Sometimes small moments speak volumes.  Robert Icke's production starring Andrew Scott has numerous innovations, but the most potent, ...

When this project began over a decade ago, one of the prescribed rules was that only production which utilised Shakespeare's text woul...

Books In an effort to acknowledge the passage of time and how even some of their Third Series publications might require some reconsiderat...

Theatre Let's begin at the ending or indeed further than the ending into the credits which include the following statement: "Th...

Hamlet played by Christopher Plummer. Directed by Philip Saville. Woosh. Ever since seeing a clip of Plummer's Hamlet narrating th...

Theatre  After a couple of years away from the core series whilst they pay attention to other Early Modern Dramas, Arden returns to Shakesp...

Hamlet played by Zach Appelman. Directed by Robert Richmond. The Shakespeare Folger Library, in conjunction with Simon & Schuster ...

As the BBC website describes, in The Secret Life of Books , "Six classic British books are considered with a fresh eye. Returning to ...

Across my two blogs I receive a lot of press releases and every now and then there's something relevant which is worth quoting in full. ...

Having recently availed myself of an ipad I've had a chance to experience the National Theatre's new archive app highlighting fifty...

Like most of culture or indeed everything with a history, theatrical history tends to be considered in chunks which in the case of early mod...

Peake is due to play Hamlet at Manchester's Royal Exchange.  Here she talks to Creative Tourist about the why question : “Male actors ...

Yesterday for Shakespeare's birthday, The Guardian published forty-five images of Hamlet from various productions. Which was essential...

Today would have been Shakespeare's 450th birthday, so to celebrate let's delve again into the Pathe archive to see how it was marke...

Shellshocked. That's the only reaction one can draw from receiving a PR email from the venerable The New Yorker magazine about the Shak...

As you might have heard, British Pathe have taken the rather epic decision to upload much of their archive to Youtube , around eighty-five t...

In a bid to pull together more funding for the Globe to Globe tour, The Globe has begun a Kickstarter . Here's the widget: They...

Just a quick note to say that Radio 4's Drama of the Week podcast is episode one of Hamlet. You can download it here. Hopefully the ...

GUARDIAN: US to stop bulk collection of phone records #TomorrowsPapersToday #BBCPapers pic.twitter.com/oen5gSH0xJ — Neil Henderson (@hen...

Genuinely surprised. Here is Hamlet spread across the whole week in the prestigious 2:15pm slot in five parts (an act per day?) starting nex...

At Illuminations, sorry @illuminations, noticed a good case of burying the headline in a Michael Billington column about BBC radio's ad...

The press release for BBC's new Radio 4 awareness drive, the clunkily titled "Character Invasion" does include this interestin...

Gabriel Axel, the director of Hamlet reimagining The Prince of Jutland died recently and The Guardian has an obituary which includes this nu...

From the BBC's press office : "Kenneth Branagh and Alex Kingston to star in new BBC Radio 3 drama of Antony And Cleopatra for Sha...

Philip Sandifer is writing about the history of Doctor Who within a historical and somewhat literary criticism context which sometimes inclu...

In the past few months, The New York Times has been tasking high school students with creating short performances of fragments of Hamlet thr...

Well, this is exciting news.  Here's the full press release because it is such exciting news. FOR RELEASE ON DVD DECEMBER 8 2013 I...

Oh the apocrypha, the elusive teasing Shakespeare apocrypha, plays which somewhere along the line, either because a publisher ambiguously sl...