Peter Bourke

Cast Announced For Shakespeare's Globe's SHAKESPEARE IN THE ABBEY

As celebrations continue for the 400th Anniversary of the First Folio across 2023, Shakespeare’s Globe will return to Westminster Abbey for the hugely popular Shakespeare in the Abbey for six special performances beginning this evening and running until Friday 31 March.

Review: THE TEMPEST, Shakespeare's Globe

Love Island meets Below Deck in Benidorm in this OTT aestival pastiche. Prospero dons a speedo. Questionable tattoos cover a few of the cast. The most unpredictable of twists stretches the limits of copyright infringement. It’s absolutely bonkers, but it works! Holmes delivers a modern, refreshing, and unconventional take.

Photos: Inside Rehearsal For THE TEMPEST at Shakespeare's Globe

Rehearsal images have been released for The Tempest running this summer at Shakespeare’s Globe from 22 July - 22 October.  Check out the photos here!

Shakespeare's Globe Announces Full Cast of THE TEMPEST

Shakespeare's Globe has announced the cast and company for a new production of The Tempest running this summer from 22 July - 22 October, directed by Sean Holmes. Shakespeare's tumultuous tale of reckoning and redemption will be brought to life by the Globe Ensemble, who have been thrilling audiences in the critically acclaimed season opening production of Much Ado About Nothing which runs until 23 October.

Cast Announced for MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING at Shakespeare's Globe

Shakespeare’s Globe has announced the cast and company for Much Ado About Nothing, directed by Lucy Bailey. This will be performed by the Globe Ensemble who will be returning for The Tempest on 22 July.

Shakespeare's Globe Announces Summer Season 2022

Shakespeare's Globe has announced the Summer Season 2022 full of pomp, pageantry, politics, and power.

Casting Announced For HAMLET at Shakespeare's Globe

Shakespeare's Globe has announced the full cast of Hamlet which will be performed for the very first time in the candlelit Sam Wanamaker Playhouse by the Globe Ensemble, directed by Associate Artistic Director Sean Holmes.

BWW Review: A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, Shakespeare's Globe

One of London’s most venerated theatres, Shakespeare's Globe has re-opened its doors with Sean Holmes’s gaudy 2019 production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. With staggered entrance slots and social distance protocols in place, the Globe itself feels it too. The groundlings are masked now (as is the audience as a whole) and are seated on scattered chairs while the actors wear face coverings when they walk among them.

Shakespeare's Globe Reopens Outdoor Theatre From 19 May

Shakespeare's Globe is preparing to reopen its outdoor theatre on 19 May 2021. Provided the conditions are met for Step 3 of the Government's roadmap for cultural reopening, the Globe will be welcoming audiences in for socially distanced performances, having closed on 18 March 2020.

BWW Review: A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, Shakespeare's Globe

Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream seems to be this season's go-to comedy and, from Nicholas Hytner's lightly immersive offering at the Bridge Theatre to the smaller productions dotted around London, it's delighting audiences young and old.

Shakespeare's Globe Announces Full Casting For A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM

Shakespeare's Globe has announced the full cast for William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, directed by Sean Holmes. Sean joined the Globe as Associate Artistic Director after almost a decade as Artistic Director of the Lyric Hammersmith. A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare's evergreen comedy of chaos and order, opens on Friday 28 June in The Globe Theatre. Bottom will be played by Jocelyn Jee Esien, returning to the Globe following her titular role of Dr Faustus.

Cast Announced as John Cleese Collaborates with the Mercury Theatre Colchester in BANG BANG

???????One of Britain's most revered comedy icons, John Cleese, will collaborate with the Mercury Theatre Colchester to bring his brand new adaption of Georges Feydeau's hysterical farce, Bang Bang, to the stage this Spring.

CLARION Coming to Arcola Theatre

Following an acclaimed, sell-out run in April, Critics' Circle award-winner Greg Hicks and three-time Olivier award-winner Clare Higgins are to resume their starring roles in Mark Jagasia's Clarion, one of the smash-hit plays of the year.

BWW Reviews: CLARION, Arcola Theatre, April 22 2015

Gary Naylor sees a wonderfully funny swearfest of a comedy set in the moral cesspit of a newspaper not too dissimilar to one or two in a newsagent near you.

Photo Flash: Clare Higgins, Greg Hicks and More Lead CLARION, Opening Tonight

Scroll down for a look at the world premiere of the explosive Fleet Street black comedy CLARION! Press night is tonight 22 April at 7.30pm.

Photo Flash: First Look at Clare Higgins, Greg Hicks and More in CLARION World Premiere

Scroll down for a first look at the world premiere of the explosive Fleet Street black comedy CLARION!

Clare Higgins and Greg Hicks Star in CLARION World Premiere, Beginning Tonight at the Arcola

Two of the most highly acclaimed British actors of their generation, Clare Higgins and Greg Hicks, are to star in the World Premiere of Clarion, set in the office of Britain's worst newspaper, the Daily Clarion.

Photo Flash: In Rehearsal with the Cast of CLARION at Arcola Theatre

Rehearsal photos have been released today from the world premiere of the explosive Fleet Street black comedy CLARION.