The titular Duchess has been widowed, and her possessive brothers (Ferdinand and the Cardinal) do not want her to remarry - to this end, they place ex-con Bosola in her court as a spy, allowing them ...

Shakespeare's Globe announced the cast for A WORLD ELSEWHERE, a new show inspired by Shakespeare's tales, directed by Lucy ...

Paul Wills’s designs flood the interior of the Globe’s Sam Wanamaker Playhouse with gold – as though the theatre’s candle-light has turned liquid, dripping and smudging down pillars and creeping ...

It’s to Bagshaw’s credit and the riveting performances of Francesca Mills as the Duchess, Oliver Huband as her beloved Antonio and Shazia Nicholls as her faithful Cariola that good resonates more ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. From left, Olivier Huband, Shazia Nicholls and Francesca Mills in The Duchess of Malfi at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse (Marc ...

A new production of Anton Chekhov’s Three Sisters somehow shoehorns a whole world onto one small candlelit stage. This is the first time a Chekhov play has been performed at Shakespeare’s Globe and ...

Can this really be Tim Crouch’s Globe debut? As part of the season celebrating the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse’s tenth anniversary at the Globe, his long-existing solo show on Twelfth Night’s famous ...

There’s a reason Shakespeare’s early Roman revenge play is seldom done: it’s a mix of the horrific and the absurd, a nihilistic race to the bottom embracing rape, murder, mutilation and cannibalism.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Gabrielle Brooks as Innogen in Cymbeline (Marc Brenner) This rarely-staged late Shakespearean romance gets a bold, vivid ...

Infamously described by late 19th-century theatre critics as “loathsome”, “unutterably offensive” and “an open drain” upon its premiere, Henrik Ibsen’s Ghosts may no longer have the same power to ...