The Latest Breaking News from Shakespeare

The experimental annexe of Sweden’s national stage, Elverket, has fallen victim to severe government cuts. Its final play is a powerful protest against being forced to leave its home

It was a classic year at this year’s BFI London Film Festival, which took place earlier this month. If there was any observable shift, it was the number of filmmakers who turned to smaller-scale dramas of human connection, with action, fantasy and, to some degree, politics less prominent than usual.

Daniel Evans says young drama graduates who learned voice work online missed out on the physical presence of theatre training

ChatGPT-5 has become more conversational and personal, making it an ideal writing partner, but harder to detect

Woody Allen has paid a heartfelt tribute to his late friend and former lover Diane Keaton following her death over the weekend.

Mixing childhood memories, songs and Shakespeare, Michael Patrick delivers a one-man show about the reality of being given four years to live

Theatre and opera director whose work stretched from Gilbert and Sullivan to Shakespeare

The singer-songwriter has proved herself a modern-day Shagspeare with Wood, a paean to the penis. When it comes to shocking lyrics, though, it faces strong competition, writes Arwa Mahdawi

‘My wife finds the whole thing hilarious. She was the girlfriend who inspired it. We’ve now been together for 30 years’