Shakespeare

Dana Rufolo in Antwerp  15 April 2025 I saw the dramatic ballet (or “drambalet” as Prokofiev called it), Romeo +

Sasho Ognenovski in Bulgaria 9 March 2025 The play intertwines three narratives that finally merge into one in an illustration

Jeremy Malies in west London 11 March 2025 “Two sleepy people by dawn’s early light / And too much in

Simon Thomas in South West England 28 February 2025 In only her second production as Artistic Director of Tobacco Factory

Neil Dowden on South Bank 20 February 2025 So, after almost two years of hosting the fabulous, post-Covid money-spinner Guys

Mark Shenton in West London 3 February 2025 The opening line of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night is “If music be the

Jeremy Malies in the City of London 17 December 2024 I’ve witnessed the second scene of A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Jeremy Malies in south-west London 2 December 2024 Orson Welles described Illyria as “a comedy climate where anything can happen”.

Neil Dowden on the South Bank 30 September 2024 Coriolanus is the least known of Shakespeare’s three late Roman tragedies

Neil Dowden on the South Bank 2 September 2024 A hit during last year’s season at the Globe, Sean Holmes’s

Simon Jenner on the South Bank 15 August 2024 “Go to, then. Your considerate stone.” Enobarbus is silenced. Yet here,

Tom Bolton in Stratford-upon-Avon 10 August 2024  Of all the plays William Shakespeare is credited with, Pericles is perhaps the

Simon Jenner on the South Bank 30 June 2024 “He was part of my dream. But then I was part

Neil Dowden on the South Bank 29 May 2024 Richard III is, of course, one of Shakespeare’s most villainous characters

Neil Dowden on the South Bank 8 May 2024 The outdoor season at Shakespeare’s Globe has got off to a

Neil Dowden in the West End 15 April 2024 Robert Icke has made his name creating radical reinterpretations of classic

Neil Dowden in the West End 26 February 2024 First seen at Watford Palace Theatre a year ago, the nationwide

Neil Dowden in north London 19 February 2024 This second major London production of King Lear within a couple of

Jeremy Malies in London Docklands 18 February 2024 “If you try to be in any way spectacular with it, you’re

Jeremy Malies on the South Bank 4 February 2024 Nicholas Hytner once said that every second line in Iago’s speeches

Jeremy Malies in the West End 24 December 2023 Plays set in a rehearsal room as actors prepare is a

Neil Dowden in the West End 22 December 2023 Max Webster’s superbly atmospheric production of Macbeth is ground-breaking in its

Yann Messager reports from Nanterre 10 December 2023 Christophe Rauck’s Richard II is a captivating version. It has gripping and

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

Jeremy Malies in south-east London 30 October 2022   A seldom-performed Shakespeare play by a newish company at a new

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 but,

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

Tom Bolton in the City of London24 November 2021 Like all theatre companies, the Royal Shakespeare Company has experienced a

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

John Russell Taylor on the South Bank and in City of London 7 November 2016 Breeches role or Queen Lear?