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Theatre
Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream in London for little ones this May half term
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Theatre
A remarkable, chilling performance from Ralph Fiennes makes the Almeida's otherwise straight production compelling
Features
Why we love The Hollow Crown: Shakespeare on screen
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Classical Music
Supporter of young musicians, Samling celebrates Shakespeare with music for the seven ages of man
Features
Benedict Cumberbatch and Sophie Okonedo are magnificent in the BBC's Shakespeare adaptation
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Theatre
New Globe artistic director Emma Rice begins with a bang: Beyonce, Bowie, Bollywood & cabaret make for a drastically different Midsummer Night's Dream
Must See
We review Upstart Crow, BBC Two's raucous new sitcom based on the life of Shakespeare, as played by David Mitchell
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
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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Cinema
This 4K restoration will bring a new audience to Kurosawa's King Lear-inspired masterpiece
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Theatre
Scena Mundi theatre company scale down Shakespeare for a performance in a church
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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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Theatre
Dominic Dromgoole ends his time at the Globe with magic, shipwreck and a fitting farewell to theatre
Features
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.
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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
Essential
Dance
Love and despair know no bounds in the Royal Ballet’s Romeo and Juliet, Kenneth Macmillan’s ageless tragedy.
Essential
Cinema
Marion Cotillard and Michael Fassbender star in Justin Kurzel's modern adaptation of Shakespeare's dark tragedy.
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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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