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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

Evening Standard · Dec 22, 2025

Susan Todd obituary

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

The Guardian - UK · Dec 10, 2025

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

The Guardian - UK · Dec 10, 2025

Helen Mirren ‘unbelievably excited’ to help launch RSC’s Shakespeare curriculum

The curriculum is a teaching and learning platform that is free for all state and Send schools.

Evening Standard · Nov 12, 2025

‘I really enjoyed it’: new RSC curriculum brings Shakespeare’s works to life in UK classrooms

Starting with Macbeth, online platform using rehearsal-based teaching methods aims to transform study of the Bard

The Guardian - UK · Nov 12, 2025

Macbeth review – a terrifying lock-in with bloodied, boozed-up gangsters

Daniel Raggett’s audacious RSC production sets the play in a Glaswegian pub full of thugs and has a Landlady Macbeth running the show

The Guardian - UK · Oct 22, 2025

Microphones are weakening actors’ voices

Letters:Eugene O’Hare reflects on the increasingly ubiquitous use of microphones on stage

The Guardian - UK · Oct 21, 2025

Scrooge gets a hip-hop spin and the RSC does the BFG: 20 of the best UK stage shows this Christmas

From musical versions of Pinocchio, Treasure Island and Sherlock Holmes to a comedy about banana-loving beach-dwellers … dive into our selection box of festive theatre

The Guardian - UK · Oct 16, 2025

Actors trained during pandemic lack vocal power and range, says RSC leader

Daniel Evans says young drama graduates who learned voice work online missed out on the physical presence of theatre training

The Guardian - UK · Oct 14, 2025

John Woodvine obituary

Actor who played senior police officers on TV and delighted critics with his Falstaff for the English Shakespeare Company

The Guardian - UK · Oct 13, 2025