Exclusive: Richard III may not have killed young princes in the Tower of London, researchers say
Two days later on March 3, royal documents reveal that Richard sent a trusted follower named Robert Markenfield on an unknown mission from Yorkshire to the remote…
Cush Jumbo: ‘I love being a mum, but it’s also why I’m not going to have any more children’
Cush wears: dress, £1,095, Cecilie Bahnsen; Shoes, £980, Miu Miu; earrings, £125, Shrimps Born and raised in Lewisham, she trained in the theatre before appearing as DC…
The Tragedy of Macbeth, review: Denzel Washington’s tortured king crowns a movie to die for
15 Cert, 105 min. Dir: Joel Coen The knocking at the castle door is like a bailiff’s battering ram: a nagging, nether-worldly thud that speaks of a…
This year, opera had to do the unthinkable in order to survive
There were several versions of Janáček’s heart-warming The Cunning Little Vixen, by Longborough, Holland Park, and in concert by the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra under Mirga…
John Kani: when Antony Sher and I reinvented ‘The Tempest’
It’s astonishing to think that a play written in the 17th century could feel so relevant and powerful and poignant. When people saw our production, they all…
We don’t need to be kept ‘safe’ from Shakespeare, thank you very much
Another week, another potty development in the ongoing clash between the culture wars and the role of art. Yesterday the academic Hailey Bachrach, a researcher at the…
William Shakespeare can never be cancelled
Domestic violence, coercive control, teen suicide, the drugging and sexual exploitation of unconsenting women: all have been addressed in recent television dramas, praised for their courageous depiction…
Richard Wilson remembers Antony Sher: ‘I gave him one piece of advice for playing Richard III’
Sher is best known for his stage roles. Does Wilson believe he should have been more of a star in other media, film or TV? “I did…
Measure for Measure, Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, review: yet another disservice to Shakespeare
Shakespeare is fascinated with intricately opposed psychological states – again and again, people seem one thing, but prove another. In Measure for Measure, he probes that duality…
Zadie Smith is right – today’s literature rarely bridges the class divide
Barbara Pym, as great a chronicler of society’s mores as Jane Austen, was, like her forebear, often confined (perhaps willfully so) to genteel environs which, in Pym’s…