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Dysfunctional families and queer desire at the end of the world, in a compelling vision of climate breakdown

This production throws a lot of ideas at Shakespeare’s problematic play but little sticks

Bold, absurdist ideas jostle for attention in Jude Christian’s bemusing new production, turning Shakespeare’s tricky tale into a child’s silly game

The South African soprano on her love of Star Trek, a Stockholm gallery that used to be a squat, and where to find a great negroni in London

Letter: Derek Jacobi and Margo Anderson on how local lore and biographical specificity found in the comedy point to the 17th Earl of Oxford, Edward de Vere, as its writer

Blanche McIntyre’s Midas-touched production is set in the present day and finds delirious comedy in its class divisions

For the second time in as many years, New Zealand’s secondary school English curriculum will be rewritten, a move which has generated disquiet from teachers and academics alike.

All American season 6 episode 11 sees the Miko trial reach a conclusion. Plus, Jordan and Layla make a decision about their wedding. Here's what happened.

Company performing Shakespeare classic formed of 15 members who moved to small Uzhhorod town during war

Exclusive: Bafta-winner to join actors and young asylum seekers in 24-hour fundraising ‘Shakespeare marathon’

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…