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Fat Ham review – Pulitzer-winning Hamlet revision hits Broadway

James Ijames’s electrifying take on Shakespeare’s classic, with a Black queer man at its centre, makes for a smart update

The Guardian - US · Apr 13, 2023

‘Explicitly queer and trans’: the 1580s play that inspired Shakespeare’s cross-dressing love plots

John Lyly’s long-forgotten Galatea – featuring gods, mortals and a highly elastic approach to gender and sex – is being revived at the Brighton festival. We meet the team behind it

The Guardian - UK · Apr 12, 2023

Richard III in Liverpool is perfect even if you don't like Shakespeare

Bridgerton's Adjoa Andoh directs and takes the lead role in the production

Liverpool Echo · Apr 12, 2023

Can kids see ‘Mrs. Doubtfire’? How DeSantis’ anti-drag war is affecting the performing arts

MIAMI — Before there was “RuPaul’s Drag Race” and drag brunch in Wynwood, there was Shakespeare.

Miami Herald · Apr 6, 2023

Commentary: Our shameful national fatalism on guns

“Murder most foul,” cries the ghost of Hamlet’s father to explain his own killing in Shakespeare’s play.

Tribune News Service · Mar 31, 2023

Alison Steadman: ‘We filmed the sex scene in the New Forest, so it was quite prickly’

The actor on working with Dennis Potter, channelling real life in Abigail’s Party and a groundbreaking lesbian snog

The Guardian - UK · Mar 30, 2023

Searching for Juliet by Sophie Duncan review – the many faces of a heroine

An engaging guide to Shakespeare’s most famous female role – and how it has been misread and misplayed for centuries

The Guardian - UK · Mar 30, 2023

Leaps of joy

Presented in collaboration with the Tourism Authority of Thailand and B.Grimm, the Royal Bangkok Symphony Orchestra continued their wonderfully varied 2023 concert season at the Thailand Cultural Centre earlier this month with a programme devoted entirely to the incomparable genius of German composer Felix Mendelssohn.

Bangkok Post · Mar 29, 2023

The Winter’s Tale review: jarring Shakespeare's Globe production lacks warmth

The Winter’s Tale is one of Shakespeare’s great “hospitality plays” – a tragicomedy about what goes wrong when a guest outstays their welcome.

The Conversation · Mar 28, 2023

'Great Expectations' review: A dismal remodel of a Charles Dickens tale

FX, in partnership with the BBC, has made a dreary, dismal and not very Dickensian miniseries out of Charles Dickens' "Great Expectations." And while that seems to be in some measure the point, it is, all the same, dreary and dismal and does not count so much as an adaptation…

Los Angeles Times · Mar 27, 2023