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The play, by Olivier Award-winning playwright Laura Wade (Posh, The Riot Club, Rivals), is based on W Somerset Maugham’s ...
Production photos have been released for Hamlet Hail to the Thief, a new adaptation of Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Premiering at Aviva Studios, Manchester, the co-production between the Royal Shakespeare ...
Former Donmar Warehouse artistic director Michael Longhurst swaps war for Italian football in a new, exuberant Royal ...
Musician and broadcaster Jamie Cullum is set to make his theatrical debut with the Royal Shakespeare Company. He’ll compose new music for Laura Wade’s The Constant Wife, based on W Somerset Maugham’s ...
Musical Tick, Tick… Boom!, about an aspiring composer confronted by his 30th birthday, became an Oscar-nominated film in 2021 ...
Subtle, it ain’t. Scottish Opera’s reinvention of Franz Lehar’s The Merry Widow as a tale of Mafia family honour and carnal lust in 20th century New York and Sicily “jumps the shark” (in television ...
Michael Longhurst’s recontextualised Shakespearean comedy is an unsatisfying exploration of the sleaze, scandal and sexism embedded in football culture Placing pertinent themes of toxic ...
Shakespeare’s Schoolroom and Guildhall. A new bust of William Shakespeare will be on display as part of the celebrations for ...
As Stratford-upon-Avon prepares to host its annual day of Shakespeare celebrations, producer Richard Jordan considers the ...
The cafe is right in the heart of the market town, a short walk from the train station, the river, Shakespeare's Birthplace ...