RARE PHOTOS: 22 - The Real Truth

Shakespeare goes pop: the best of the Bard’s work updated on screen

A new season of films celebrates how different directors have found a way to bring Shakespeare’s work forward, from Baz Luhrmann to Derek Jarman

The Guardian - US · Jul 1, 2024

The best theatre to stream this month: Shakespeare v the Tories, Mel C’s dance show and more

This month’s picks include a Starlight Express intro for kids, a rollicking wedding play at the National and an explosive hour of dance

The Guardian - UK · Jul 1, 2024

Supacell star Tosin Cole: ‘Our show highlights many issues that Black people go through’

The 31-year-old ‘Doctor Who’ star has swapped one sci-series for another, and is now playing a delivery man turned superhero in Netflix’s new action-packed drama ‘Supacell’. He tells Lydia Spencer-Elliott about filming the Jay-Z-backed show and learning to mask his insecurities

The Independent UK · Jun 30, 2024

Straight Acting by Will Tosh review – out on stage

A rich study of queer desire in Shakespeare, from cosplay in The Merchant of Venice to gender fluidity in Twelfth Night

The Guardian - UK · Jun 21, 2024

Bridgerton’s Jonathan Bailey to play Richard II on London stage

Nicholas Hytner has shared details of his forthcoming production, which will give the actor his highest profile Shakespeare role to date

The Guardian - UK · Jun 21, 2024

Private Rites by Julia Armfield review – in deep water

Dysfunctional families and queer desire at the end of the world, in a compelling vision of climate breakdown

The Guardian - UK · Jun 20, 2024

The Taming of The Shrew at Shakespeare’s Globe review: an interesting idea is lost in conceptual soup

This production throws a lot of ideas at Shakespeare’s problematic play but little sticks

Evening Standard · Jun 19, 2024

The Taming of the Shrew review – full of foolishness, low on laughs

Bold, absurdist ideas jostle for attention in Jude Christian’s bemusing new production, turning Shakespeare’s tricky tale into a child’s silly game

The Guardian - UK · Jun 19, 2024

On my radar: Golda Schultz’s cultural highlights

The South African soprano on her love of Star Trek, a Stockholm gallery that used to be a squat, and where to find a great negroni in London

The Guardian - UK · Jun 15, 2024

The Merry Wives of Windsor offers strong evidence that Shakespeare was not its author

Letter: Derek Jacobi and Margo Anderson on how local lore and biographical specificity found in the comedy point to the 17th Earl of Oxford, Edward de Vere, as its writer

The Guardian - UK · Jun 13, 2024