The Latest Breaking News from Shakespeare

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Chadwick Boseman’s play Deep Azure has come to Shakespeare’s Globe for a highly anticipated run. Here is the moving tale behind it, by the director, Boseman’s family and the mother of the tragic student who is the subject of the play

‘Game of Thrones: The Mad King’ will premiere at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre this summer

The critically acclaimed series will take the stage in Stratford-upon-Avon later this year.

Novelist George RR Martin says RSC is ‘obvious choice’ to put on new play The Mad King, which will open after spring

The Black Panther actor’s melding of social commentary and Shakespearean themes is sometimes opaque yet undeniably poetic

After hit takes on Macbeth, Othello and Hamlet, Vishal Bhardwaj’s Romeo and Juliet adaptation sees dead-eyed lovers drag one another to gutter and grave

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‘I’m not very interested in trying to work out where Shakespeare’s imagination came from, but it certainly didn’t just come from family life,’ the British thespian said

South Asians love adding a bit of subcontinental flavor to everything. It’s mostly food and drink we do this to, like mixing baked beans with diced onions and cumin seeds, or spicing tea with cinnamon and fennel and cardamom. But now Academy Award winner Riz Ahmed has injected some spice…

Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights is a loose (very loose) adaptation of Emily Brontë’s novel. The film is, as the director has attested, the intense, “unhinged”, gothic story she remembers reading as a 14-year-old. As such, it is full of imagined passages and heightened romance and violence. It’s truly Fennellian in…