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The Handlebards’ Much Ado About Nothing delivers on everything

I am aware that adaptations have been with us for centuries and that Shakespeare borrowed his best plots. But that doesn't stop this book lover from being suspicious when movies and plays glom onto my favorite titles.

This year's festival will showcase troupes renowned for their exceptional renditions of Shakespeare's timeless works

The Skirrid Mountain Inn is synonymous with stories of hauntings and paranormal activity. Owner Geoff Fiddler told us what it's like to own a pub believed to have ghostly residents.

Melbourne town hall, Rising festivalJulian Rosefeldt’s magnificent and exhausting film, starring the Oscar winner and Giancarlo Esposito, reverts to evasive surrealist flourishes just as it threatens to become truly angry

From Cabaret to Streetcar, the West End’s hottest director Rebecca Frecknall has a reputation for finding leads who put bums on seats. ‘I just go on my gut,’ she says

“Many critics sigh at the prospect of yet another ‘Dream’, Shakespeare’s most accessible and most performed play,” said Fiona Mountford in The i Paper. Yet for me the play – a “joyful skip through the Athenian forest, packed as it is with errant lovers, mischievous fairies and some joyously bad…

Erica Whyman said she cared ‘very passionately’ about having promoted the RSC as a truly national theatre company.

Jesse Armstrong’s blackly comic drama, which has the most Emmy nominations of any show this year, came to an end in May after four sensational seasons. It wasn’t just a compelling piece of television, writes Louis Chilton – it was a towering artistic achievement