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8 touring theater productions to mark on your calendar this fall
The Week Recommends A pop icon, Shakespeare reconsidered and a sublime musical about mortality are all on the boards
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Romeo & Juliet: 'all very clever, but to what end?'
The Week Recommends Jamie Lloyd's 'turbo-stylised' production is met with mixed reviews
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The London Library and Elizabeth Winkler's female Shakespeare claims
Why Everyone's Talking About Critics say an event suggesting Shakespeare may have been a woman is 'wildly inappropriate'
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Best of the Bard in 2024: the Shakespeare plays everyone's talking about
The Week Recommends A handful of Shakespeare productions are making headlines in the theatre world and they haven't even opened yet
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Love poems: 20 classics
In Depth Take inspiration from the greats on writing romantic verses
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As You Like It: a ‘good-natured comedic romp’
The Week Recommends Actors in their 60s, 70s and 80s unite in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre’s ‘poignant’ production
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A Midsummer Night’s Dream review: an ‘assured’ new staging at the Globe
The Week Recommends This production of Shakespeare’s classic ‘doesn’t reinvent the wheel’ but it’s ‘gleeful’
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Hamnet review: ‘beautifully acted’ but doesn’t ‘pierce the heart’
The Week Recommends Swan Theatre reopens with stage adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s bestselling novel
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The Comedy of Errors (more or less) review: Shakespeare with a fun twist
The Week Recommends Contemporary spin on the Bard’s comedy is ‘quite mad’, but has ‘plenty of laughs’
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The Tempest review: Alex Kingston gives a ‘revelatory’ performance as Prospero
The Week Recommends Royal Shakespeare Theatre’s new production is ‘inspired’ in part, but has ‘rather clunky’ moments
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Othello at the National Theatre review: a ‘sensational’ production
The Week Recommends Clint Dyer has become the first black director to stage Othello at a major British theatre
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University to launch course about Harry Styles
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Richard III review: this RSC production shines with ‘magisterial splendour’
The Week Recommends Titular character played by Arthur Hughes – the first actor with a disability to take on the role at Stratford
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Broadcaster announces Shakespeare’s death 405 years late
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