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The play’s the thing – but everyone has their own favourite

Letters: Guardian readers share their views of Michael Billington’s Shakespeare rankings

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‘You have to reflect the language to capture people’s souls’: Martina Laird on calypso, patois and the RSC

The former Casualty actor wrote Driftwood – a family drama set against the backdrop of Trinidadian independence – as a private act after reconnecting with her roots. It was like solving a crossword, she says

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The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui review – Mark Gatiss terrifies as Brecht’s fascistic cauliflower racketeer

Gatiss is part Hitler, part Scrooge, part Trump in Seán Linnen’s circus-like production for the RSC

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Walking Shadow by Greg Doran review – Shakespeare’s healing power

After the death of his husband, Antony Sher, the former RSC director embarks on a quest to see every First Folio

The Guardian - UK

‘It’s the same rhetoric today – really frightening’: Mark Gatiss and Placebo on reviving Brecht’s brutal Hitler satire

In these turbulent times, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui has never been more vital, and returns to the stage starring the Sherlock star and with music by the alt-rockers. But, they say, they don’t just want to preach to the choir

The Guardian - UK

Desmond Barrit obituary

Character actor of energetic comic brilliance, notably as Falstaff at the RSC and in Alan Bennett’s The History Boys

The Guardian - UK

A Midsummer Night’s Dream review – a playful, punchy Shakespeare romcom made easy

The Unicorn and RSC’s accessible adaptation is at its best in comic set pieces – even if the pared-down plot still feels cluttered

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Jane Lapotaire death: Tributes paid to ‘truly brilliant’ The Crown and Downton Abbey star

British actor won Tony and Olivier Awards during her prolific career on the stage and screen

The Independent UK

The Crown star Jane Lapotaire dead at 81

Jane Lapotaire - who played Princess Alice of Battenberg in Netflix's The Crown - died aged 81 on March 5.

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Jane Lapotaire obituary

Stage and screen actor hailed for her work with the Royal Shakespeare Company and for her TV role as Marie Curie

The Guardian - UK

The RSC’s music cuts fundamentally diminish our experience of theatre

From Mendelssohn’s scherzo in A Midsummer Night’s Dream to Grieg’s Morning Mood from Peer Gynt, music composed for the theatre was never just ‘incidental’

The Guardian - UK

Dame Harriet Walter to star in all-female production of Julius Caesar for RSC

The play will be part of a new season of shows, which includes an all-male production of As You Like It starring Jonathan Groff.

Evening Standard

Game of Thrones prequel to be staged by the Royal Shakespeare Company

‘Game of Thrones: The Mad King’ will premiere at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre this summer

The Independent UK

Game Of Thrones to be adapted for theatre by Royal Shakespeare Company

The critically acclaimed series will take the stage in Stratford-upon-Avon later this year.

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The Guardian - UK

‘Summer is coming!’: Royal Shakespeare Company to stage epic Game of Thrones prequel

Novelist George RR Martin says RSC is ‘obvious choice’ to put on new play The Mad King, which will open after spring

The Guardian - UK

Andrew Jarvis obituary

Other lives: Actor and drama teacher with a particular focus on Shakespeare

The Guardian - UK

Placebo make theatre debut with score for Brecht production by Royal Shakespeare Company

Alt-rockers will score Hitler allegory The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, with Mark Gatiss in the title role

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A new Henry V is a barometer of our times – what can Shakespeare’s war play tell us amid global chaos?

Revivals of this history play usually reflect the politics of the moment. Now a fresh RSC retelling arrives in a world of instability and fractured alliances

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‘To me, Lady Macbeth sounds like Tina Turner’: the musical mashup about to rock the RSC

In All Is But Fantasy, the fates of Juliet, Lady Macbeth, Cleopatra and more are given a thrilling twist by US writer, director and singer Whitney White. She talks about untimely deaths – and being left speechless by Judi Dench

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‘I fell in love with him on the spot’: Alan Rickman remembered, 10 years after his death

On the anniversary of his death aged 69, stars from Sigourney Weaver to Sharleen Spiteri, Tom Felton to Harriet Walter, remember the wit, charm and endless generosity of one of Britain’s best-loved actors

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Cynthia Erivo is Dracula, Gentleman Jack does ballet and Phil Wang’s mega-tour: theatre, dance and comedy in 2026

Lesley Manville and Aidan Turner unite for Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Michael Sheen launches Welsh National Theatre and Bridget Christie revs up for a return to the stage

Evening Standard

Twelfth Night at the Barbican review: A delightful maximalist feast

4/5 Director Prasanna Puwanarajah’s Shakespeare festivities are striking if a little over-stuffed in places

The Guardian - UK

Susan Todd obituary

Director, actor and a co-founder of Monstrous Regiment, whose work would concentrate on women’s experience

The Guardian - UK

The BFG review – RSC’s big friendly mishmash lacks Matilda’s confidence

This adaptation of the beloved tale about an ogre looks beautiful but does not grow into a giant to rival the company’s hit Roald Dahl musical

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RSC to cut workforce by 11% as it faces ‘perilous situation’

Arts institution will also merge costume departments to be ‘match fit’ after funding cuts and soaring material costs

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