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Tried and Tested
Theatre
A remarkable, chilling performance from Ralph Fiennes makes the Almeida's otherwise straight production compelling
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Features
Why we love The Hollow Crown: Shakespeare on screen
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Book Now
Classical Music
Supporter of young musicians, Samling celebrates Shakespeare with music for the seven ages of man
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Features
Benedict Cumberbatch and Sophie Okonedo are magnificent in the BBC's Shakespeare adaptation
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Tried and Tested
Theatre
New Globe artistic director Emma Rice begins with a bang: Beyonce, Bowie, Bollywood & cabaret make for a drastically different Midsummer Night's Dream
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Must See
We review Upstart Crow, BBC Two's raucous new sitcom based on the life of Shakespeare, as played by David Mitchell
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Interview
To celebrate Shakespeare 400, Simon Callow dicusses his personal highlights of the bard, the limitless potential of the plays, and his favourite Shakespearean word
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Features
Starring Tom Sturridge, Sophie Okonedo, Judi Dench and Benedict Cumberbatch, The Hollow Crown series two is out this spring. We take a sneak peek at the first two episodes
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We love
Cinema
This 4K restoration will bring a new audience to Kurosawa's King Lear-inspired masterpiece
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Tried and Tested
Theatre
Scena Mundi theatre company scale down Shakespeare for a performance in a church
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Tried and Tested
Theatre
Movers and shakers Filter Theatre bring their raucous reinterpretation of Shakespeare's comedy back to the Lyric after runaway success in 2012
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Tried and Tested
Theatre
Dominic Dromgoole ends his time at the Globe with magic, shipwreck and a fitting farewell to theatre
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Features
Rising star director Michael Longhurst tells us about switching from bold new writing to traditional Shakespeare
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In the Know
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.
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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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Tried and Tested
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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Tried and Tested
Theatre
Shakespeare's late play gets a merry makeover at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse
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Tried and Tested
Theatre
A tour-de-force of theatre talents dazzle in the first of Kenneth Branagh's plays at the Garrick
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Tried and Tested
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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Tried and Tested
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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Tried and Tested
Theatre
Trevor Nunn brings Shakespeare's histories to life with epic drama in this engrossing triliogy of plays
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Essential
Dance
Love and despair know no bounds in the Royal Ballet’s Romeo and Juliet, Kenneth Macmillan’s ageless tragedy.
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Essential
Cinema
Marion Cotillard and Michael Fassbender star in Justin Kurzel's modern adaptation of Shakespeare's dark tragedy.
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Interview
Things to do
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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In the Know
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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We love
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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Essential
Theatre
Shakespeare's lesser-known play is brought emphatically to life by Simon Godwin, director, for the Globe new Justice and Mercy season 2015.
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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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In the Know
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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We love
Theatre
Shakespeare comes inside this winter with a season of the late plays in the candlelit surroundings of the Wanamaker playhouse.
