This evening (Monday) a tree took centre stage ahead of curtain-up at the RSC when it shred a large bough and blocked ...

Radiohead has been noted for its music and style reflecting the alienation of modern life, here speaking urgently to Shakespeare’s iconic eponymous hero’s plight.

New for this year The Brian Croft Behind the Scenes Award sponsored by PRG recognises an individual who has supported the art ...

I t was only February when we headed to Stratford-upon-Avon to review Hamlet, so it comes as quite the surprise to head ...

William Shakespeare's "Hamlet" was playing Friday inside the curfew zone set up to control protests in Los Angeles.

The safe transfer of power in post-war Western democracies was once a given. The homely Pickfords Removals van outside Number ...

Hamlet Hail to the Thief races through Shakespeare’s 425-year-old tragedy in a swift, tightly focused 1 hour and 40 minutes.

Mystery and menace dominate from the outset, as swirling mist envelopes a hanging scaffold of faceless, grey suits, above ...

Peter Ormerod reviews Hamlet Hail to the Thief, presented by the RSC and Factory International at the Royal Shakespeare ...

Hamlet’s juddering decline is matched elsewhere in a production not short on madness. Paul Hilton gives Claudius a seriously ...

Christine [Jones, co-director] describes the show as having a dark obsidian emotional heart and that's what we’re going for.

The story of the art-rock trailblazers misfiring sixth album, one that even the band themselves confess is "a lower part of ...