Festival coming to London - backed by actor Clive Owen - is showcasing puppetry as an artform for adults, capable of tackling dark and dramatic themes... more
Having been drenched in critics' superlatives for his Hamlet, David Tennant takes on a riskier proposition by trying his hand at Love's Labour Lost.... more
As the Time Lord, he dispatched the Daleks with relative ease. But now David Tennant - who is set to play Hamlet in the West End - faces a more formidable opponent in the shape of Sir Jonathan Miller.
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Shakespeare has never been more popular, but in the first of three major productions of the Danish tragedy, David Tennant has a fight on his hands.... more
Gregory Doran has discovered a way of translating an Elizabethan mythic-fantasy into a puppetry form that is accessible, amusing and eloquent, says Nicholas de Jongh.... more
Too many of the lovers' frailties have been ironed out in Antony and Cleopatra's move from Stratford-on-Avon to London, says Nicholas de Jongh.... more
The Royal Shakespeare Company has embarked on an expensive gamble by inflicting this flamboyantly awful, musical version of The Merry Wives Of Windsor upon us, says Nicholas de Jongh.... more
Her latest role as a treacherous school teacher is something of a departure. But Judi Dench understands the character, she tells Mike Goodridge. ... more