Review: Much Ado about Nothing – The Globe

Review: Much Ado about Nothing – The Globe

Michael HollandMay 5, 2024

Music, laughter, and witty repartee The musicians open the play, walking onto the stage and quickly joined by the company singing and dancing, writes…

Macbeth at the Donmar

Macbeth at the Donmar

Michael HollandNov 6, 2023

The Donmar Warehouse Artistic Director Michael Longhurst and Executive Director Henny Finch today announce the full cast for Macbeth. Joining the previously announced David…

Casting for Othello at the Riverside

Casting for Othello at the Riverside

Michael HollandAug 23, 2023

One of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies, Othello, has begun its casting: Martins Imhangbe will play the title role in this new production conceived by director…

Compositor E For Omnibus

Compositor E For Omnibus

Michael HollandAug 4, 2023

Celebrating the power and joy of words, Compositor E explores the many unlikely fingerprints that write and re-write history.  The play follows 17-year-old apprentice…

Macbeth Spends Summer at The Globe

Macbeth Spends Summer at The Globe

Michael HollandJun 20, 2023

‘Stars, hide your fires. Let not light see my black and deep desires’ One couple’s ruthless quest for power turns nature upside down as…

Dulwich College loans Royal Museum Greenwich Shakespeare’s First Folio for 400th anniversary exhibition

Dulwich College loans Royal Museum Greenwich Shakespeare’s First Folio for 400th anniversary exhibition

Holly O'MahonyApr 6, 2023

One of the UK’s 50 surviving copies of Shakespeare’s First Folio – the first collected edition of William Shakespeare’s plays – has gone on…

Twelfth Night

Twelfth Night

Michael HollandMar 14, 2023

Family favourite BBC CBeebies returns to Shakespeare’s Globe with Twelfth Night for four live performances on 30 and 31 May performed in London’s iconic…

Titus Andronicus By Candlelight

Titus Andronicus By Candlelight

Michael HollandDec 6, 2022

Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus will be performed for the first time in the candelit Sam Wanamaker Playhouse. The deadly revenge tragedy stars Katy Stephens as…

Transfixed By Othello

Transfixed By Othello

Michael HollandDec 5, 2022

You walk into the Lyttleton theatre and there is no hope. You take your seat and there is no hope. You watch the dates…

Hamlet Gets the Lazarus Treatment

Hamlet Gets the Lazarus Treatment

Michael HollandDec 2, 2022

In 2023, one of Shakespeare’s best-known and most regularly revisited tragedies will embark on a new and radical transformation. Lazarus Theatre Company will champion…

War by Candlelight

War by Candlelight

Michael HollandNov 27, 2022

I do like a change of scenery every now and again so a chance to see a bit of Shakespeare at the relatively new…

Othello’s New Vision

Othello’s New Vision

Michael HollandNov 4, 2022

Farewell the tranquil mind. A bright, headstrong daughter of a senator; elevated by her status but stifled by its expectations. A refugee of slavery;…