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Bette Midler says the script for Hocus Pocus 3 is “brilliant” and she is very excited.

Depiction of Shakespeare character by Friedrich Heyser believed to have inspired pop superstar’s new music video

Mixing childhood memories, songs and Shakespeare, Michael Patrick delivers a one-man show about the reality of being given four years to live

Theatre and opera director whose work stretched from Gilbert and Sullivan to Shakespeare

The singer-songwriter has proved herself a modern-day Shagspeare with Wood, a paean to the penis. When it comes to shocking lyrics, though, it faces strong competition, writes Arwa Mahdawi

‘My wife finds the whole thing hilarious. She was the girlfriend who inspired it. We’ve now been together for 30 years’

Taylor Swift's latest album The Life of a Showgirl is under fire from fans, who question her songwriting and wonder if ex-boyfriend Joe Alwyn was the hidden genius behind her lyrical peak.

As a professor of pre-Raphaelite studies, I was excited to see that the track list for Taylor Swift’s 12th album, The Life of a Showgirl includes a song called The Fate of Ophelia. Ahead of the album’s release, fans and art historians speculated that the inspiration could come from John…

Theatr Cymru’s bilingual version of Shakespeare’s tragedy brings intriguing complexity to the warring families but also some confusion