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The latest winter season at Shakespeare's Globe will include a major playwright who's never appeared in the Swanamaker before, but ...

Plays can take a while to go through development and writing and get to production, often ending up with similar ideas making it to the sta...

Of course, Vassa isn’t the original title. The full title is Vassa Matter You? (Hey!) Gotta No Respec’? The last time Mike Bartlett w...

Which five people, living or dead, real or fictional, would you invite to your dream dinner party? To most people that’s a creaky old conv...

Following the transatlantic success of Wolf Hall and Bring Up The Bodies , it's not a big surprise if the RSC wants to replicate it b...

I know people who were hoping to skip the Royal Court's Weekly Rep season (when you're a theatre geek there's enough shows to ...

The main event in the Royal Court's Open Court season is a six-week repertory, in which a company of actors takes on a different play ...

There's many legendary speeches in Shakespeare, which must be nerve-wracking for any actor. Most of them turn up well into the play, a...

When you go to as much theatre as I do, certain Shakespeare plays do keep cropping up. Two Lear s in a year wouldn't be that unusual b...