Macbeth (An Undoing) at the Rose Theatre review: the sound and fury drowns out its flashes of inspiration Something meandering this way comes Evening Standard · Mar 13, 2024
5 best movies like 'Anyone But You' to watch right now More movies like the surprise smash hit romantic comedy to watch, including "The Proposal" and "Much Ado About Nothing" Tom’s Guide · Mar 13, 2024
Romeo and Juliet review – beatboxing lovers in full flow A hip-hop take on the tragedy finds the feud blowing up on social media and the balcony scene remixed for FaceTime but it lacks pathos The Guardian - UK · Mar 12, 2024
Laverne Cox commits blunder on Oscars red carpet as she hands microphone to deaf actress Marlee Matlin Cox was hosting E!’s red carpet coverage Evening Standard · Mar 11, 2024
Oscars 2024: Al Pacino makes huge blunder while announcing best picture winner Social media users could not get their heads around the gaffe, saying it ‘couldn’t have been more chaotic or confusing’ Evening Standard · Mar 11, 2024
Ralph Heimans on painting the Queen, Kevin Rudd, Judi Dench and more See the exhibition at Canberra's National Portrait Gallery. The Canberra Times · Mar 8, 2024
Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal to lead Othello on Broadway Stage and screen actors will take on the roles of Othello and Iago in Shakespeare’s tragedy, first Broadway staging since 1982 The Guardian - US · Mar 6, 2024
Edward Bond obituary One of the most important British dramatists of the 20th century who was unafraid of taking on the establishment over censorship The Guardian - UK · Mar 5, 2024
Edward Bond: a phenomenal talent who upturned theatre with his explosive plays One of the greatest dramatists of the 20th century, Bond – who has died aged 89 – confronted audiences with ‘the crisis in the human species’ The Guardian - UK · Mar 5, 2024
Murderer, manipulator… or not that bad at all? The reframing of Richard III Five hundred years after his death, the monarch most reviled by Shakespeare is still courting controversy. A new play and documentary aim to change how he is seen The Guardian - UK · Mar 3, 2024
‘Without craft, an actor is a liability’: how row over teaching standards is causing a rift in UK theatre industry Royal Shakespeare Company steps into dispute at Guildhall drama school after senior teacher quits in protest over methods The Guardian - UK · Mar 3, 2024
Netflix Wins Lawsuit Over 13 Reasons Why, on Statute of Limitations Grounds The plaintiffs claimed that 15-year-old Bella Herndon committed suicide because of the film. Reason · Feb 27, 2024
Netflix’s Avatar cast explain why their live-action characters are so much more than a "carbon copy" of the Nickelodeon series "It’s kind of the same reason why people do Shakespeare over and over again, you know?" Total Film · Feb 22, 2024
Royal Family Hosts Shakespeare Celebration With Star-Studded Performances The Royal Family's celebration of Shakespeare with the Queen and esteemed personalities highlighted the enduring influence of the Bard's works on contempor... Top News · Feb 21, 2024
The Guardian - UK · Feb 14, 2024 Jenny Baynes obituary Other lives: English teacher who encouraged disaffected teenagers to engage with Shakespeare, poetry and drama
The Guardian - UK · Feb 14, 2024 A Midsummer Night’s Dream review – characters mash, worlds invert and flames burst from fingers Eleanor Rhode’s ravishing fusion of flamboyancy, surrealism and raucous fun rouses audiences in a youthful, energetic riot
The Guardian - UK · Feb 12, 2024 The film’s the thing: Ian McKellen’s new Hamlet shows the screen can outdo the stage Sean Mathias has reimagined his 2021 production of Shakespeare’s tragedy as a movie, inventively using Windsor’s Theatre Royal and capturing McKellen’s subtle performance
The Guardian - UK · Feb 11, 2024 Scrap trigger warnings for theatre audiences, says Ralph Fiennes Audiences should be ‘shocked and disturbed’ by the impact of theatre, says Schindler’s List and Harry Potter actor
The Guardian - UK · Feb 6, 2024 Tom Holland leaps from Spider-Man to Shakespeare’s Romeo in West End Jamie Lloyd will direct the star in ‘a pulsating new vision of the immortal tale of wordsmiths, rhymers, lovers and fighters’
Salon · Feb 5, 2024 Trump betrays the Ukrainians again Republicans could have ended their Trump problem when he misused his office to support Putin the first time
The Times of India · Feb 3, 2024 Elon Musk meets his match in Shakespeare-quoting Delaware Judge When Elon Musk tried to back out of buying Twitter Inc in 2022, Delaware Chancery Court Judge Kathaleen St Jude McCormick reined him in, with one ruling after another, until he finally relented and closed the $44 billion deal.
The Guardian - UK · Feb 2, 2024 Gregory Doran to finally direct 36th play from Shakespeare’s First Folio – for student production The former RSC director, now visiting professor of contemporary theatre at Oxford University, will stage The Two Gentlemen of Verona
The Guardian - UK · Jan 31, 2024 Non-disabled Richard III actor to press on despite calls for recast Michelle Terry, who is also the Globe’s artistic director, says she will not alter her physicality for role
The Guardian - UK · Jan 31, 2024 Othello review – Shakespeare’s tragedy interrogated in New Scotland Yard Ola Ince’s production is set within a hostile modern police force and has DCI Othello’s unconscious portrayed by a second actor
Evening Standard · Jan 31, 2024 Othello at Shakespeare's Globe review: arresting update set in the toxic Met Police feels horribly credible This intimate, powerful production transposed from Venice to the Met in London refreshes the play and feels horribly credible