Shakespeare was a social entrepreneur and entertainer in a world riven by crises, and much can be learned from bringing him ...

He also won an Olivier Award for Sondehim musical Company, and is now returning to the stage to lead a new production of Shakespeare's history play Richard II. Bailey stars as the titular king ...

Surgery has revealed fast-growing tumours are present in Richard Scolyer's brain. Doctors have given the former Australian of the Year up to three months to live. The melanoma pathologist had ...

There’s a moment in the latest episode of The Rest Is Entertainment, Richard Osman and Marina Hyde’s phenomenally successful pop culture podcast, that’s been kicking up a minor stir on ...

For as long as there have been films, there have been movies based on Shakespeare ... including Henry IV, Henry V, Richard II, and The Merry Wives of Windsor, Chimes at Midnight sees Keith ...

When I spoke to Kwaku Mills, who is starring as Baldock in Christopher Marlowe’s Edward II this month, the company were in their ... Breathing new life into a classic is a core aim of the Royal ...

Edward II at the RSC Swan Credit: Helen Murray This version – running fast, as if for dear life, with no interval – isn’t coy about Edward’s physical desire and emotional dependency.

The story relates the disastrous reign of Edward II, whose lavishing of gifts and political power on his low-born lifelong companion Gaveston drove a wedge between the king and the nobles on whom ...

A Waitangi Tribunal urgent inquiry has begun looking into claims that the government’s push to prioritise English names and language in the public sector is harming te reo Māori. Richard ...

Thanks to the 16th-century worldview that we’ve inherited most powerfully through Shakespeare (read Kate Maltby’s review of Nicholas Hytner’s new production of Richard II here), Richard’s deposition ...

Why stage Richard II in 2025? Perhaps, post-Brexit, because it kicks off Shakespeare’s eight-play retelling of the Wars of the Roses, a conflict which saw England so riven with internal division that ...