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Rising star director Michael Longhurst tells us about switching from bold new writing to traditional Shakespeare
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Dance
The veteran Belgian choreographer Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker brings her Rosas company back to Sadler’s Wells with a challenging reading of Shakespeare’s comedy As You Like It.
Tried and Tested
Theatre
Shakespeare's late romance comes to life in the historically accurate surroundings of the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse
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Theatre
Shakespeare's Macbeth gets a dance makeover from director Carrie Cracknell and choreographer Lucy Guerin at the Young Vic 2015
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Festival
This January the Barbican presents a retrospective season of RSC productions of Shakespeare captured on screen.
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Theatre
Shakespeare's late play gets a merry makeover at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse
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Theatre
A tour-de-force of theatre talents dazzle in the first of Kenneth Branagh's plays at the Garrick
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Exclusive
Shakespeare at the National Theatre gets a mystical makeover in a fresh, As You Like it with a radiant performance from Rosalie Craig
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Theatre
Director Joe Hill-Gibbins gives Shakespeare's problem play a radical revamp and heap of sex dolls at the Young Vic
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Theatre
Trevor Nunn brings Shakespeare's histories to life with epic drama in this engrossing triliogy of plays
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Dance
Love and despair know no bounds in the Royal Ballet’s Romeo and Juliet, Kenneth Macmillan’s ageless tragedy.
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Cinema
Marion Cotillard and Michael Fassbender star in Justin Kurzel's modern adaptation of Shakespeare's dark tragedy.
Interview
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We talk to Romola Garai, star of the Young Vic's 'Measure for Measure' about working on Suffragette, living in a covent and sexist directors
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Cinema
New children's film Bill: Horrible Histories movie about Shakespeare shows the bard's life with a starry cast and plenty of hi-jinks
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Theatre
Mixed reviews for Benedict Cumberbatch's Hamlet: get day tickets and decide for yourself at the Barbican
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Theatre
Innovative theatre company Rift present four new plays and programme of screenings and events to celebrate Shakespeare in Shoreditch, April 2016
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Theatre
Shakespeare's lesser-known play is brought emphatically to life by Simon Godwin, director, for the Globe new Justice and Mercy season 2015.
Interview
Between playing Isabella in Measure for Measure, Mariah Gale takes a break from Shakespeare to talk gutsy heroines, celebrity Hamlets and happy endings.
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Theatre
These daytime performances of A Comedy of Errors are sure to be a hit with kids from eight to 12
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Theatre
Shakespeare comes inside this winter with a season of the late plays in the candlelit surroundings of the Wanamaker playhouse.
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Festival
A two-week celebration celebration of song, focusing on the connections between poetry and music
Tried and Tested
Theatre
Blanche McIntyre's straight-as-a-rod 'As You Like It' droops at the edges, despite outstanding performances.
Must See
The humour and heartbreak of Shakespeare's problem play are brought to life with Jonathan Pryce making a stellar Shylock says Lucy Brooks
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REVIEW: Shakespeare's Othello is made urgently alive as the physical theatre brings thrilling ripples of violence and sensuality writes Lucy Brooks
Tried and Tested
Theatre
After impressing in 2015, actor Jonathan Pryce (Wolf Hall) is back at the Globe Shakespeare’s tragicomedy about mercy, corruption and the role of the outsider
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All that glitters in Shakespeare's most controversial comedy sparkles on the Almeida stage as Rupert Goold's boldly updated production illuminates both humour and tragedy.
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Dance
Shakespeare's timeless tale of 'star-cross'd' love is set in 20th century Italy in this the most iconic of the Scottish company's ballets.
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Dance
Sadler’s Wells has an impressive roster of Associate Artists and Chrystal Pite is the newest member of this exclusive group...
Last Chance
Dance
The Stuttgart Ballet returns to Sadler’s Wells for a week this November with two performances that blend the classic and the cutting-edge.