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After sponsor Baillie Gifford ended its support, book festivals urgently need new models to survive financially

A rich study of queer desire in Shakespeare, from cosplay in The Merchant of Venice to gender fluidity in Twelfth Night

Ballet Black channels art, activism and radical beauty with this invigorating double bill

The RSC has reopened its refurbished Swan Theatre with an eagerly anticipated adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s bestselling novel Hamnet, said Sam Marlowe in The Stage. As “snug and supple” a fit for the Stratford stage as one of the bespoke gloves made by William Shakespeare’s bullying father, it imagines the…

Shakespeare’s wife moves centre stage in Lolita Chakrabarti’s pivotal adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s Hamnet, while urgent productions from two small London theatres tackle recent history head on

Newsroom has modelling suggesting 10 smaller regional water corporation will cost communities billions more than the Govt's previous reform model. Jonathan Milne talks with seven key mayors about that trade-off.

Lolita Chakrabarti’s staging of Maggie O’Farrell’s moving novel about the death of the playwright’s son – and his resurrection in Hamlet – is powerfully played, with the occasional cheesy line

Two people have now been arrested by West Midlands Police on suspicion of murder.

The pair will take on the responsibilities from June 2023 following the resignation of Gregory Doran