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MARY AND THE HYENAS Premiere to be Presented by Pilot Theatre And Hull Truck Theatre
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Nov 7, 2024

Pilot Theatre and Hull Truck Theatre will present the premiere of MARY AND THE HYENAS by Maureen Lennon, featuring music by Billy Nomates, set to debut at Hull Truck Theatre and Wilton's Music Hall in early 2025. Learn how to purchase tickets.

Review: MACBETH at Grand Théâtre
by David Sousa Lopes - Oct 29, 2023

For our first show of the season, Broadway World attended the premiere of MacBeth, hosted by our esteemed Grand Théâtre of Luxembourg.

Review: MACBETH, Shakespeare North Playhouse
by Sarah O'Hara - Sep 7, 2023

Macbeth has been brought to the stage once more in a phenomenal production of the drama at the Shakespeare North Playhouse.

Full Cast Revealed For English Touring Theatre's MACBETH
by Stephi Wild - Jul 19, 2023

ETT (English Touring Theatre) has announced full casting for their new production of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, a co-production with Northern Stage, Shakespeare North Playhouse and Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg.  Learn more about the show and the cast here!

ETT Reveals Full Cast and Dates for MACBETH UK and International Tour
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Jul 18, 2023

Get ready for an unforgettable experience as ETT announces the full casting and tour dates for the highly anticipated production of Macbeth. Don't miss out on this thrilling rendition of Shakespeare's classic tragedy, set to tour the UK and international stage.

Full Cast & Creative Team Announced for World Premiere of CORRINA, CORRINA
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Apr 7, 2022

Headlong and Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse have today announced the complete cast and creative team for Corrina, Corrina, a new play by award-winning Liverpool-based playwright Chloe Moss (Run Sister, Run, Love Liverpool), directed by Headlong’s Artistic Director Holly Race Roughan (Metamorphoses).

VIDEO: Royal Shakespeare Company Releases SONNETS IN SOLITUDE
by Chloe Rabinowitz - May 19, 2020

The Royal Shakespeare Company today released Sonnets in Solitude, a selection of Shakespeare's sonnets self-recorded by RSC actors while in lockdown. Many of the actors were working with the RSC at the time of the theatre's temporary closure on 17 March and have been unable to perform or rehearse since.

VIDEO: RSC Actors Help Students Studying Shakespeare Under Lockdown
by Stephi Wild - Apr 27, 2020

As part of the newly launched Royal Shakespeare Community initiative, artists from the Royal Shakespeare Company, who are currently unable to rehearse or perform, will lend a hand in helping to unlock Shakespeare for thousands of children and young people studying at home.

Royal Shakespeare Company Returns To Chicago For First Time In 25 Years
by A.A. Cristi - Feb 14, 2020

Chicago Shakespeare Theater is proud to welcome the return of the world-renowned Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) to Chicago for the first time in nearly 25 years. Chicago Shakespeare will present the company's acclaimed gender-swapped production of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew, directed by Justin Audibert, in a special limited engagement April 15a?"May 2, 2020 in The Yard at Chicago Shakespeare.

BWW Review: THE TAMING OF THE SHREW, Barbican Centre
by Anthony Walker-Cook - Nov 8, 2019

As you enter the Barbican's auditorium to watch the RSC's The Taming of the Shrew, you can't miss the sound of fireworks in the background. It's implied a celebration is coming. As part of this RSC season alongside As You Like It and Measure for Measure, The Taming of the Shrew is directed by Justin Audibert. But is it an explosion of theatrical goodness or a wet fizzle? Prithee, read on to find out.

BWW Review: THE TAMING OF THE SHREW, Royal Shakespeare Theatre
by Gary Naylor - Mar 20, 2019

A bold and often beautifully staged production that makes women men and men women to throw light on the often brutal text. What emerges is plenty of new insight, but the nagging doubt persists that the play just isn't very good.

RSC Will Tour AS YOU LIKE IT, THE TAMING OF THE SHREW and MEASURE FOR MEASURE
by Stephi Wild - Feb 5, 2019

For the first time the Royal Shakespeare Company will tour three productions in repertoire to six regional theatres, playing for two weeks in each venue. As You Like It, The Taming of the Shrew and Measure for Measure will visit Salford in September 2019, and then Canterbury, Plymouth, Nottingham, Newcastle upon Tyne and Blackpool in early 2020. Performance dates at the end of the release.

Casting Announced For RSC 2019 Season: AS YOU LIKE IT, THE TAMING OF THE SHREW, and MEASURE FOR MEASURE
by Stephi Wild - Dec 10, 2018

The collaborative, cross-cast company is announced for the Royal Shakespeare Company's (RSC) productions of As You Like It, The Taming of the Shrew and Measure for Measure, playing in a newly reconfigured Royal Shakespeare Theatre next summer. All three productions will then tour in repertoire for the first time to six regional theatres in 2019 and 2020. The actors will each appear in two of the three plays performed as part of the Summer 2019 repertoire. Design for all three productions is by Stephen Brimson Lewis, Director of Design for the Royal Shakespeare Company.

BWW Review: THE FANTASTIC FOLLIES OF MRS RICH, Swan Theatre
by Debbie Gilpin - Apr 3, 2018

Next up at the RSC's Swan Theatre is an oft-forgotten Restoration comedy by Mary Pix; originally titled The Beau Defeated, Jo Davies' production shifts the focus onto the widowed protagonist with the new title The Fantastic Follies of Mrs Rich. It comes in the same year as two new productions of another Restoration Comedy, The Country Wife, are unveiled at Southwark Playhouse and Chichester's Minerva Theatre - and plays alongside The Duchess of Malfi and Macbeth (in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre).

BWW Review: THE HYPOCRITE, Swan Theatre
by Tim Wright - Apr 6, 2017

"You'd let everyone have the vote? Imagine what idiots would get elected then" is one of many knowing jokes from Richard Bean's latest farce The Hypocrite. We're following the roguish Sir John Hotham, Governor of Hull and MP for Beverley as he tries to sense which way the wind is blowing on the eve of the English Civil War.

Photo Coverage: OUR TOWN In Rehearsal!
by Carrie Dunn - Sep 22, 2014

Award-winning US actor-director David Cromer will direct and perform in this intimate version of Thornton Wilder's iconic American play.

Michael Ajao, Paul Bigley, Arthur Byrne and More Set for OUR TOWN at the Almeida Theatre - Full Cast Announced!
by Christina Mancuso - Aug 21, 2014

Casting is announced for Our Town at the Almeida Theatre. Award-winning US actor-director David Cromer will direct and perform in this intimate version of Thornton Wilder's iconic American play. The cast will also include Michael Ajao, Paul Bigley, Arthur Byrne, Sidney Cole, Kate Dickie, Laura Elsworthy, Anna Francolini, Matthew Jacobs-Morgan, Daniel Kendrick, Simon Lennon, Jessica Lester, Richard Lumsden, Annette McLaughlin, Christopher Staines, Rhashan Stoneand David Walmsley.

Perfect Shadow Presents Two Works of Shakespeare, Now thru Sept 8
by BWW News Desk - Aug 21, 2012

Before the comedies there was The Two Gentlemen of Verona. After the tragedies there was The Two Noble Kinsmen. Perfect Shadow Mingled Yarn presents the two plays that bookend Shakespeare's career as a playwright.

Perfect Shadow to Present Two Works of Shakespeare, Aug. 21 - Sept. 8
by Caryn Robbins - Jul 24, 2012

Before the comedies there was The Two Gentlemen of Verona. After the tragedies there was The Two Noble Kinsmen. Perfect Shadow Mingled Yarn presents the two plays that bookend Shakespeare's career as a playwright.