Shakespeare

Scoot to the Richmond Theatre to see one of England’s finest theatrical knights strut his stuff.

What will the ravens think?

Double Falsehood, (or, Was It Will? to give it our preferred subtitle) comes to the New Players Theatre following a successful run at the Union earlier this year.

Today’s the day you can break away from this winter of discontent and book tickets to see Richard III at the Old Vic; it’s sure to be the theatrical event of our glorious summer 2011.

A new musical by singer-songwriter Tori Amos, a new play by Mike Leigh and Simon Russell Beale playing Stalin are all part of the National Theatre’s plans for next year.

Friends, Londonists, commuters,
Lend me your eyes.
I come to praise Caesar, not to bury it.
The good that men do lives on after them,
Their works oft inspire and amaze.
So let it be with Shakespeare…

One of Shakespeare’s famous tales of sorcery and spirits gets a spellbinding adaptation by Moving Stage Theatre. Stepping under the canvas banner on a barge strung with lights, we begin our journey into the imagination. As the programme notes, marionette theatre demands the audience put …

Serena Evans (Mistress Page), Christopher Benjamin (John Falstaff) and Sarah Woodward (Mistress Ford). Photo by John Tramper The Globe Theatre’s hit 2008 production of The Merry Wives of Windsor is back. And you can catch it at the reconstructed Globe until 2 October, before the …

Shakespeare was in a dark mood when he wrote Titus Andronicus. If he did, that is – its Websterean bleakness and gore are surprising for anyone more used to the psychological tortures of Hamlet, although the body count is to be expected. Boiled down to …

Matthew Wade and Tabitha Becker Khan (c) Shaheen Razzaq/Veni Vidi Theatre Company Natalie-Anne Down’s adaptation of Othello for Veni Vidi Theatre Company‘s annual outdoor run at Lauderdale House proves to be a prescient choice in a summer where one man attacked his lover before committing …