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Actor Brian Cox has described J.S. Bach as a "forgotten composer," although given it's only a few years since SSRB played him...

Last year, like this year, a couple of my planned theatre trips outside of That London got scuppered by rail strikes; one of them was Blanc...

What better way to mark the Coronation than with Shakespeare's late romance about a forgettable king with a dead first wife and a panto...

The Phantom Menace of Shakespeare's Plantagenet history cycle, Henry VI Part 1  is the unloved prequel that seems to exist mainly to c...

I don't think it's a question of if, or even when someone does an overtly Boris Johnson-themed production of Richard III , it's...

Southwark Playhouse puts comic books on stage again although we're in significantly darker territory than Usagi Yojimbo with Marielle...

Best-remembered today as England's first female professional writer (although it turns out in the 19th Century her name was a euphemis...

I saw my first Shakespeare production aged 15, an RSC production of Macbeth which, like the company's entire ensemble seasons in thos...

Two years ago in the Swan, the RSC had a hit with a revival of A Life of Galileo , which gloried in the enduring enthusiasm of the scienti...

The latest former RSC regular making a return to Stratford-upon-Avon is David Troughton, in the title role of Thomas Dekker's The Shoe...

This Globe season has taken us  to Troy , Egypt and Jerusalem , so it's in keeping that their final Shakespeare production of the yea...

Peter Pan gets a feminist makeover from Ella Hickson in the latest RSC family show, but there's also a definite hint of Philip Pullma...

Edinburgh shows are wasting no time in coming down to London this year, and first up we have a double bill from writer Jamie Wilkes, who t...