Shakespeare plays in London

Summer-centric outdoor company Shakespeare in the Squares has hitherto toured only well-known Shakespeare plays on its annual jaunts through London’s leafiest squares. But there’s an intriguing break with tradition this year as it turns to ‘All’s Well That Ends Well’, the Bard’s relatively little-known comedy…

Having directed a couple of shows in the Sam Wanamaker, hip director Jude Christian makes the leap to the main Globe theatre for the first time as she tackles a typically thorny play; Shakespeare’s ‘Taming of the Shrew’. 

‘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.

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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