Reviews
Boudica – Review
| September 14, 2017
The Summer of Love season at Shakespeare’s Globe ends in spectacular style with a story of rape, pillage and torture. I’m beginning to wonder about Emma Rice’s definition
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Michelle Terry succeeds Emma Rice as The Globe’s director
| July 24, 2017
Michelle Terry has been announced as the new artistic director of Shakespeare’s Globe, succeeding Emma Rice from April although, in reality, she moves to the post this October.
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London and West End
Tristan & Yseult – Review
| June 18, 2017
Watching Emma Rice’s brilliantly conceived romantic tragedy, Tristan & Yseult, which is playing at Shakespeare’s Globe this week, it is blindingly obvious why the powers-that-be hired her to
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Kevin McNally to play King Lear at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre
| April 10, 2017
Stage and screen star, Kevin McNally is to take the title role in the Shakespeare’s Globe production of King Lear, playing on Bankside, this summer. Kevin is best
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London and West End
Macbeth – Review
| June 24, 2016
Shakespeare’s darkest of plays, Macbeth, isn’t the first you’d associate with comedy, much less stand up and vaudeville, but the brightest moments in Iqbal Khan’s disappointing production at
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Emma Rice launches debut Wonder Season at Shakespeare’s Globe
| January 14, 2016
Emma Rice’s tenure as artistic director at Shakespeare’s Globe begins with the 2016 Wonder Season which opens with A Midsummer Night’s Dream in April. It is set to
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Globe trotting scenes from Shakespeare for anniversary walk
| November 20, 2015
Actors are being dispatched around the globe, taking realism to a whole new level, for a free festival of Shakespeare coming to London’s South Bank next spring. Over
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Jonathan Pryce is right for Sherlock in Globe’s Merchant Of Venice
| January 6, 2015
Multi award-winning actor Jonathan Pryce will play Shylock in Jonathan Munby’s forthcoming production of The Merchant of Venice, opening the Globe’s 2015 summer season on April 23. The
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Shakespeare’s Globe offers theatre on demand
| November 10, 2014
Shakespeare’s Globe has joined the digital revolution in British theatre by launching its productions on a video-on-demand platform. Globe Player, a new online service offers full-length HD films
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The Globe’s Hamlet world tour gets UNESCO patronage
| November 5, 2014
Shakespeare’s Globe has said that its Globe to Globe Hamlet, an ambitious two-year tour to every country in the world, has been granted UNESCO patronage. Dominic Dromgoole, artistic
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