A hurricane destroyed his home, drugs took his mother and a drug dealer shot his stepfather - it's no wonder writer Tarell Alvin McCraney is interested in 'what people build a life on when they don't have options'... more
Son of Sir Peter Hall, who founded the Royal Shakespeare Company and later ran the National, is to take charge of Hampstead Theatre — but has already said he would not be taking any advice from his father... more
Group of young actors have re-invented Julius Caesar as a cautionary tale of violence in urban London - with Shakespeare's script partly rewritten in street language... more
It says something about the power of live theatre that a 500‑seat tent in the middle of a field was filled to overflowing at midnight on Saturday.... more
A gang of counterfeiters has struck a West End production of Hamlet staring David Tennant, in what is believed to be the first attack of its kind. ... more
Camden rock venue the Roundhouse has undergone a makeover so that it is equipt to stage the Royal Shakespeare Company's eight weeks of history plays.... more
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
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
Jonathan Slinger stole the limelight as the psychopathic future Richard III who goes about his murderous business with a chilling, charming gusto in Michael Boyd's vigorous revival of the Henry VI Histories.... more
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