Antony and Cleopatra? Exhausting. Lear? Magnificent but flawed. Hamlet? Limitless. For Shakespeare’s birthday, the Guardian’s former theatre critic ranks all the plays ...

From a Spider-Man Romeo to a chopped-down "As You Like It", this summer's most exciting Shakespeare productions are nothing if not a break from the past. Tom Holland will be "trading his Spidey-senses ...

The full canon of Shakespeare's plays performed and recorded by the Royal Shakespeare Company is now available to stream in one place for the first time on Marquee TV. Audiences from around the world ...

Folger Theatre has revealed its 2026-27 season with three titles by the best-known playwright in the English language, William Shakespeare, to be performed at the Folger Shakespeare Library, his ...

Some say Shakespeare invented the “history play” – but he had a lot of help. Shakespeare was mainly writing comedies in the early 1590s when he is believed to have coauthored the play we now call ...

It is perhaps ironic that it took a bunch of Americans to get thousands of theatregoers interested in Shakespeare.What’s even more remarkable ...