Shakespeare

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BBC’s ‘Biggest Ever Free Live Music Event’ For Olympics

Festival set for Hackney marshes.

Bob and Roberta Smith - Untitled, Screenprint, 2011. © Bob and Roberta Smith/Royal College of Art

Preview: Royal College of Art Exhibition “Folio” Shows Visual Responses to Shakespeare

A new, free exhibition by the Printmakers at the RCA

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Theatre Review: The Tempest @ Theatre Royal Haymarket

If you can embrace the play’s sugary, sentimental moments, Fiennes’ performance is a damn good ‘un and well worth catching if you can.

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Extra, Extra

Extreme skipping? Stolen heads? All this and more in tonight’s thrilling episode of Extra, Extra…

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Calling All Ladyboys: The Mango Tree Annual Beauty Pageant

Have you got what it takes to be Princess (or Prince) of Mango Tree?

Wayne Cater (Tyrell) and Richard Clothier (King Richard) in Richard III. Photo by Manuel Harlan

Theatre Review: Richard III @ Hampstead Theatre

The most riotous Shakespeare in town, lurching from urbanity to deranged, blackly comic violence.

David Tennant and Catherine Tate in Much Ado About Nothing / photo by Johan Persson

Much Ado About Nothing @ Wyndhams Theatre: How To Get Tickets

The Wyndhams Theatre ticket lottery explained, but is the show worth the hassle?

A Midsummer Night's Dream by Benjamin Britten performed by the English National Opera

Opera Review: A Midsummer Night’s Dream @ Coliseum

A deep, dark take on Benjamin Britten’s opera.

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Theatre Review: Macbeth @ Clerkenwell House of Detention

The Scottish play, standing up in a dark, dank prison.

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TONIGHT: Watch Macbeth at the Scoop in More London

It’s a nice day for al fresco Shakespeare.

The Tempest. Cheek by Jowl / Chekhov International Festival

Theatre Preview: The Tempest @ Barbican’s Silk Street Theatre

Shakespeare. In Russian. But don’t be put off – here’s why you should be excited about this new production coming to the Barbican…