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Having clawed her way off my list of creatives I avoid like the plague with a decent Macbeth and a very good King Lear , Yaël Farber now m...

Leontes (Sergo Vares) is the king of Sicilia, whose life of privilege, happy marriage and lifelong friendship with Bohemian king Polixenes ...

The RSC's a funny old company, isn't it? At one time considered downright avant-garde, in the last four decades its reputation has ...

Time for the second “Emilia” play in the Globe’s summer season, although as the Emilia (Zora Bishop) in The Winter’s Tale is a lady-in-wa...

After a couple of years away Cheek by Jowl finally return to London, and with their English-speaking company, with a rather odd production...

Of the new BBC radio adaptations of Shakespeare for the 400th anniversary of his death, I probably have the least the say about David Hunt...

The Swanamaker's first all-Shakespeare season opened, very successfully, with two of his least-performed plays, but its second half br...

The latest director to launch his own West End residency is Kenneth Branagh, and he promises to stick around until the end and not get di...

Lucy Bailey's history at the RSC seems mainly to involve directing some of my least favourite Shakespeare plays. And Jo Stone-Fewings...

The first time I saw The Winter's Tale , at the RSC some time in the '90s, I remember really enjoying it, but subsequent productio...