Posts Tagged ‘Shakespeare’
King Lear, Almeida Theatre, stage review: ‘Ramped-up, sexed-up take on the Shakespeare classic’
Yaël Farber’s adaptation keeps the audience ‘gripped throughout’
Read MoreThe 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
Read MoreThe 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’
Read MoreBard 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
Read MoreTower 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
Read More‘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
Read MoreCurtain 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
Read MoreHamlet, 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
Read MoreRichard 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”
Read MoreAlas! 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
Read MoreHamlet, Almeida Theatre, review: method and madness
The N1 theatre stages the tragedy with a variety of bells & whistles that make for a stylish production
Read MoreMysteries 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
Read MoreSaddled with Shakespeare: The Handlebards ride to Geffrye Museum
An all-bicycling theatre company is giving new meaning to the phrase ‘play cycle’
Read MoreRichard III – review
Echoes of Rigsby from 70s sitcom Rising Damp in the way Fiennes turns dialogue into series of japes
Read MoreShakespeare 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
Read MoreFamilies 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
Read MoreShakespeare in Shoreditch festival stages 1,000 plays
Actors will climb aboard a custom built ‘pageant wagon’ and set off on a tour of Hackney
Read MoreRichard II at the Barbican – review
David Tennant is majestic as Richard II at the Barbican in Shakespeare’s tale of crown and country
Read MoreShakespeare’s Hackney roots unearthed
Two excavated theatres in Shoreditch were probably where Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet and Henry V were first performed
Read MoreA Midsummer Night’s Dream in Stoke Newington
Shakespeare’s popular comedy is running in Abney Park Cemetery this month
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