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    Josie Rourke's As You Like It is full of wintry charm

    As You Like It, @sohoplace review ★★★★★

    06 Dec 22 – 28 Jan 23

    Director Josie Rourke’s overtly musical take on the Bard's As You Like It @sohoplace proves the pastoral tale can be just as cheery in winter

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    Othello review: sleek but too surface level

    Othello, National Theatre review ★★★★★

    23 Nov 22 – 21 Jan 23

    Clint Dyer’s slick production of Othello at the National Theatre starkly illuminates the systemic racism and misogyny in society

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    Book now for winter at the Globe

    Book now for the Globe Winter Season 2022/23

    Director Jude Christian takes on Titus Andronicus, Holly Race Roughan does Henry V and Sean Holmes presents an indoor-outdoor take on The Winter's Tale

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    Henry V, just when we need it

    Henry V, Sam Wanamaker Playhouse

    10 Nov 22 – 04 Feb 23

    Shakespeare’s Globe, Headlong and Leeds Playhouse unite to present a fresh take on Shakespeare’s timeless history play Henry V, directed by Holly Race Roughan

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    Director Jude Christian takes on Titus Andronicus

    Titus Andronicus, Sam Wanamaker Playhouse

    19 Jan 23 – 15 Apr 23

    Shakespeare’s first and bloodiest tragedy Titus Andronicus in a new production by pioneering director Jude Christian at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse

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    The Winter’s Tale – in a promenade first

    The Winter’s Tale, Sam Wanamaker Playhouse

    09 Feb 23 – 16 Apr 23

    In a first for Shakespeare's Globe, director Sean Holmes presents a promenade The Winter’s Tale that moves between the theatre’s indoor and outdoor spaces

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    Kathryn Hunter is mesmerising as a fragile King Lear

    King Lear, Shakespeare’s Globe review ★★★★★

    10 Jun 22 – 24 Jul 22

    Kathryn Hunter and Michelle Terry deliver star performances in Helena Kaut-Howson's revival of her 1997 production of King Lear at Shakespeare's Globe

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    Globe production gives Henry VIII's women a voice

    Henry VIII, Shakespeare’s Globe review ★★★★★

    26 May 22 – 25 Oct 22

    Shakespeare’s King Henry VIII comes in for a savage reappraisal in Hannah Khalil’s radical rewrite of the play, now on at the Globe Theatre

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    Much Ado About Nothing for the Love Island era

    Much Ado About Nothing, Shakespeare’s Globe review ★★★★★

    22 Apr 22 – 23 Oct 22

    Director Lucy Bailey returns to the Globe with a playful, libido-fuelled take on Much Ado About Nothing that runs on Love Island-style drama and sexual tension

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    Kit Harington’s Henry V favours style over substance

    Henry V, Donmar Warehouse review ★★★★★

    12 Feb 22 – 09 Apr 22

    The Donmar’s associate director Max Webster presents a befuddled production of Henry V, starring a flat Kit Harington, that favours style over substance

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    Sean Holmes’s The Tempest at Shakespeare’s Globe

    Sean Holmes’s The Tempest, Shakespeare’s Globe

    22 Jul 22 – 22 Oct 22

    The Globe’s Sean Holmes transports audiences to the magical lair of Prospero and co with his fresh-air take on the Bard’s elemental comedy, The Tempest

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    Frances McDormand shines in The Tragedy of Macbeth

    The Tragedy of Macbeth, Apple TV+ review ★★★★★

    14 Jan 22 – 14 Jan 23

    Joel Coen adapts and directs this new, black-and-white adaptation of the William Shakespeare play. Stars Denzel Washington, Frances McDormand and Brendan Gleeson

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    Blanche McIntyre tackles Measure for Measure

    Measure for Measure, Shakespeare’s Globe

    19 Nov 21 – 15 Jan 22

    Director Blanche McIntyre stages Shakespeare’s ‘problem play’ Measure for Measure in the atmospheric Sam Wanamaker Playhouse at Shakespeare’s Globe

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    A claustrophobic Hamlet comes to the Globe

    Sean Holmes's Hamlet, Shakespeare’s Globe

    21 Jan 22 – 09 Apr 22

    Director Sean Holmes stages the first ever production of Hamlet to play inside the candlelit Sam Wanamaker Playhouse at Shakespeare’s Globe

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    The RSC’s Dream: Nick Cave, avatars and a virtual forest

    Dream, RSC review ★★★★★

    12 Mar 21 – 20 Mar 21

    In Dream, the RSC brings to life the world of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream for audiences at home

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    Sir Ian McKellen's one-man show transfers to West End

    Sir Ian McKellen in Shakespeare, Tolkien, Others & You, Harold Pinter Theatre

    20 Sep 19 – 05 Jan 20

    In Shakespeare, Tolkien, Others & You, Sir Ian McKellen guides audiences through a retrospective of his 50-year career

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    Richard III, Sam Wanamaker Playhouse

    Richard III, Sam Wanamaker Playhouse

    13 Nov 19 – 26 Jan 20

    The Globe stages Richard III, a deliciously villainous play featuring the hunchback that everyone loves to hate.

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    A magical and menacing Midsummer Night's Dream

    A Midsummer Night's Dream, Regent's Park Open Air Theatre review ★★★★★

    28 Jun 19 – 27 Jul 19

    Dominic Hill's A Midsummer Night's Dream at Regent's Park is dark, hilarious and open air theatre at its very best

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    Summer of Shakespeare, Blenheim Palace

    Summer of Shakespeare, Blenheim Palace

    08 Jul 19 – 07 Sep 19

    Blenheim Palace will welcome Europe's first pop-up Shakespearean theatre with a season of Renaissance revelry

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    A Midsummer Night's Dream in a square near you

    Shakespeare in the Squares: A Midsummer Night's Dream

    19 Jun 19 – 11 Jul 19

    Head to one of London's historic squares to watch the summertime Shakespeare favourite, A Midsummer Night's Dream

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    Book now for the Globe's summer season

    Summer Season, Shakespeare's Globe

    Michelle Terry is back for her second summer season

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    Richard III opens Ally Pally Theatre

    Richard III, Alexandra Palace Theatre review ★★★★★

    13 Mar 19 – 31 Mar 19

    Headlong theatre company bring a radically different take on Shakespeare's Richard III to the newly-restored Alexandra Palace Theatre

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    See Kenneth Branagh play Shakespeare in All Is True

    All is True film review ★★★★★

    08 Feb 19 – 08 Feb 20

    Retelling the final days of William Shakespeare, All Is True sees Kenneth Branagh direct and star in a lesser-known literary life story

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    The Merry Wives of Windsor, Barbican Theatre review

    The Merry Wives of Windsor, Barbican Theatre review ★★★★★

    07 Dec 18 – 07 Jan 19

    Modern Essex meets Elizabethan Windsor in this playful production of Shakespeare's silly Falstaff spin-off

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    Doctor Faustus at the Sam Wanamaker Winter Season

    Doctor Faustus, Sam Wanamaker Playhouse review ★★★★★

    01 Dec 18 – 02 Feb 19

    Female comedians Pauline McLynn and Jocelyn Jee Esien have livened up Doctor Faustus into a giggling romp for the 2019 Sam Wanamaker Winter season

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    Romeo and Juliet, Barbican Theatre review

    Romeo and Juliet, Barbican Theatre review ★★★★★

    02 Nov 18 – 19 Jan 19

    The Royal Shakespeare Company brings the Bard’s most famous love story to the Barbican Theatre

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    Kids 

    The Winter’s Tale, National Theatre

    The Winter’s Tale, National Theatre

    06 Feb 19 – 21 Feb 19

    Justin Audibert’s child-friendly production of The Winter’s Tale comes to the National Theatre

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    Themes 

    Measure for Measure for the #MeToo generation

    Measure for Measure, Donmar Warehouse review ★★★★★

    28 Sep 18 – 24 Nov 18

    Hayley Atwell and Jack Lowden alternate roles in a gender swapping production of Measure for Measure

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    The Shakespeare Plays To See In London Theatres Right Now

    Three Shakespeare shows to see

    Me Too era updates, R n B soundtracks or steamy romance: the three Shakespeare shows to see this autumn

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    Musical adaptation makes Twelfth Night into Notting Hill Carnival

    Twelfth Night, Young Vic Theatre review ★★★★★

    02 Oct 18 – 17 Nov 18

    Shorn in half, stuffed with poptastic songs, and relocated to a vibey Notting Hill Carnival: Kwame Kwei-Armarh's Twelfth Night is a bombastic take on Shakespeare

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    Theatre 

    A new Macbeth takes to the London stage

    Macbeth, The Barbican

    15 Oct 18 – 18 Jan 19

    Christopher Eccleston and Niamh Cusack star in the RSC's production of Macbeth, which transfers to London

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    Unmissable: Ian McKellen is King Lear

    Ian McKellen's King Lear, Duke of York's Theatre review ★★★★★

    11 Jul 18 – 03 Nov 18

    If you only see one Shakespeare, make it this: the almighty Ian McKellen plays King Lear in Jonathan Munby's triumphant production

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