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The actor on working with Dennis Potter, channelling real life in Abigail’s Party and a groundbreaking lesbian snog

An engaging guide to Shakespeare’s most famous female role – and how it has been misread and misplayed for centuries

Presented in collaboration with the Tourism Authority of Thailand and B.Grimm, the Royal Bangkok Symphony Orchestra continued their wonderfully varied 2023 concert season at the Thailand Cultural Centre earlier this month with a programme devoted entirely to the incomparable genius of German composer Felix Mendelssohn.

The Winter’s Tale is one of Shakespeare’s great “hospitality plays” – a tragicomedy about what goes wrong when a guest outstays their welcome.

FX, in partnership with the BBC, has made a dreary, dismal and not very Dickensian miniseries out of Charles Dickens' "Great Expectations." And while that seems to be in some measure the point, it is, all the same, dreary and dismal and does not count so much as an adaptation…

The Great Expectations cast should make this miniseries adaptation of the Charles Dickens classic worth a look.

A 1655 edition of Shakespeare’s tragedy names members of an acting troupe, one of whom was slain in an eerie echo of the play

People have been left gobsmacked after a group of students worked together to create what might just be the funniest present ever - as they gifted their teacher a book of his unusual sayings

From Nineteen Eighty-Four’s Julia to Shakespeare’s Rosaline, the trend for a new perspective on a familiar tale is continuing apace. Authors and publishers explain what old stories tell us about today

The 72-year-old actor will play a young woman in the latest example of age-blind casting in a Shakespeare production

Dixie Dean is the Everton forward who scored 60 league goals in the 1927-28 season - and Haaland would have to score a hat-trick in every one of his final 11 top-flight games to beat the record