Royal Shakespeare Company
The week in theatre: The Years; Pericles – review
Pericles review – Alfred Enoch rules the stage in a neglected Shakespeare
Observer New Review Q&A
Paapa Essiedu: ‘Is this part harder than Hamlet? Yeah, it’s different gravy, mate’ The actor on his challenging new West End role, sweating profusely on stage, and why he almost became a doctor
As You Like It review – the RSC’s garden party is altogether too ordinary
Gender games, rebirth and affection remain in this 80-minute slash of the Shakespeare romcom, which is stylish but short on invention
The School for Scandal review – a triumph of style over substance
The School for Scandal review – gen Z glow up is all style and no snap
No rest for the wicked: The School for Scandal at the RSC – in pictures
The week in theatre: The Constituent; Kyoto; Mean Girls – review
James Corden and Anna Maxwell Martin struggle for urgency in Joe Penhall’s drama about a threatened female MP; climate crisis talks are turned into a whirligig show; and Tina Fey’s musical of the 2004 film is pink and perky
Kyoto review – 1997 protocol on climate crisis fuels gripping theatre at the RSC
Stephen Kunken’s Republican ringmaster narrates this gripping account of the negotiation of the first international treaty on tackling climate change
‘We want the audience to feel there is hope’: how to write a play about the climate crisis, by the team behind The Jungle and Little Amal
The Merry Wives of Windsor review – belting revenge comedy in modern middle England
‘The war was not going to stop me’: amateur Ukrainian actors stage King Lear in UK
Need proof who wrote Shakespeare’s plays? See The Merry Wives of Windsor
English review – acclaimed Iran-set classroom drama is a bit too well-behaved
English review – Pulitzer-winning classroom play doesn’t quite make the grade
The week in theatre: The Buddha of Suburbia; Love’s Labour’s Lost – review
The Buddha of Suburbia review – playful spin through Hanif Kureishi’s novel
‘I know what it’s like to be stared at’: Shardlake star Arthur Hughes on playing CJ Sansom’s disabled Tudor sleuth
Studio Ghibli’s work ‘like Shakespeare’, says My Neighbour Totoro stage show’s director
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