Category: Shakespeare

Posted in Digital Shakespeare

Shakespeare Solos – Part 2

  “Are you meditating on virginity?” The Guardian’s Shakespeare Solos series continues apace with its second suite…

Posted in Lyric Hammersmith Shakespeare Theatre

Review: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Filter at Lyric Hammersmith

“Keith, KEITH, it’s just two fellas kissing” There was a moment towards the end of this performance,…

Posted in Barbican Theatre Cyndi Lauper Kenneth Branagh Mark Gatiss Musicals Shakespeare Southwark Playhouse Theatre Theatre awards What's On Stage Awards

Winners of the 2016 What’s On Stage Awards

  Best Actor In A Play Sponsored By Radisson Blu Edwardian: WINNER – Benedict Cumberbatch, Hamlet James…

Posted in Shakespeare Theatre

Review: The Winter’s Tale, Sam Wanamaker Playhouse

 Thou metst with things dying, I with things new-born” It’s easy to feel a little jaded when…

Posted in Digital Shakespeare

Shakespeare Solos – Part 1

“But I do think it is their husbands’ faults if wives do fall” There’s going to be…

Posted in Shakespeare Shakespeare's Globe Theatre

Review: Cymbeline, Sam Wanamaker Playhouse

“Fear no more the frown o’ the great” You wait for a production of relatively little-performed Shakespeare…

Posted in New Diorama Shakespeare The Faction Theatre

Review: Richard III, New Diorama

“I am determined to prove a villain” It’s nice to see The Faction switching things up a…

Posted in Shakespeare Theatre

Review: DÓTTIR, Courtyard Theatre

“What did your father do?” With a set-up that reads like a Shakespearean version of the Englishman,…

Posted in Shakespeare Shakespeare's Globe Theatre

Review: Pericles, Sam Wanamaker Playhouse

“Few love to hear the sins they love to act” A New Year, a new chance for…