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To mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death, we asked leading actors to perform key speeches from his plays. Here, Adrian Lester speaks Hamlet's soliloquy from act III, scene 1, in …
To mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death, we asked leading actors to perform key speeches from his plays. Here, Eileen Atkins speaks Emilia's lines from Othello, act IV scene 3. …
To mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death, we asked leading actors to perform key speeches from his plays. Here, Joanna Vanderham speaks Juliet's monologue from the balcony scene …
To mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death, we asked leading actors to perform key speeches from his plays. Here, Ayesha Dharker plays Titania, the queen of the fairies in A Midsum…
To mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death, we asked leading actors to perform key speeches from his plays. Here, Roger Allam plays King Lear in act III, scene 2 of the tragedy. Le…
To mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death, we asked leading actors to perform key speeches from his plays. Here, David Morrissey speaks the opening lines from Richard III in which…
The Guardian's new series of performance videos catch the intricate thought processes behind Shakespeare's lines How do you make Shakespeare instantly available? One answer is to film star a…
Her champions regard Katie Mitchell as Britain's greatest living stage director " but her critics see a vandal smashing up the classics. After staging her most ambitious work in Europe, can …
Adrian Lester, David Morrissey and Eileen Atkins are among the stars performing some of Shakespeare's greatest speeches in a set of videos to mark the 400th anniversary of the playwright's d…
The director recalls her 1994 Talawa production of the tragedy, in which 39-year-old Ben Thomas was cast as a last-minute king after Norman Beaton fell illI am a Shakespeare freak. It's abou…
James Graham considers Screaming Lord Sutch in Plymouth, police activity is scrutinised in Nottingham, and Shakespeare's daughter goes to court in NorthamptonLuca Rutherford asks how hard it…
Star of The Three Musketeers, Othello and Bouquet of Barbed Wire died from heart failure at his home, surrounded by familyThe family of Frank Finlay has remembered him as a "damn fine actor"…
We've got chills, and they're multiplyin' ... probably because the TV musical Grease: Live is on and we're live-blogging it. Please join us on the couch for some hand-jiving, bomber jackets …
Stage and screen actor admired for his many classical theatrical roles who played the obsessed father in the 1970s TV drama Bouquet of Barbed WireAs an actor, there was something sinister an…
First Direct Arena, LeedsA greatest hits show made more poignant after Mortimer's recent heart bypass meandered even more than usualEvery performance of Reeves and Mortimer's new stage tour …
NT Temporary Space, LondonEffie, our Greek heroine via south Cardiff, finds a voice by raging against the sacrificial UK government in this blistering, big-hearted performance"I can't speak.…
A Brooklyn warehouse becomes a 1970s tropical resort in a sensuous Third Rail stage production that aims for immersion " but ultimately feels forcedHow quickly an orgy can pall.That's one of…
Platform, GlasgowJenna Watt's striking and poignant interaction between colourful smoke and life-changing decisions is at once gorgeous and full of jeopardyTowards the start of this entertai…
Peacock theatre, LondonJakop Ahlbom's loving homage to horror films is a masterclass in time-and-motion stagecraftJakop Ahlbom's brilliantly strange Lebensraum was one of the cult successes …
Lyric Hammersmith, London Young Max Gill is terrific in a new production of Simon Stephens's meditation on bullyingSean Holmes has pulled off a terrific smash and grab on Herons. His product…
Royal Exchange, ManchesterMargaret Edson's award-winning play about a professor with aggressive cancer is thought-provoking " and very funny"Whilst my physicians by their love are grown/ Cos…
Royal Court, LondonChurchill's magnificent new play unleashes an intricate, elliptical, acutely female view of the apocalypseSo which is the best moment in Caryl Churchill's sizzling new pla…
Royal Court, LondonThe hit team behind Pomona turn Anna Jordan's gritty play into something specialTwo years ago Ned Bennett (director), Georgia Lowe (designer) and Polly Bennett (movement d…
The cast of Friends has reunited " except for Matthew Perry. He is in London embarking on the next chapter of his lifeMatthew Perry will make his playwriting debut when The End of Longing op…
Choreographer, dancer and devotee of west African culturePeggy Harper, who has died aged 85, was a dancer and choreographer who dedicated much of her life to the study of traditional Nigeria…
