filmmaking, says Ben Affleck

Movie star Ben Affleck has observed that AI "cannot write you Shakespeare".

BANG Premier · Nov 19, 2024

Lend me your ears: great Shakespearean actors given hi-tech talking portraits

A radical new exhibition celebrates stars including Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart by combining subtly moving artworks with their own voices. The results are uncanny

The Guardian - UK · Nov 18, 2024

People can’t tell the difference between human and AI-generated poetry – new study

Has the bell finally tolled for Shakespeare and Byron? New research conducted by philosophers of science Brian Porter and Edouard Machery suggests that the latest AI-generated poetry is “indistinguishable from human-written poetry” and “rated more favourably”.

The Conversation · Nov 15, 2024

Love and grief collide in leafy adaption of Twelfth Night

Shakespeare is headed to Newcastle East.

Newcastle Herald · Nov 15, 2024