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.
‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ is, of course, Shakespeare’s magical comedy, and it’ll be staged in the evening, with nightfall taking place during the show itself. It’s hard to imagine a more spectacular backdrop.
Shakespeare’s Globe launches its summer season with this sparkling staging of one of the bard’s best comedies. It’s a sun-drenched spectacle that makes full use of the theatre’s crowd-pleasing openness and opportunity for audience interaction…
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Most productions of Shakespeare’s ‘Romeo & Juliet’ are about life: it’s a play about two young people who meet, fall in love and burn through a lifetime in a few days, their passion too intense to be bound to our slow, mundane world. I think Jamie Lloyd’s production of Shakespeare’s ‘Romeo & Juliet’ is about death…
‘The Comedy of Errors’ can sometimes feel like a less successful dry run for the more grown-up ‘Twelfth Night’, both being twin sibling-based mistaken identity comedies set in coastal cities.
The unexpected furor over Michelle Terry playing Richard III has somewhat overshadowed the fact that Shakespeare’s Globe has a disabled lead for one of its big productions this summer, in the form of Nadia Nadarajah.
The last major London production of Coriolanus was way back in 2013, when Tom Hiddleston took on the role at the intimate Donmar Warehouse. Eleven years on and here’s something a bit bigger in scale: screen star David Oyelowo makes his debut in the National Theatre’s huge Olivier to play the role of Shakespeare’s heroic Roman general turned embittered national foe…
The Donmar’s acclaimed binaural ‘Macbeth’ will transfer to the Harold Pinter Theatre in October 2024 with David Tennant and Cush Jumbo returning.
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…
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.
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