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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…

Predecessor to the Bard’s Globe redeveloped as tourist site

The tiny island of Iona, just off the Isle of Mull on the West Coast of Scotland, is home to what is widely considered one of Scotland's most historic and sacred sites.

Art and magic so often go hand in hand. These new YA releases all explore both art and magic as the means to heal trauma, communities — and even worlds.

O’Farrell’s novel about Shakespeare losing his young son to the plague struck a powerful chord in lockdown. She and Chakrabarti discuss class, place and loss in their theatre adaptation

Hugh Cornwell tells the story of the Stranglers' summer-of-punk-classic second album No More Heroes: "We definitely couldn’t get away with that now"

Letters: Charles Nicholl on the tantalising possibility that the dramatist wrote a poem that features the earliest known use of the word

Salon talks to the comic and writer about his latest effort, a tribute to the woman who found Richard III's remains

Exclusive: To the Deserving Author, found in the playbook of Jonson’s Sejanus: His Fall, is signed by ‘Cygnus’