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Romeo & Juliet review roundup: What critics are saying about Tom Holland’s Shakespeare starring role

‘It is all very clever, but to what end?’ one writer asked

The Independent UK

Romeo & Juliet review: Tom Holland’s star-cross’d sad boy lover falls flat

Hot on the heels of his triumphant ‘Sunset Boulevard’ revival, Jamie Lloyd has recruited one of the biggest young stars in Hollywood to take on Shakespeare – but this stripped back production needs more passion and energy to make it stand out

The Independent UK

Hay Festival 2024: our guide to this year’s highlights

Judi Dench talking Shakespeare, conversations with bestsellers Marian Keyes and David Nicholls, and a deep dive into the day’s news with Independent journalists and leading thinkers – this year’s Hay Festival programme is fit to burst with unmissable events. Jessie Thompson picks the highlights

The Independent UK

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Richard III at Shakespeare's Globe review: Michelle Terry shines but the show is shouty and unfocused

Bizarre pacing choices and gabbled lines undermine the production – but the Globe’s artistic director makes for a compelling king

Evening Standard

Richard III review – a fast-paced study of toxic masculinity with an almost entirely female cast

Michelle Terry portrays the king as a playfully antic sociopath in a lively production full of effective performances

The Guardian - UK

‘The level of hate was dangerous’: Michelle Terry on the backlash to her casting as Richard III

Artistic director of Shakespeare’s Globe says much of the anger about a non-disabled actor playing the role has been misogynistic

The Guardian - UK

Need proof who wrote Shakespeare’s plays? See The Merry Wives of Windsor

Set for revival at the RSC, this perfectly structured revenge comedy has an earthy vitality that no aristo or scholar could have created

The Guardian - UK

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Tom Holland shows off new look in Romeo And Juliet as fans greet star's West End return

British actor Tom Holland has styled a shorter haircut as first-look pictures show his return to the West End for a production of Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet.

Evening Standard

The Winter’s Tale review – Royal Ballet’s powerful war of the worlds

Christopher Wheeldon strips Shakespeare’s play of needless distractions in this boldly choreographed, nuanced masterpiece

The Guardian - UK

Benjamin Millepied on queering Romeo and Juliet: ‘In France they called me woke’

The Black Swan choreographer is bringing his unique take on Shakespeare to Sydney – involving cameras and dancers running outside the Opera House

The Guardian - AU

‘They’re teaching me’: Greg Doran on staging Shakespeare’s unloved Two Gents with students

The theatre director, now teaching at Oxford after years running the RSC, thinks The Two Gentlemen of Verona is perfect for a young cast to argue over. We go into rehearsals

The Guardian - UK

Twelfth Night at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre review: stylish and surprisingly sexy Shakespeare

This playful and gorgeously designed take on a perennial favourite is only marred by a lack of pace

Evening Standard

Literary Subfields, Ecocriticism, and the Eclipse of the Humanities

Len Gutkin in Liberties on the decline of the humanities.

Reason

York International Shakespeare festival review – the bard without borders

Footsbarn’s Twelfth Night and a Turkish Macbeth rubbed shoulders with manga, memoir and a Ukrainian scratch show at this boundary-defying festival

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The week in theatre: The Buddha of Suburbia; Love’s Labour’s Lost – review

A new era at the RSC opens with a potent staging by Emma Rice and Hanif Kureishi of his classic everyman tale and a clever take on Shakespeare’s comedy that cuts through the verbiage – with help from a Bridgerton stalwart

Evening Standard

Much Ado About Nothing at Shakespeare’s Globe review: this sunkissed production is joyful and intelligent

Amalia Vitale and Ekow Quartey are arch and spirited as the central, wittily unwilling lovers

The Guardian - UK

Tiny North Yorkshire museum shortlisted for national prize

Craven museum in Skipton is up against cultural titans such as National Portrait Gallery and Young V&A

Evening Standard

Best books about gardens to read in 2024

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Studio Ghibli’s work ‘like Shakespeare’, says My Neighbour Totoro stage show’s director

Hayao Miyazaki’s animations praised by Phelim McDermott as new production in West End announced

Evening Standard

David Tennant and Cush Jumbo's acclaimed Macbeth heads to the West End

Max Webster’s haunting, sell-out production returns this autumn

The Guardian - UK

‘I was only able to go on stage hammered’: David Harewood on acting, racism and his new role at Rada

He had barely started his career when abuse left him mentally ill. But he went on to phenomenal success – and has just been made president of the UK’s leading drama school

The Guardian - UK

The Last Caravaggio review – a gripping and murderously dark finale

Rage, slaughter, death, regret … The Martyrdom of Saint Ursula, believed to be Caravaggio’s last work, is so astonishing, it deserves to be a one-painting blockbuster

The Guardian - US

Kit Connor and Rachel Zegler to lead ‘brutal’ Romeo + Juliet on Broadway

Acclaimed director Sam Gold will adapt the Shakespeare tragedy with new music from hitmaker and Taylor Swift collaborator Jack Antonoff

The Guardian - UK

Post your questions for Bryce Dallas Howard

The dinosaur-chasing actor will take your questions on her extraordinary range of stage, film and TV roles from Shakespeare to Black Mirror to Rocketman

The Guardian - US

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