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The Bard understood folly and intrigue. With Boris Johnson comparing himself to Othello, he’s also the best way for us to read the present

Whenever I’m forced to watch Shakespeare I’ll always root for the woman no matter how loathsome she’s supposed to be. Lord help me, but I love an untamed shrew. So though I know this opinion to be wrong, I’m glad Carrie Johnson survived the week. It seems the Prime Minister…

The 47th by Mike Bartlett stars Bertie Carvel as the ex-president making attempt to regain the White House

Theatre company’s outreach scheme casts newbies and hidden young talent for spring production of Henry VI Part 2

The Tragedy of Macbeth follows in the footsteps of Orson Welles’s bold 1948 film, which showed how imagination can turn Shakespeare’s text into more than just a costume epic

RSC artistic director Erica Whyman said she was ‘saddened but not surprised’ by the comments received from a ‘minority’ of people

D.J. Caruso’s historical drama/romance/morality play “Redeeming Love” opens with the Shakespeare quote “all that glitters is not gold,” and a pair of hands thrusting a pan into a river, searching for treasure. It sets the time and place in Gold Rush-era California, in the town of Pair-a-Dice circa 1850, but…

Over the last few years, the issue of decolonising the curriculum has become a growing concern for UK universities. This means recognising the legacy of western colonialism and rethinking the way we teach and research.

Mark Rylance says Intermission’s radical revamp of Romeo and Juliet will ‘change the face of classical theatre’

The focus of Joel Coen's "The Tragedy of Macbeth," now streaming on Apple TV+, naturally falls on Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand, who star as an older-than-usual Macbeth and Lady Macbeth.

A young boy from Meerut had a dream of becoming a famous cricketer. Unfortunately, (or maybe fortunately), when studying at Delhi University, his thumb broke just a day before an inter-university tournament. Soon after, he lost his father. These two developments made him give up his dream of playing cricket…