The Taming of the Shrew, Shakespeare’s Globe, 2024
Photo: Ellie Kurttz
Photo: Ellie Kurttz

Shakespeare plays in London

Comedies, tragedies and histories – catch them all in the Bard's spiritual home

Andrzej Lukowski
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Whether you’re planning a trip to the iconic Shakespeare’s Globe theatre, catching a production for the Royal Shakespeare Company or seeing a spot of Shakespearean drama elsewhere in London, here’s where to watch the biggest and best plays by the Bard in London.

Shakespeare plays in London this month

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  • South Bank
  • 5 out of 5 stars
  • Recommended

Coriolanus is the first Shakespeare play Lydsey Turner has directed since her Hamlet, and she’s clearly learned a few tricks over the last decade, because this is tremendous.

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  • Leicester Square
  • 4 out of 5 stars
  • Recommended

I wouldn’t quite say David Tennant has been upstaged by a pair of headphones. But as the two-time Doctor regenerates into Shakespeare’s murderous Scottish monarch, you can’t seriously attend the Donmar’s new production of ‘Macbeth’ and say that Tennant – or for that matter big name co-star Cush Jumbo – feels like the defining element of Max Webster’s production.

Shakespeare plays coming soon

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  • Covent Garden

At the age of 75, Sigourney Weaver – the star of the ‘Alien’, ‘Ghostbusters’ and ‘Avatar’ films – will make her UK stage debut in the first Shakespeare play to be staged at the venerable Theatre Royal Drury Lane for over half a century.

 

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  • Shakespeare
  • Barbican

Although it’s provided a steady pipeline of new plays – including the all conquering ‘My Neighbour Totoro’ – the RSC hasn’t transferred a single Shakespeare to London since 2019…

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  • Tower Bridge

For the Bridge’s first show ‘back’ post-‘Guys & Dolls’, Nicholas Hytner returns to his beloved Shakespeare with a new production of Richard II starring ‘Bridgerton’ hearthrob Jonathan Bailey as the dithering monarch.

Your vote: The top ten Shakespeare plays

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The ten best Shakespeare plays of all time
The ten best Shakespeare plays of all time

To honour the 400th anniversary of the Bard's death, we asked you to rank all of his plays in order of greatness. Here's how the top ten turned out in the ultimate Shakespeare play-off

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