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Theatre
A towering performance by Danny Sapani grips in Yaël Farber’s searing production of King Lear at the Almeida Theatre
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Kenneth Branagh returns to the London stage for the first time in almost a decade with a bizarrely melodramatic and abridged King Lear
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The Royal Shakespeare Company's enjoyable stage adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s best-selling novel Hamnet comes to the Garrick Theatre for a 14-week run
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Ralph Fiennes and Indira Varma star as the Macbeths in Simon Godwin's site-specific production, staged in an east London warehouse
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Elle While’s sorcery-led production explores The Dream’s darker undertones, with Globe boss Michelle Terry delivering a nightmarish Puck
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Director Josie Rourke’s overtly musical take on the Bard's As You Like It @sohoplace proves the pastoral tale can be just as cheery in winter
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Clint Dyer’s slick production of Othello at the National Theatre starkly illuminates the systemic racism and misogyny in society
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Director Jude Christian takes on Titus Andronicus, Holly Race Roughan does Henry V and Sean Holmes presents an indoor-outdoor take on The Winter's Tale
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Shakespeare’s Globe, Headlong and Leeds Playhouse unite to present a fresh take on Shakespeare’s timeless history play Henry V, directed by Holly Race Roughan
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Shakespeare’s first and bloodiest tragedy Titus Andronicus in a new production by pioneering director Jude Christian at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse
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In a first for Shakespeare's Globe, director Sean Holmes presents a promenade The Winter’s Tale that moves between the theatre’s indoor and outdoor spaces
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Kathryn Hunter and Michelle Terry deliver star performances in Helena Kaut-Howson's revival of her 1997 production of King Lear at Shakespeare's Globe
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Shakespeare’s King Henry VIII comes in for a savage reappraisal in Hannah Khalil’s radical rewrite of the play, now on at the Globe Theatre
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Director Lucy Bailey returns to the Globe with a playful, libido-fuelled take on Much Ado About Nothing that runs on Love Island-style drama and sexual tension
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The Donmar’s associate director Max Webster presents a befuddled production of Henry V, starring a flat Kit Harington, that favours style over substance
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The Globe’s Sean Holmes transports audiences to the magical lair of Prospero and co with his fresh-air take on the Bard’s elemental comedy, The Tempest
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Cinema
Joel Coen adapts and directs this new, black-and-white adaptation of the William Shakespeare play. Stars Denzel Washington, Frances McDormand and Brendan Gleeson
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Theatre
Director Blanche McIntyre stages Shakespeare’s ‘problem play’ Measure for Measure in the atmospheric Sam Wanamaker Playhouse at Shakespeare’s Globe
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Director Sean Holmes stages the first ever production of Hamlet to play inside the candlelit Sam Wanamaker Playhouse at Shakespeare’s Globe
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Theatre
In Dream, the RSC brings to life the world of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream for audiences at home
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Theatre
In Shakespeare, Tolkien, Others & You, Sir Ian McKellen guides audiences through a retrospective of his 50-year career
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Theatre
The Globe stages Richard III, a deliciously villainous play featuring the hunchback that everyone loves to hate.
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Theatre
Dominic Hill's A Midsummer Night's Dream at Regent's Park is dark, hilarious and open air theatre at its very best
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Kids
Blenheim Palace will welcome Europe's first pop-up Shakespearean theatre with a season of Renaissance revelry
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Theatre
Head to one of London's historic squares to watch the summertime Shakespeare favourite, A Midsummer Night's Dream
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Michelle Terry is back for her second summer season
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Headlong theatre company bring a radically different take on Shakespeare's Richard III to the newly-restored Alexandra Palace Theatre
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Cinema
Retelling the final days of William Shakespeare, All Is True sees Kenneth Branagh direct and star in a lesser-known literary life story
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Theatre
Modern Essex meets Elizabethan Windsor in this playful production of Shakespeare's silly Falstaff spin-off
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Theatre
Female comedians Pauline McLynn and Jocelyn Jee Esien have livened up Doctor Faustus into a giggling romp for the 2019 Sam Wanamaker Winter season
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Theatre
The Royal Shakespeare Company brings the Bard’s most famous love story to the Barbican Theatre
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Kids
Justin Audibert’s child-friendly production of The Winter’s Tale comes to the National Theatre