King Lear, Almeida Theatre, stage review: ‘Ramped-up, sexed-up take on the Shakespeare classic’
Yaël Farber’s adaptation keeps the audience ‘gripped throughout’
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The Comedy of Errors, Barbican, stage review: ‘A Shakespeare classic reborn’
Often derided as the bard’s early ‘joke’ work, the famous farce is given a surprisingly smart update at the Barbican
The Taming of the Shrew, Barbican Theatre, stage review: ‘Gender reversal offers an ingenious twist’
Justin Audibert’s ‘inside-out version’ of Shakespeare’s classic is ‘highly enjoyable’
Bard in the Yard: New Shakespeare statue to sit near Elizabethan Shoreditch Theatre
Sculpture planned as part of public realm around Hackney’s first official monument
Tower Theatre Company set for ‘huge landmark’ as it gears up for opening night at new home
After 15 nomadic years, the am-dram group will launch its Stoke Newington venue next week with a performance of Henry V
‘London’s first theatreland’: Archaeologists dig up more secrets at Shakespearean playhouse
Museum of London also reveals plans for a new exhibition space in Shoreditch centred around The Theatre’s in-situ remains
Curtain Theatre: ‘this playhouse has exploded everything we thought we knew about playhouses’
Archaeological uncovering has had major impact on understanding the social role of Elizabethan theatre
Hamlet, Hackney Empire, review: RSC’s African restaging brings the energy of youth to the tragedy
The Royal Shakespeare Company come to Hackney with a West African-influenced production that features their first use of a black actor in the title role
Richard III, Arcola, theatre review: the bovver boy royal in a bare bones production
This enjoyable staging of Shakespeare’s historic tragedy makes the most of its stark setting and a “performance on fire”
Alas! Royal Shakespeare Company’s Hamlet tour to stop at Hackney Empire next year
Londoner Paapa Essiedu to star in the production, which reimagines Denmark as a modern, African-influenced state
Hamlet, Almeida Theatre, review: method and madness
The N1 theatre stages the tragedy with a variety of bells & whistles that make for a stylish production
Mysteries unearthed in Shoreditch excavation of Shakespeare’s Curtain Theatre
‘Unusual passageway’ discovered under stage where first actors to play Romeo and Juliet trod the boards
Saddled with Shakespeare: The Handlebards ride to Geffrye Museum
An all-bicycling theatre company is giving new meaning to the phrase ‘play cycle’
Richard III – review
Echoes of Rigsby from 70s sitcom Rising Damp in the way Fiennes turns dialogue into series of japes
Shakespeare dig helps piece together history of Curtain Theatre
Artefacts discovered include a bird whistle that could possibly have been used in early performances of Romeo and Juliet
Families to dig up Shakespeare’s Curtain Theatre before developers move in
The site of early performances of Romeo and Juliet and Henry V is to be incorporated into a tower of luxury apartments and office space in Shoreditch