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    • Thursday, 21 July, 2022
      ReviewTheatre
      Much Ado About Nothing is now popping up everywhere

      The National Theatre’s new production is the latest to tackle Shakespeare’s sorrow-stained comedy

    • Wednesday, 15 June, 2022
      InterviewTheatre
      Theatre director Gregory Doran: ‘In Richard III you see a whole society brutalised by war’

      The RSC leader on staging the play with a disabled actor in the title role, the loss of his husband Antony Sher and stepping down after 10 years

    • Wednesday, 2 October, 2019
      Arts
      RSC brings curtain down on BP sponsorship

      Theatre group cites ‘strength of feeling’ among young people over climate change

    • Friday, 5 October, 2018
      Life & Arts
      The Bard in Beijing: how Shakespeare is subverting China

      Forty years after the lifting of Mao’s ban, the plays herald a new kind of cultural revolution

    • Thursday, 20 September, 2018
      ReviewArts
      Tartuffe, Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon — biting satire

      Molière’s comedy is successfully transposed to a Muslim family in present-day Birmingham

    • Tuesday, 28 August, 2018
      ReviewLife & Arts
      Tamburlaine, Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon — iambic verse and buckets of blood

      There’s stylised violence, but Michael Boyd’s staging focuses on the high-flown rhetoric of Marlowe’s drama

    • Tuesday, 10 July, 2018
      US & Canadian companies
      Marquee launches ‘Netflix for the arts’

      Company to bring visual and performing arts shows to subscribers in UK, US and Canada

    • Wednesday, 4 July, 2018
      ReviewLife & Arts
      Miss Littlewood, Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon — a tale of two Stratfords

      This Joan Littlewood bio-musical is informative, but doesn’t do justice to her groundbreaking work

    • Friday, 16 March, 2018
      Life & Arts
      The forgotten women of Restoration comedy

      Why has it taken 300 years to revive a bold and mischievous female-centric play by Mary Pix?

    • Thursday, 8 March, 2018
      ReviewLife & Arts
      Macbeth, National Theatre (Olivier), London — stars survive unusual filleting

      Rory Kinnear and Anne-Marie Duff excel in Rufus Norris’s nipped and tucked rendering

    • Friday, 8 December, 2017
      ReviewLife & Arts
      Imperium, Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon — an expert adaptation

      Robert Harris’s Roman trilogy of novels is brought to the stage by Mike Poulton

    • Tuesday, 12 September, 2017
      ObituaryLife & Arts
      Director and impresario Sir Peter Hall dies at 86

      RSC founder and National Theatre director celebrated as ‘great figure’ of British theatre

    • Tuesday, 11 July, 2017
      ReviewLife & Arts
      Queen Anne, Theatre Royal Haymarket, London — intelligent and enjoyable

      Two fascinating and enterprising women are at the heart of Helen Edmundson’s history play

    • Friday, 7 July, 2017
      ReviewLife & Arts
      A spellbinding Tempest at the Barbican, London

      Digital wizardry and terrific performances create a moving production of Shakespeare’s play

    • Monday, 19 June, 2017
      Theatre
      Royal Shakespeare Company wants benefactors in on the act

      Arts sponsorship has a fresh twist: adopt a character in a play

    • Sunday, 11 June, 2017
      ReviewLife & Arts
      Salomé, Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon — flamboyant

      A bold, gay reading of Wilde’s drama

    • Saturday, 20 May, 2017
      Kate Maltby
      Protests push much-needed philanthropy away from the arts

      Government cuts have continued unrelentingly over the past seven years

    • Sunday, 26 March, 2017
      ReviewArts
      Julius Caesar/Antony & Cleopatra, Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon — demonstrative

      Strengths and weaknesses in the RSC’s productions of two Roman plays

    • Monday, 19 December, 2016
      ReviewLife & Arts
      Shakespeare double bill, Theatre Royal, Haymarket, London: review

      There’s merriment in these two comedies — but also the shadow of uncertainty

    • Friday, 18 November, 2016
      ReviewLife & Arts
      The Tempest, Stratford-upon-Avon — ‘Magical’

      State-of-the-art stagecraft meets a career-best performance by Simon Russell Beale

    • Friday, 28 October, 2016
      Life & Arts
      RSC to translate all Shakespeare’s plays into Mandarin

      Universal themes will resonate with locals, says the project’s director

    • Monday, 19 September, 2016
      ReviewLife & Arts
      The Rover, Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon: ‘Irresistible’

      RSC’s glorious revival of Aphra Behn’s subversive 1677 Restoration romp is ripe with wit and audacity

    • Thursday, 28 July, 2016
      Energy sector
      BP renews arts sponsorship despite protests

      British Museum, National Portrait Gallery, Royal Opera House and Royal Shakespeare Company boosted

    • Tuesday, 7 June, 2016
      ReviewLife & Arts
      The Alchemist, Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon — review

      Ben Jonson’s farce is ripe with inventively vulgar language

    • Thursday, 21 April, 2016
      World
      A lampost given to Stratford by the people of Israel
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