Shakespeare

Jeremy Malies in the West End 3 November 2023 Still occasionally exhilarated by memories of Sir Kenneth Branagh’s perfect Macbeth

Jeremy Malies in west London 9 October 2023 “I am not what I am …” Iago tells us in an

Neil Dowden on the South Bank 12 September 2023 The final show in the Globe’s summer season – which has

Neil Dowden on the South Bank 12 August 2023 Bad luck may come in threes, but the “unluckiest” play Macbeth

Jeremy Malies in north London 16 June 2023 Rebecca Frecknall is too experienced and reflective to be tempted into a

Jeremy Malies in central London (Notting Hill Gate) 15 June 2023 It will always be a cruel play in which

Jeremy Malies on the Southbank 24 May 2023 On her own website, Pentabus Theatre artistic director Elle While is quick

Simon Jenner on the Southbank 23 May 2023 With both this production of The Comedy of Errors, directed by Sean

Neil Dowden on the South Bank 5 May 2023   Jack Thorne’s entertaining new play The Motive and the Cue

Jeremy Malies in Kingston, London 2 May 2023   This is a concept production based on a pretext that soon

Tom Bolton in south London 18 March 2023 It is an unusual Macbeth that comes to life with the Porter’s

Neil Dowden on the South Bank 26 February 2023   Shakespeare’s Globe’s new production of The Winter’s Tale marks the start

Mark Shenton on the South Bank 23 February 2023   On consecutive nights this week, theatre travellers have been summonsed

Jeremy Malies in Surrey 10 February 2023   “There’s no way back / Move right outta here baby!” Perhaps Liz

Tom Bolton in south London 3 February 2023   Jude Christian’s new production of Shakespeare’s least respected play, Titus Andronicus,

Dana Rufolo in Luxembourg 31 January 2023   Songes d’une nuit…, an interpretation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, developed as

Jeremy Malies in west London 29 January 2023   Frantic Assembly’s version of Othello, previously staged in 2008 and 2014,

Neil Dowden in the West End 19th December 2022   The first in-house production @sohoplace is an engaging, innovative, and

Maggie Rose in Lombardy 2 December 2022   In November I caught Shakespeare’s The Tempest at Milan’s Piccolo Teatro, in

Simon Jenner on the South Bank 1st December 2022   “Where should Othello go?” One of the lines cut from

Simon Thomas in Bristol 23 October 2022   As the UK’s oldest continually working theatre, Bristol Old Vic can boast

Neil Dowden on the South Bank 4 August 2022 Shakespeare’s last solo play The Tempest – with Prospero’s renunciation of

Jeremy Malies in Surrey 26 July 2022 It’s a magical conclusion to Shakespeare’s career as a writer of plays on

Neil Dowden on the South Bank 24 July 2022 Hot on the heels of revivals of Much Ado About Nothing

Simon Thomas in Somerset 20 July 2022 Coming just days after the death of Peter Brook, the opening of Deborah

Neil Dowden on the South Bank 26 June 2022 Kathryn Hunter played King Lear in a landmark production directed by

16 May 2022 Jeremy Malies on the South Bank “O, that a man might know / The end of this

Tom Bolton on the South Bank 13 May 2022 The memory of repeated lockdowns may be fading now, but the

Tom Bolton on the South Bank 10 March 2022   The Merchant of Venice is seen as a problematic play

Jeremy Malies in Surrey11 February 2022 A boozy Elsinore this – any critic (and we’re not noted for sobriety) playing

Jeremy Malies in Surrey 7 February 2018   The feud between the two families in Romeo and Juliet often tempts