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The National Theatre’s new production is the latest to tackle Shakespeare’s sorrow-stained comedy
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
Theatre group cites ‘strength of feeling’ among young people over climate change
Forty years after the lifting of Mao’s ban, the plays herald a new kind of cultural revolution
Molière’s comedy is successfully transposed to a Muslim family in present-day Birmingham
There’s stylised violence, but Michael Boyd’s staging focuses on the high-flown rhetoric of Marlowe’s drama
Company to bring visual and performing arts shows to subscribers in UK, US and Canada
This Joan Littlewood bio-musical is informative, but doesn’t do justice to her groundbreaking work
Why has it taken 300 years to revive a bold and mischievous female-centric play by Mary Pix?
Rory Kinnear and Anne-Marie Duff excel in Rufus Norris’s nipped and tucked rendering
Robert Harris’s Roman trilogy of novels is brought to the stage by Mike Poulton
RSC founder and National Theatre director celebrated as ‘great figure’ of British theatre
Two fascinating and enterprising women are at the heart of Helen Edmundson’s history play
Digital wizardry and terrific performances create a moving production of Shakespeare’s play
Arts sponsorship has a fresh twist: adopt a character in a play
A bold, gay reading of Wilde’s drama
Government cuts have continued unrelentingly over the past seven years
Strengths and weaknesses in the RSC’s productions of two Roman plays
There’s merriment in these two comedies — but also the shadow of uncertainty
State-of-the-art stagecraft meets a career-best performance by Simon Russell Beale
Universal themes will resonate with locals, says the project’s director
RSC’s glorious revival of Aphra Behn’s subversive 1677 Restoration romp is ripe with wit and audacity
British Museum, National Portrait Gallery, Royal Opera House and Royal Shakespeare Company boosted
Ben Jonson’s farce is ripe with inventively vulgar language
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