The Latest Breaking News from Shakespeare

Movie review: Viking tale 'The Northman' is Robert Eggers' best film yet

Director Robert Eggers brings the Viking epic back to the big screen in a big, bold and bloody way with “The Northman,” starring Swedish actor Alexander Skarsgard in a new retelling of the myth of Amleth, the Scandinavian legend that inspired Shakespeare’s “Hamlet.” Eggers, who made a splash with his…

Tribune News Service · Apr 19, 2022

‘I was in front of an audience but all I could think was, I could be dying’: Robert Lindsay on acting, ageing – and surviving cancer

The actor, who has starred in everything from sitcoms to Shakespeare, talks about his family rows over Brexit, having his phone hacked – and why he did not want to be like Laurence Olivier

The Guardian - UK · Apr 19, 2022

Sad! Is Donald Trump just too boring for a grand Shakespearean makeover?

Bertie Carvel is brilliant in The 47th, Mike Bartlett’s ingenious play about the former US president, but the real parallel is not with the Bard’s kings but his hollow braggarts

The Guardian - UK · Apr 14, 2022

One of the UK's biggest open air theatre festivals to return to Cardiff's Sophia Gardens

Sophia Gardens last held the long-established Cardiff Open Air Theatre Festival in 2019

Wales Online · Apr 7, 2022

From Shakespeare to Ian Curtis: British pop archive to open in Manchester

Exclusive: John Rylands Research Institute and Library to house collection that will also include Granada TV treasures

The Guardian - UK · Apr 6, 2022

COVID-19 Temporarily Stops Daniel Craig’s Return to Broadway

Could it be the curse of the Scottish play? Daniel Craig's return to Broadway in a new version of “Macbeth” has been temporarily halted after the actor contracted COVID-19. Wednesday's matinee and evening performances were canceled when the James Bond actor tested positive. When he'll returns was not immediately known,…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Apr 3, 2022

COVID-19 temporarily stops Daniel Craig's return to Broadway

Could it be the curse of the Scottish play

The Independent UK · Apr 2, 2022

Milton Jones looks back: ‘I remember making a dog-food sandwich and taking it to school for him’

The standup and his brother Andy recreate an old photo and look back on a conservative, Christian upbringing

The Guardian - UK · Apr 2, 2022

Poetry in motion: my car-free break in Shakespeare country

Stratford makes a grand opener for Warwickshire’s showreel of medieval forests, Tudor houses and civil war battlefields

The Guardian - UK · Mar 31, 2022

Review: ‘You Won’t Be Alone’ is a ruminative tale of witchcraft and the joys of being alive — it won’t be for everyone

“What a piece of work is man!” Neither of the ravenous witches in “You Won’t Be Alone” actually quote Shakespeare, but that astonished sentiment informs every beat of first-time feature filmmaker Goran Stolevski’s ruminative supernatural tale, set in the rustic hillside villages of 19th-century Macedonia.

Chicago Tribune · Mar 30, 2022