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Exclusive: Bafta-winner to join actors and young asylum seekers in 24-hour fundraising ‘Shakespeare marathon’

This short, snappy work of popular scholarship by Will Tosh, head of research at Shakespeare’s Globe, is a necessary provocation and a highly selective bid to claim our national poet as a queer icon. Fair enough. As Tosh says in his introduction, red-faced heterosexuals have spent centuries explaining away the…

Choreographer’s queer, condensed version dissolves the boundaries of the stage and, in a brilliant passage of dancing, the walls of the Joan Sutherland theatre itself

Benjamin Millepied has brought fresh vision to the Shakespearean tragedy and Prokofiev's classical score, using dance, theatre and cinema.

What started life as a reality show following kids in schools putting on Shakespeare has become a rather lovely adaptation with performances that give the pros a run for their money

The RSC is taking The School for Scandal to new heights with a lavish production at their Stratford theatre

Michael Lista’s new collection of poems should come with a Health Canada warning

This history of the bitter fight over the Federal Theatre Project has disturbing lessons for today’s politics

Picture perfect storytelling at its finest

Shakespeare’s work is classic enough to withstand almost anything, but this is a disaster that diminishes both play and performer

A marathon achievement for its feat of memory, this performance feels like avant garde cabaret at times