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Much Ado About Nothing at Shakespeare’s Globe review: Deliciously detailed take on Shakespeare’s summer comedy

4/5 There’s newfound depth and heaps of humour in Chelsea Walker’s stylish new staging of the beloved Shakespeare play

Evening Standard

Sam Dastor obituary

Other lives: Actor who performed with Olivier’s National Theatre company and became a familiar face on British TV

The Guardian - UK

Much Ado About Nothing review – a riot of romcom energy

With its gorgeous music, dance and costumes, this production is a sure summer blockbuster that avoids the problematic elements of Shakespeare’s play

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Maureen Beattie looks to the future with her take on Lear

FOR Scottish theatre doyenne Maureen Beattie, it makes perfect sense for King Lear to be played by a woman – even if it could have Shakespeare…

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Teen pop star show Mackenzie a 'theatre gateway drug'

A Y2K-era adaptation of Shakespeare's Scottish play sees Macbeth recast as an ambitious teen starlet, and Lady Macbeth as a stop-at-nothing stage mum.

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Death in Venice: Willem Dafoe thrills theatre biennale with adventurous shows about ghosts and rebirth

From a Noh Othello that puts Desdemona centre stage to a requiem for a family killed in the Rwandan genocide, the theatre at this year’s festival gives voice to the marginalised

The Guardian - UK

What if Macbeth was a 13-year-old child star? Shakespeare meets stage mums and sparkles in riotous adaptation

When Bell Shakespeare’s Mackenzie begins, it is with the clap of thunder and flash of lightning you might expect from any adaptation of Macbeth. And yet, what follows is no ordinary production of the much beloved Scottish play.

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Helen Mirren takes pride in King's birthday honour

The Academy Award-winning actress, 80, was recognised in the King's Birthday Honours for her services to drama.

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Dame Helen Mirren ‘incredibly proud’ after being made Companion of Honour

The Academy Award-winning actress, 80, was recognised in the King’s Birthday Honours for her services to drama.

Evening Standard

“Playing with your fingers has something to do with immediacy and soul. You’re absolutely in touch with what’s going on”: How Mark Knopfler combined sublime fingerpicking and Shakespearean tragedy in a Dire Straits classic

The early ’80s hit featured his iconic National Style O resonator guitar

MusicRadar

Radiohead’s Thom Yorke brings ‘Hamlet Hail to the Thief’ theatre show to London’s Barbican

The production sees Elsinore reimagined as a surveillance state

The Independent UK

Hamlet Hail to the Thief coming to the Barbican! How to get tickets for Radiohead's bold adaptation of Shakespeare tragedy

The production premiered at Aviva Studios in Manchester last year before running at the Royal Shakespeare theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon.

Evening Standard

Radiohead revenge tragedy Hamlet Hail to the Thief sets London dates

Production fusing the band’s sixth album and Shakespeare’s masterpiece will open at the Barbican later this year

The Guardian - UK

Mamma Mia! is Shakespeare’s Tempest in campy musical disguise

Mamma Mia!, the 1999 jukebox musical built around the songs of the pop group ABBA, became a huge hit in the theatre internationally and later a commercially successful feature film. It has inspired a host of spinoffs including a prequel film, an immersive dining experience and fan fiction.

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Storm at The Tempest: 'Bohemian' woman brings baby to sell-out Shakespeare play starring Sir Kenneth Branagh

The ‘gurgling’ and ‘cooing’ infuriated theatregoers during the sell-out show

The Guardian - AU

Virginia Gay: ‘Shakespeare’s most overrated play? Hamlet. Too long’

The actor and director on Disney villains, the sexy power of the melt emoji, and shattering a glass globe over the audience during Calamity Jane

The Guardian - UK

The Tempest review – Kenneth Branagh returns to the RSC in this enchanting production

Prospero is reimagined as a conductor in this superbly orchestrated version of Shakespeare’s tragicomedy

The Times of India

King Charles surprises audience at Kenneth Branagh’s sold-out Shakespeare show in Stratford-upon-Avon

King Charles III made a surprise appearance at a sold-out Royal Shakespeare Company performance of The Tempest, delighting theatregoers. He sat amongst the public, not in a royal box, turning a regular evening into a memorable royal moment. The visit highlights his patronage of the arts and adds significant buzz…

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King takes seat at packed show, delighting theatregoers

Charles was a surprise guest at a production of The Tempest starring Kenneth Branagh in Stratford-upon-Avon, central England.

The Independent UK

King Charles makes surprise appearance at sold-out Shakespeare play in Stratford-upon-Avon

Charles was a guest at a production of The Tempest starring Sir Kenneth Branagh

Evening Standard

Charles delights theatregoers as he takes seat at sold-out show

The King is watching Sir Kenneth Branagh perform in a production of The Tempest in Stratford-upon-Avon.

The Conversation

Poet, playwright, spy: Stephen Greenblatt conjures the brilliant life of Christopher Marlowe

In Dark Renaissance, his new biography of Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593), Stephen Greenblatt shares a trait with Marlowe and the Elizabethan playwright’s most famous character, Doctor Faustus: a desire to conjure.

The Independent UK

Drag star Jinkx Monsoon: ‘It makes sense for me to play Judy Garland. It just does’

INTERVIEW: The Broadway star and two-time ‘Drag Race’ winner speaks to Louis Chilton about portraying a timeless queer icon on stage, her struggles with addiction, and ‘treating Doctor Who like Shakespeare’

The Guardian - UK

If This Be Magic by Daniel Hahn review – how on earth do you translate Shakespeare?

Is Hamlet still Hamlet when every word has changed? A superbly diverting book about language and creativity

TechRadar

'It's kind of humbling to come back to a project after all these years, to know that the fans love the game and they love the character so much' — Edward Kenway's actor speaks about revisiting the character for Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced

Matt Ryan, the actor behind Assassin's Creed Black Flag's Edward Kenway, has discussed revisiting the character 13 years later in the upcoming remake.

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