Norwich Film Festival has announced a special screening of the Oscar-winning film Shakespeare in Love for its opening night, bringing a touch of cinematic history and local heritage to the big screen.
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Best-selling historical author Philippa Gregory will make her playwrighting debut in a play co-produced by Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds.
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Political despatches are no longer quite as bloody as that which befell Caesar in Shakespeare’s Roman tragedy, but we have certainly seen several ego-inflated leaders in recent times.
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There is always a temptation with Shakespeare to try to do something different: this version of A Midsummer Night’s Dream nominally sets the action around the Suffragette movement of the early 20th century.
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A rose by any other name may smell as sweet, but does calling something a rose make it beautiful? This production claims to play with the Shakespeare favourite’s setting and genders – so does it still work?
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The Lord Chamberlain’s Men returned to Norwich Cathedral with a pacey and entertaining – but unprovoking – rendition of Shakespeare’s Macbeth.
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The National Theatre has announced the next production to feature in its NT At Home season of free streamed plays.
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London’s Shakespeare Globe has become the latest theatre to offer free performances online.
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If you’re going to mess with Shakespeare,
you need to be sure of your footing.
Shakespeare can sometimes feel a little distant and predictable – they all get married, or they all die, and in between we have some tricky language – but Lucy Phelps’ stunningly energetic performance means this time we see it all anew.
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In what is a heavily-contested field, The
Tempest is one of Shakespeare’s craziest plays.
Despite a mafia-themed opening this
production of Shakespeare’s comedy owes more stylistically to a Hitchcock
thriller than the Godfather.
Verona is anything but fair in this dark and challenging reimagining of the tale of two young lovers.
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With Storm Gareth raging outside, there wasn’t much need for simulated wind and rain to open this oppressive and claustrophobic version of Macbeth, but still it came.
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Macbeth was one of the first plays I saw as a child, and apparently so enticed me that I nearly climbed inside the witches’ cauldron.
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