To mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death, we asked leading actors to perform key speeches from his plays. Here, Paterson Joseph speaks Shylock's lines from The Merchant of Venice…
To mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death, we asked leading actors to perform key speeches from his plays. Here, Laura Carmichael speaks Portia's lines from The Merchant of Venice…
To mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death, we asked leading actors to perform key speeches from his plays. Here, Damian Lewis performs Antony's lines from act III, scene 2 of Juli…
To mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death, we asked leading actors to perform key speeches from his plays. Here, Zawe Ashton speaks Jacques's lines on the seven ages of man from A…
To mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death, we asked leading actors to perform key speeches from his plays. Here, Riz Ahmed speaks Edmund's soliloquy from the start of Act I, Scene…
Citizens, GlasgowDirected by Dominic Hill, this four-hour epic of ambition and power is a sinewy reworking of Aeschylus that explodes into a cacophonous climaxIt usually feels like a handica…
Lewis plays Antony and Ashton performs 'All the world's a stage' for our video series, which features Riz Ahmed, Laura Carmichael and Paterson JosephThe final set of films in the Guardian's …
The Keir Choreographic award showcases the preoccupations of the Australian industry: multimedia, identity, and a rejection of danceAs Australia's Keir Choreographic award gears up for its f…
Ibsen was sane, progressive and formal. Strindberg was neurotic, reactionary and fragmented. The two were arch enemies - but together they laid the foundations for modern drama, says Michael…
Elephants are preparing to take their final bow at the Ringling Bros and Barnum and Bailey Circus, ending a 145-year spectacle that delighted fans and enraged animal activists. The 11 remain…
You mention Gareth Thomas's role as Mat Burke in the RSC's Anna Christie. In 1980 I was one of the two crew working the scene changes on this production at the Warehouse, the other being Kei…
Louis CK, Gilbert Gottfried, Vanessa Bayer and Jim Gaffigan proved at the David Lynch Foundation comedy benefit that laugher, along with transcendental meditation, is the best medicine"Peopl…
Final show for the pachyderms comes after local government actions made touring with the animals difficult as activists herald 'victory' for animal rightsAfter the last ever circus to featur…
Branagh channels Olivier, Isabelle Huppert lusts after her stepson and Ralph Fiennes gets the royal hump. Meanwhile there's magic in the air as Harry Potter grows up " and Groundhog Day is r…
Sadler's Wells, LondonThe annual festival delivers style and substance, from the Ruggeds' goofy stunts to Ivan Blackstock's nightmarish new workThere's always a buzz at Breakin' Convention. …
Second Stage TheatrePop score and outcast protagonist hit all the right notes as Benj Pasek and Justin Paul production explores intense issues " and critiques internet culture Can a performa…
Northern Stage, NewcastleImprobable's dramatisation of Lauren Slater's provocative book about 20th-century science is disappointingly predictableLauren Slater's book of popular psychology, O…
Power couple Osipova and Polunin burn up the stage, the Windsors do Swan Lake, Jane Eyre becomes a Brontë ballet, and Pinocchio shows what it's like to be humanCathy Marston's new ballet …
For the BBC series, Eyre took Shakespeare's histories out into the country they portrayed, shooting on location to give a broad vision of EnglandShakespeare's history plays are all about con…
Jamie Lloyd's noisy production made me want to lie down in a quiet room but it's an admirable attempt to get a new and younger audience into the theatreJamie Lloyd's production of Doctor Fau…
The Brighton festival and fringe begin, Spymonkey tackle all of the deaths in Shakespeare's plays and Ambreen Razia performs Diary of a Hounslow Girl Continue reading...
2 May 1960: Humility, pride, and discipline produce the eloquent and noble art of India's classical dancer Ram GopalRam Gopal is one of the most celebrated exponents of the classical Indian …
Melbourne Theatre Company, Southbank TheatreDirector Kip Williams's electric staging of Strindberg classic uses technology to pump up a once-radical dissection of ordinary human livesThere a…
St Ann's Warehouse, BrooklynBenedict Andrews' poignant new staging of Tennessee Williams's play, imported from London, feels utterly contemporaryTennessee Williams' play has travelled a rath…
59E59 TheatersRichard Bean's 1999 play blends social realism with sometimes cruel jokes, managing a distinctive voice despite sticking with a standard recipe Continue reading...