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Jude Law has embraced ageing because he's convinced his changing looks have helped him expand the roles he can play onscreen.

Jude Law still has many more theatre roles he would like to take on before he bows out.

The actor, who has died at the age of 90, was renowned for his roles on stage an screen

Yaron Segal's innovation shows promise in treating familial dysautonomia, stroke, and other brain-related conditions with noninvasive technology. ‌

A family reunion unravels with viciousness and humour in Mark O’Rowe’s new play. And Garry Hynes’s searing direction makes Beckett new

Pier 2/3, Sydney, then Arts Centre MelbourneThis stripped-back Bell Shakespeare production, staged in the round, leaves the actors struggling to grab the heartstrings when you can’t see their faces

It is a common reflex to reach for Aristotle’s Poetics to determine what a good tragedy should be. Aristotle says there are good reasons to enjoy a good tragedy, especially if its ergon or telos (its function) works well. This function is to trigger the pleasure (in an audience) of…

This short, snappy work of popular scholarship by Will Tosh, head of research at Shakespeare’s Globe, is a necessary provocation and a highly selective bid to claim our national poet as a queer icon. Fair enough. As Tosh says in his introduction, red-faced heterosexuals have spent centuries explaining away the…

At 53, the actor’s a young Lear, but he delivers a forceful, moving rendition of the doomed monarch

‘Entertainment Tonight’ presents special for the late mega-producer

Spurs manager was Brannagh's guest at a Halloween showing of his production of King Lear