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Theatre
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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In Shakespeare, Tolkien, Others & You, Sir Ian McKellen guides audiences through a retrospective of his 50-year career
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Theatre
The Globe stages Richard III, a deliciously villainous play featuring the hunchback that everyone loves to hate.
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Theatre
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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Kids
Blenheim Palace will welcome Europe's first pop-up Shakespearean theatre with a season of Renaissance revelry
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Theatre
Head to one of London's historic squares to watch the summertime Shakespeare favourite, A Midsummer Night's Dream
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Michelle Terry is back for her second summer season
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Headlong theatre company bring a radically different take on Shakespeare's Richard III to the newly-restored Alexandra Palace Theatre
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Cinema
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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Theatre
Modern Essex meets Elizabethan Windsor in this playful production of Shakespeare's silly Falstaff spin-off
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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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Theatre
The Royal Shakespeare Company brings the Bard’s most famous love story to the Barbican Theatre
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Kids
Justin Audibert’s child-friendly production of The Winter’s Tale comes to the National Theatre
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Themes
Hayley Atwell and Jack Lowden alternate roles in a gender swapping production of Measure for Measure
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Themes
Me Too era updates, R n B soundtracks or steamy romance: the three Shakespeare shows to see this autumn
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Musicals
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
Christopher Eccleston and Niamh Cusack star in the RSC's production of Macbeth, which transfers to London
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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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Theatre
Shakespeare's As You Like It brings pastoral comedy and gender-swapping to the Open Air Theatre
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Theatre
Michelle Terry shows that Shakespeare can be woke with a gender-blind, race-blind, disability-blind company collaborating on Hamlet and As You Like It
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Theatre
Soak up Shakespearean comedy in the historic surroundings of Westminster Abbey
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Theatre
Director Barrie Rutter revives a lesser known Shakespeare play at The Globe Theatre this summer
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Theatre
Public Acts invites a huge company of Londoners to join professional actors on stage in a community production of Pericles
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Rufus Norris' Macbeth, starring Rory Kinnear and Anne-Marie Duff loses the poetry in a hollow, overdone production
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Best of
Nicholas Hytner directs an atmospheric promenade production of Julius Caesar at The Bridge
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Theatre
The RSC rattle over the Rubicon this winter as Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar comes to the Barbican
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Theatre
Shakespeare's most sensual tragedy heats up the Barbican this winter, as the RSC's Antony and Cleopatra heads to London
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Theatre
Action is eloquence this November as the RSC’s Coriolanus comes to the Barbican as part of the Rome MMXVII season
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Theatre
Blood and revenge are hammering in our heads - the RSC's Titus Andronicus comes to the Barbican
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Opera North's sizzling production of Kiss Me Kate comes to the Coliseum for ten nights only
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Theatre
Kevin McNally steals the show as the ill-fated King Lear in Nancy Heckler's new production of the Shakespearean tragedy
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Theatre
Andrew Scott captivates in Robert Icke's sleek, minimalist Hamlet, transferring to the West End after a sell-out run at the Almeida