Royal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonProspero is reimagined as a conductor in this superbly orchestrated version of Shakespeare’s tragicomedyKenneth Branagh is said to have played 35 Shakespearean parts, albeit...
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Read MoreAcclaimed stage and screen actor has taken part in Washington DC’s Folger Shakespeare Library residency program during a troubling time for the CapitolAddressing an audience at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington,...
Read MoreAntony and Cleopatra? Exhausting. Lear? Magnificent but flawed. Hamlet? Limitless. For Shakespeare’s birthday, the Guardian’s former theatre critic ranks all the plays***35 Continue...
Read MoreThe actor has said Shakespeare’s language can be understood ‘in the body’. I couldn’t disagree moreI want to believe in reincarnation because I want to come back as Paul Mescal. What it must be like to be...
Read MoreThe dispute over pay at this great national institution gets to the heart of our misplaced prioritiesYou know a country by its values. By what a country values. And it turns out that what a country values can change over time....
Read MoreToronto film festival: The two stars are knockouts in Chloé Zhao’s poignant adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s 2020 novel with a stirring tearjerker endingMaggie O’Farrell’s lauded 2020 novel...
Read MoreAfter surviving the whirlwind of Doctor Who, the actor returns to the stage in ‘horny Elizabethan drama’ Born With Teeth. He and co-star Edward Bluemel discuss bust lips, hot pants and queering the Bard’s story...
Read More‘There is a big need for theatre to work with existential problems,’ says translator, as Shakespeare productions boom across UkraineThe Ukrainian Shakespeare festival in the city of Ivano-Frankivsk did not open with...
Read MoreAmerican actor starred in films including The Great White Hope and won two Tony awards in prolific stage careerJames Earl Jones, the actor whose beautifully sonorous tones gave voice to Star Wars’ principal villain Darth...
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