Shakespeare

Group of Elizabethan and Jacobean gold coins, © The Trustees of the British Museum

Exhibition Preview: Shakespeare’s Money & Medals @ British Museum

“Put money in thy purse” – here’s a free exhibition about money and Shakespeare.

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Theatre Review: Bingo @ The Young Vic

Patrick Stewart plays an anti-hero Shakespeare

Victoria Moseley & Rebecca Scroggs in A Midsummer Night's Dream. Photo by Keith Pattison

Theatre Review: A Midsummer Night’s Dream @ The Lyric

A fun and refreshing take on Shaksespeare’s comedy classic

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Stephen Fry To Perform At Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre

Stage return as Malvolio in Twelfth Night.

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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?