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The Box of Delights: a mixed bag – but this children’s Christmas fantasy should delight
The RSC's adaptation of this mystical adventure won't set the world on fire – but it will leave young and old alike feeling pleasingly giddy
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Boiling Point’s Cathy Tyson interview: ‘Calling someone woke is as bad as a racial slur’
The actress talks about the BBC spin-off of the Bafta-nominated film and why she’s finally happy to talk to The Telegraph – with one proviso
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Opera North’s Richard Mantle: ‘The arts should be fun, not planned with a calculator’
Stepping down after 30 years at the company, the general director talks about the art form's constant uphill struggles – and his next move
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Stewart Lee rewrites Macbeth – with some questionable modern ideas
The comedian’s new ‘Porter scene’ is a mess, but this RSC production is saved by its dark atmosphere and Valene Kane’s turn as Lady Macbeth
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The Empress: a splendid Queen Victoria – but history is messier than this
Tanika Gupta’s tale of British-Indian relations during Empire is fascinating on paper but suffers from a broad-brushstroke approach
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The King, Shakespeare and the 400-year-old tradition that binds them together
At an event to mark the First Folio’s anniversary, Charles III is said to annotate his copies of the Bard’s works, just like Charles I
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John Nettleton, RSC stalwart and character actor who played Sir Arnold in Yes Minister – obituary
Resonant of voice, authoritative of manner and with a sturdy physical presence, he was as useful in tragedy as in farce
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Sorry, but Shakespeare just isn’t funny
There’s very little to make you laugh across the Bard’s canon – so what's wrong with the occasional bit of rewriting?
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As You Like It: salutes the golden oldie generation of actors – with sparkling results
The RSC’s conceit takes time to beguile, but fresh humour and poignancy emerge in this commendable take on Shakespeare’s comedy
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Rufus Norris to step down from lead role at National Theatre
Artistic director urges the search for his successor – or successors – to be 'broad and inclusive'
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Glenda Jackson, ‘electrifying’ double Oscar-winning actress who spent 23 years as a Labour MP – obituary
She rose to prominence with the Royal Shakespeare Company and her ‘rich, mighty contralto’ was ‘one of the great voices of the theatre’
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Geraldine James: ‘Sometimes in the mirror I think “who is that old bag?” But I’m proud of my age’
Playing Shakespeare's Rosalind aged 72 makes her the oldest actress to do so. Here, she talks about rejecting facelifts and the joy of work
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Britain’s next great playwrights – as revealed by the RSC
Has the theatre company discovered the new Shakespeare? Here's an exclusive look at its playwriting competition's winners
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Actor with dwarfism triggers ableism warnings for A Midsummer Night’s Dream
The Globe has added to earlier warning of ‘violence, sexual references, misogyny and racism’ after casting role of Hermia
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Terrence Hardiman, actor who became a children’s TV favourite as the ‘Demon Headmaster’ – obituary
Often cast as authority figures or villains, he played a good German in Secret Army and had a gift for comedy
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America’s mob violence and the politics of crude oil weigh on this Julius Caesar
Puzzling staging and unnecessary melodrama obscures the chemistry and clarity of the acting in Atri Banerjee’s wobbly new production
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RSC casts oldest ever Rosalind in ‘grey’ makeover of As You Like It
Geraldine James, 72, will play the heroine of Shakespeare’s comedy which is usually presented as a tale of young love
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The Tempest: Alex Kingston shines in one of the RSC’s most confident evenings in ages
The former Doctor Who star serves up a fascinatingly maternal and down-to-earth Prospero in an often spellbindingly beautiful production
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‘The bowdlerisation of Shakespeare’: is it right to alter the Bard’s texts to fit modern-day morals?
As the First Folio of his plays turns 400, might now be the perfect time for directors to get back to basics?
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Brutus is now a knife-wielding woman in Royal Shakespeare Company's new Julius Caesar
Thalissa Teixeira will be the first female Brutus ever cast by the theatre company in an upcoming gender-swapping production
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Adrian Edmondson proves a joyously propulsive Scrooge in this lavish RSC revival
He may no longer be a Young One, but the former Vyvyan's energy levels haven't dipped one bit – and the show is superb
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Peep Show's Paterson Joseph: ‘Yes, David Starkey, we are rewriting history – because you wrote it badly’
The Vigil star on his ground-breaking debut novel – a love letter to the first black man to vote in England
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All’s Well That Ends Well with adolescent lust and social-media fever – or does it?
Shakespeare’s ‘problem’ play is given a literal glow-up by the RSC in Stratford, but even that update can’t straighten its issues out
