The Latest Breaking News from Shakespeare

It is one of the most electrifying and unsettling sounds in theatre. Should we be encouraging crowds to do it more? Experts tell us about booing’s origins – and actors remember being on the receiving end of audience outrage

Other lives: Film and TV production designer whose work included The Camomile Lawn and Portrait of a Marriage

If you can’t get tickets to his Macbeth, Tennant’s acclaimed prince of Denmark is online, along with a spectacular take on three Shakespeare plays by Ivo van Hove

Navigate the infodemic with reliable sources: learn to dodge WhatsApp forwards, YouTube reels and Instagram posts to stay informed.

In a thin year for musicals and political drama, an 11th hour Blanche DuBois, a flurry of young actors, two James Graham plays and a pair of Macbeths were among the standouts

Ravenous mysteries and mind-boggling motives

Whoever said math is useless in the real world can crawl under a rock because this Reddit community did all the calculations. All the unnecessary, yet interesting ones, though, but it still counts. The post 60 ‘Useless Yet Interesting Calculations’ To Get Your Mind Reeling (New Posts) first appeared on…

There’s a puppet but no happy ending at Emma Rice’s fine new Somerset venue; Elvis Costello soundtracks a postwar Polish love story; and Armando Iannucci bravely tries to satirise the Tory party

Tennant and Cush Jumbo star as Shakespeare's murderous couple, but their work is overwhelmed by some ill-advised aural shenanigans