The Latest Breaking News from Shakespeare

'This is a terrible story!' - Dame Judi Dench confesses to shocking prank on her neighbour

The epitome of elegance now, Judi admits to some rather un-dame-like behaviour in a hilarious confession

Woman & Home · Jul 18

Mona’s new library is spectacular. But does it work as a library?

What do our bookshelves say about us? Which of our books do we choose to display and why? And what happens to a private collection when it becomes a public exhibit?

The Conversation · Jul 13

‘I just knew it would sound incredible!’: why the Globe is giving Shakespeare some flamenco fire

Love’s Labour’s Lost offers a heady mix of passion and death – which makes the Spanish art form a perfect match, says director Indiana Lown-Collins. Our writer joins the theatre’s flamenco bootcamp

The Guardian - UK · Jul 13

Star hopes audience will be ‘transformed’ by black lesbian adaption of Othello

Sharon D Clarke has been cast in the title role in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s production of Shakespeare’s tragedy.

Evening Standard · Jul 1

Michael Byrne obituary

Character actor whose decades-long career encompassed the National Theatre, war films and Coronation Street

The Guardian - UK · Jun 30

‘A privilege – and pretty terrifying’: James Norton to play Hamlet in the West End

The Happy Valley actor is lined up as the lead in German director Thomas Ostermeier’s first Shakespearean play in English

The Guardian - UK · Jun 28

Happy Valley star James Norton to play Hamlet in new West End production

The 40-year-old will take on the role in autumn next year.

Evening Standard · Jun 28

Venus & Adonis review – Simon Russell Beale narrates cheeky tale of puppet passion

Greg Doran directs Shakespeare’s timeless poem of seduction, told with Lyndie Wright’s gorgeous, masterfully manoeuvred miniatures

The Guardian - UK · Jun 24

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 · Jun 23

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 · Jun 21