A Jacobean theatre like the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse will have witnessed most extremes of human behaviour, but this soaringly irreverent, camper than tinsel, and – let’s face it - outrageously Eighties ...

Not for the first time down by the Thames, genders are flipped, Cymbeline the Queen of a matriarchal Britain, resisting the demands for tribute from a machismo-sodden Italy. Her daughter, Innogen, is ...

The titular Duchess has been widowed, and her possessive brothers (Ferdinand and the Cardinal) do not want her to remarry - to this end, they place ex-con Bosola in her court as a spy, allowing them ...

The Malcontent, John Marston's best known play, was first performed in the Blackfrairs playhouse by the Children of the Chapel, a company of young players probably aged between 11 and 14. So it seems ...

Shakespeare’s Globe has announced a "triumphant" first season in its indoor Sam Wanamaker Playhouse. The inaugural season, which ran from January to April in the candlelit venue, saw average audiences ...

This rarely-staged late Shakespearean romance gets a bold, vivid production from Jennifer Tang that matches its hectic mix of comedy, horror and absurdity. King Cymbeline here becomes a Queen (Martina ...

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‘Come again, sweet love doth now invite’ – after last month’s Queen’s Command, we required no persuasion to obey this invitation, a packed theatre all set to enjoy the finest counter-tenor voice of ...

LONDON—Shakespeare’s Globe has deployed Riedel’s Bolero intercom system for communications at its Globe Theatre and Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, Riedel said. The Bolero intercom system addresses the need ...