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  • 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
    Theatre
    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
    ReviewTheatre
    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
    Media
    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
    ReviewTheatre
    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
    Theatre
    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
    ReviewTheatre
    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
    ReviewTheatre
    Imperium, Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon — an expert adaptation

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

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  • Tuesday, 12 September, 2017
    ObituaryUK 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
    ReviewTheatre
    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
    ReviewTheatre
    A spellbinding Tempest at the Barbican, London

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

  • Monday, 19 June, 2017
    Arts
    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
    ReviewTheatre
    Salomé, Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon — flamboyant

    A bold, gay reading of Wilde’s drama

  • Saturday, 20 May, 2017
    Kate Maltby
    Protests push vital 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
    ReviewMusic
    Shakespeare double bill, Theatre Royal, Haymarket

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

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

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

  • Friday, 28 October, 2016
    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
    ReviewArts
    The Rover, Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon

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

  • Thursday, 28 July, 2016
    Companies
    BP renews arts funding despite protests

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

  • Tuesday, 7 June, 2016
    ReviewArts
    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
  • Wednesday, 13 April, 2016
    Life & Arts
    Songs in the key of Shakespeare

    The playwright’s musical connections will be celebrated in this year’s Shakespeare 400 anniversary

  • Tuesday, 22 March, 2016
    Private equity
    ‘Master of universe’ to head National Theatre

    Former boss of private equity firm Permira is no stranger to drama

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