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The parking warden’s day... death threats and racist abuse

16.11.09
Shocking levels of racist abuse and violence inflicted on London’s parking wardens are exposed in a new TV programme... more

Get out of the ghetto and enjoy London’s great art

10.08.09
Merely adding a hip-hop soundtrack to a play won’t solve the more fundamental mindset problem at work... more

Troilus and Cressida is not fit for heroes

24.07.09
When Troilus and Cressidea is done well, the piece is riveting. Unfortunately, this lacklustre offering is not done well.... more

We apologise for this delay to your service, but to live is to dream...

25.06.09
Drivers on the Piccadilly line are to operate on a higher plane by adding doses of philosophy to their daily announcements... more

Bard and beach volleyball in weekend of Olympics fun

23.06.09
Hundreds of events from giant dominoes to "hip hop Shakespeare" will take place this summer to boost public enthusiasm for the 2012 Olympic Games.... more

Unbeatable Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing

02.06.09
As the sun sets, the fairy lights twinkle, the Pimm's flows and Much Ado About Nothing plays out agreeably before us in Regent's Park. ... more

Mendelssohn's music in A Midsummer Night's Dream

06.05.09
Middle Temple Hall is the ideal venue for A Midsummer Night's Dream.... more

'Astonishing' Lenny Henry takes his Moor to West End

24.04.09
Lenny Henry is to make his West End theatrical debut as Othello... more

Shakespeare did not write his own plays, claims Sir Derek Jacobi

23.04.09
Two leading Shakespearean actors have joined the doubters who believe the bard did not write the plays... more

Man behaving badly in Taming of the Shrew

18.02.09
Stone Age gender politics aside, The Taming of the Shrew production at the Novello is a tiresome grind.... more

Love's labour at the Globe

12.02.09
The Globe is to celebrate affairs of the heart with a series of Shakespeare's plays about young love... more

Globe given priceless Shakespeare texts

07.11.08
A collector and playwright in America has pledged his "priceless collection" of texts by Shakespeare and other writers to Shakespeare's Globe Theatre... more

Twelfth Night is pared down to worthlessness

03.09.08
The surface might have been polished until it gleams but there is nothing meaningful underneath the voice-distorting microphones and synthesisers in Twelfth Night.... more

Bottom is top in Midsummer Night's Dream

08.08.08
Footsbarn's production of A Midsummer Night's Dream is forgiven for any niggles after a magical last scene in which peace is restored.... more

Timon is credit crunch tragedy

07.08.08
Timon of Athens's Globe run is a rare theatrical curio given a gimmicky staging, but with a sterling central performance.... more

Henry's crowning glory

08.05.08
Michael Boyd's epic, audacious presentation of Shakespeare's eight history plays is a magnificent achievement. ... more

It's all doom and gloom

10.04.08
You could not ask for a tragedy that does more to fill the senses with gloom than Feng Xiaogang’s dark, big-budget costume drama The Banquet. ... more

Feast on St George's Day

03.04.08
The capital will host a series of events in aid of St George's Day. From floating Shakespeare shows to English food markets, there is something to suit every taste.... more

Why Shakespeare inspires rapper Akala

18.03.08
After being dubbed the black Shakespeare by DJs following the release of his early single, Akala had a lot to live up to. Winning a Mobo award for his debut album set him on the right track.... more

The story of the upstart crow

26.11.07
If you plan to see one biography-of-Shakespeare show in your life, it might as well be Sweet William, says Fiona Mountford.... more

Bard takes a trip to Japan

20.09.07
Kenneth Branagh is definitely not a magical film-maker and his remake of As You Like It rarely catches fire as one of Shakespeare's most popular plays should. ... more

So whodunit, Will?

03.09.07
I Am Shakespeare is the best acted, funniest and least patronising bit of Theatre in Education you'll ever see, says Kieron Quirke.... more

Booze behind the success of re-born theatre

16.07.07
The Arts Theatre near Leicester Square, which was forced to close two years ago in a row over its lease, is thriving again - and bosses say cheap drinks are the secret of its success.... more

Making fast work of the Bard

22.06.07
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) moves at a cracking pace which sees 37 plays covered in just 97 minutes... more

An Eastern enchantment

14.03.07
The Roundhouse bursts back into dramatic life with Tim Supple's sensational, sexy and spectacular Indian version of A Midsummer Night's Dream.... more

An Indian Midsummer Night's Dream

06.03.07
Featuring actors, dancers, martial arts experts, musicians and street acrobats, this Indian version of a Shakespeare classic is causing a sensation.... more

A gender for change

16.01.07
Ed Hall is directing his all-male company in a double bill of Shakespeare plays which rely on gender differences. He tells Claire Allfree why.... more

Much ado about Iraq

09.01.07
Roy Williams's new play takes its inspiration from the Bard and adds binge-drinking and Basra to the mix. 'I wanted to capture a violent city atmosphere,' he says.... more

Fairytale high jinks and Shakespeare's Dame

26.09.06
Shakespeare's late romance, Cymbeline, gets the Kneehigh treatment, but its pared-down, revved up action-packed production doesn't always work perfectly, says Fiona Mountford.... more

Camping it up Shakespearean style

04.09.06
Shamlet promises a rollicking, exuberant parody of Shakespeare's Dane. What we actually get, alas, is a lot less high-minded.... more

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