Kristin Scott Thomas, the actress, has been photographed in her new role as the Queen for the first time, saying taking over from Dame Helen Mirren is now 'all rather real'
There is no place in the arts for boycotts or political protest, Sajid Javid argues
Titus Andronicus, which caused more than 100 people to faint or leave during its theatre run, is to be shown in cinemas across the world
As she celebrates her 80th birthday, Dame Judi Dench reveals she has personally sponsored a 'wonderful boy' as young actors found themselves struggling to find work
The Evening Standard Theatre Awards sees A-listers including Dame Helen Mirren, Benedict Cumberbatch, Damian Lewis and the Beckhams pack out London's Palladium
Shakespeare's Globe is determined to visit every country in the world, despite coming up against a few obstacles
Sir Derek Jacobi says he struggles to hear what actors are saying on television
Dame Judi Dench argues there is still too much 'fear and prejudice' about Shakespeare thanks to bad teaching
The English National Ballet is to create a new "risk-taking, experimental" repetoire in partnership with Sadler's Wells
Sylvie Guillem, hailed as one of the greatest dancers of her generation, has announced her retirement after 39 years
A live play set in the final 90-minutes of the general election is to be broadcast in a television first
Actress Sheila Hancock says growing older has "liberated" her by allowing her to do "dreadful" things with her grandchildren to escaping from parties by telling the hosts they are "dull".
Emma Thompson speaks of her nerves and "nausea" as she returns to the London stage for the first time in 25 years for Sweeney Todd
The Royal Shakespeare Company received £1.5m grant to translate entire works of Shakespeare into Chinese
Alan Titchmarsh to make his West End debut
The Royal Shakespeare Company is to stage a long-forgotten play for the first time in 400 years, as it announces its 2015 season
Shakespeare could have been depressed when he wrote King Lear and Timon of Athens, the actor Simon Russell Beale suggests
A stage musical of The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 ¾ is given the go-ahead after the family of the late Sue Townsend give their blessing to the project
Terry Gilliam brings Monty Python to the opera in his new production of Benvenuto Cellini, with circus performers, and outsize statue and a prosthetic cucumber phallus
Cressida Bonas plays a health and safety obsessed singing wolf in a comedy play in Hay-on-Wye
British politicians are scared to show their faces at the opening night of opera, the Royal Opera House's music director argues
Nothing pleases me more than knowing I can still p--- people off at 80, Alan Bennett says
Five faint after seeing the 'grotesquely violent' Titus Andronicus at Shakespeare's Globe, as theatre-goers warn of feeling sick and sleepless nights
The first foray onto Broadway for Shakespeare's Globe theatre has proved a success after it was nominated for eight Tony Awards
Actors break world record by performing the works of Shakespeare at 37,000ft, while on board a flight to Verona