By Martin Chilton for the Telegraph, 30 December 2015 William Shakespeare, once banned and denounced under Chairman Mao’s Cultural Revolution, will gain a new Chinese audience in 2016 when the Royal Shakespeare Company embarks on its first major tour of China. Shakespeare’s works were banned in China from 1964 to 1977 and the playwright was denounced as “revisionist, feudalist and capitalist” and […]
By Tim Masters for BBC News, 27 December 2015 A look at some of the highlights of what theatres around the UK have to offer in 2016. Two names are set to dominate the theatre landscape over the coming months: William Shakespeare and Harry Potter. A wealth of productions marking the 400th anniversary of the Bard’s death will be taking […]
By Emma Boyle for Gadgette, 2 December 2015 When you’re short on time and money, it’s not the easiest thing in the world to take an evening out and splash the cash on some tickets to see a play, or go to the ballet, or an opera. Sometimes it’s not even time and money, it’s just a simple matter of […]
Alice Vincent for The Telegraph, 3 December 2015 There may have been five “droppers” – a theatrical term for fainting audience members – overcome by the fake bloodshed at Titus Andronicus at The Globe last year, but one new play is promising considerably more than the nine brutal on-stage deaths in Shakespeare’s first tragedy. The Complete Deaths will detail all of the Bard’s […]
Reuters, 27 November 2015 A live broadcast of Judi Dench and Kenneth Branagh starring in Shakespeare’s “The Winter’s Tale” was the biggest cinema box office draw in Britain on the night of the screening, the show’s publicists said on Friday. The three-hour-long play, broadcast from London to 520 cinemas across Britain on Thursday night, took in 1.1 million pounds ($1.65 […]
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