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At two hours with no interval, the actor-director’s production hurtles past at such speed that the depths of the play are too rarely realised

A star with incredible presence, Gambon brought heft and delicacy, mischief and feeling, to the stage and screen

A disco king hits the dancefloor, Beatrice and Benedick’s romcom gets a feminist framing and Lear faces dystopia as the revered rep company returns in full force

Theatre collective Unseemly Women brought King Lear to Prescot's Shakespeare North Playhouse

Fearless, sharply intelligent and sometimes caustic, Glenda Jackson, who has died aged 87, “had a career unmatched by any of her contemporaries”, said Michael Billington in The Guardian. From 1957, she enjoyed huge success on film (she won two Oscars) and on stage; then, in 1992, she gave it all…

There was never anything shrinking about the confidence Glenda Jackson projected on stage and screen in her heyday. Afflicted with an uncommon common sense, her characters were defined by their sharp intelligence, independence and, yes, irritability. They were nobody’s fool, even when they wound up with the short end of…

Coronation Street’s Christine Mackie gives a passionate performance as the raging patriarch in a production that has moments of invention but too little clarity about the power relationships between the characters

An addiction centre says the dynastic struggles of the TV show are indicative of struggles faced by powerful families

The final episode of Succession is upon us. Questions remain around who will be in control and what the cost will be.

Elizabeth’s crowning seemed like a new dawn. But the reign of Charles begins in a kingdom under a cloud

While we are reluctant to compare Donald Trump to the fictional characters of Shakespeare given the Bard’s skill, subtlety and wit, the ex-president’s rambling Tuesday night seethe-a-thon from the Donald J. Trump Grand Ballroom at Mar-a-Lago had all the elements of King Lear’s Act III rage on the hearth. If…