William Shakespeare

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Theatre Review: Fair Em @ Union Theatre

Don’t worry whether this is really a lost Shakespeare play or not. Just enjoy the evening.

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Theatre Review: Kiss Me, Kate @ The Old Vic

Trevor Nunn’s riveting production of the Cole Porter classic.

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Where there’s a Will…

…there’s usually an exciting new project in the making. And word reaches Londonist today of one just such: the remains of the London theatre where Shakespeare first did his thing have been uncovered, in ‘no act of common passage but strain of rareness’ on the …

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Review: Cymbeline

A wealthy patriarch wants his daughter to marry his new wife’s son. Unbeknownst to him, said daughter has already secretly married a man deemed inappropriate for her. Meanwhile, in another part of the world, a man is raising the patriarch’s long-lost sons, both abducted as …

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Happy Birthday Dear NPG

The National Portrait Gallery (up there as one of our favourite London galleries) marks its 150th birthday this year and, as you’d imagine, there’s a few things going on in the way of celebration. First off the NPG have installed a series of what they …