Exclusive: Canon now includes domestic tragedy Arden of Faversham, which is attributed solely to Kyd and 'not at all' to Shakespeare The number of plays attributed to the 16th-century playwr…
Exclusive: John Doyle says theatre should be able to disturb and challenge audiences, and not sanitise difficult themes The Tony award-winning theatre director John Doyle has warned that tri…
Exclusive: using immersive descriptive audio, performance explores how blindness can redefine experience of dance The Royal Ballet has long offered headphones with audio descriptions so that…
Daniel Evans says young drama graduates who learned voice work online missed out on the physical presence of theatre training Young actors who trained at drama school during the pandemic are…
Earl of Southampton may have given writer the miniature by Nicholas Hilliard, which has defaced heart on its reverse The discovery of a previously unknown portrait miniature by one of Elizab…
Exclusive: Born With Teeth by Liz Duffy Adams, coming to West End, imagines rival dramatists working together A Guardian report on William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe being literary …
Professor says text shows Hathaway lived with playwright in London, upending the established idea of an unhappy marriage It has long been assumed that William Shakespeare's marriage to Anne …
Equity union says filming scenes at home amounts to unpaid labour and reinforces elitism Actors seeking their next role are now routinely asked to "self-tape" their auditions, a practice tha…
Exclusive: About 350 props, awards and personal items will be auctioned by his estate and his widow The prosthetic nose that Laurence Olivier wore when portraying Richard III in his classic …
Exclusive: Scholar names Henry Porter as likely co-author of 1604 play after linguistic clues in his surviving work Scholars have long suggested that Christopher Marlowe had a collaborator f…
Gloomy segmented head of famed playwright fails to convey his wit and brilliance, says Merlin Holland A huge sculpture of Oscar Wilde's head lying on its side, his face sliced into segments,…
Exclusive: Ken Ludwig gives Shakespeare Birthplace Trust largest private donation in its 177-year history The charity that cares for historic Shakespeare sites in Stratford-upon-Avon has rec…
Exclusive: lecturer finds 'striking similarities' between lines in Jonson's Every Man in His Humour and later Shakespeare works He was an actor, as well as the greatest dramatist of all time…
Royal Shakespeare Company steps into dispute at Guildhall drama school after senior teacher quits in protest over methods "O, it offends me to the soul to hear a robustious periwig-pated …
Exclusive: John Shakespeare's muckhill fine in 1552 was a waste disposal toll rather than a punishment, researcher says The earliest record of William Shakespeare's father in Stratford-upon-…
A newly unearthed essay reveals the ambitious vision of the influential choreographer, teacher and innovator He was one of the 20th century's foremost pioneers of modern dance, bringing tog…
Powerful dramas that speak to today's audiences, retrieved after British Library discovery, will be performed in London next month It was a chance discovery in the British Library that has l…
Exclusive: To the Deserving Author, found in the playbook of Jonson's Sejanus: His Fall, is signed by 'Cygnus' An almost unknown sonnet in the playbook or script of a 1603 play by Ben Jonson…
The acclaimed actor " who is to receive a lifetime achievement award at this year's Olivier Awards " says the demise of repertory theatre is putting paid to the vocal prowess The demise of r…
Crammed with minuscule writing, manuscript is seen as earliest 'proper reader's response' to first folio In 2017, an expert on BBC One's Antiques Roadshow was excited by a minuscule 17th-cen…
Rising costs have led to staff redundancies and curtailed opening hours as nine out of 10 sites fear they could close permanently Theatres, museums, castles and other heritage sites are mak…
Exclusive: Musical and children's play are among vast archive explored in upcoming film about comedic genius A musical and a children's play written by Spike Milligan are among unmade script…
The A Clockwork Orange author's translation " complete with recording " hailed as significant literary discovery Beyond his satirical novel A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess's masterpieces…
Cult LA theatre show Cages uses holographic avatars that blend seamlessly with real actors Avatars of human beings that are indistinguishable from the real thing have been created for a new …
Remedies used by healer Susanna Hall and her doctor husband will be planted at Stratford home In Shakespeare's Hamlet, Ophelia offers rosemary to boost memory, while in A Midsummer Night's …