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There are only two women " Portia and Calpurnia " in Julius Caesar and both of these wives have important things to say but find themselves sidelined.
Unlike novels, plays are cryogenic. Novels are taken from their shelves, browsed in, read or reread. Most plays remain frozen in archives and libraries, awaiting the kiss of life.
Ten choice examples from the array of festive fare on offer this winter.
Ashton Kutcher as Apple co-founder Steve Jobs and Amanda Seyfried as porn star Linda Lovelace are among the highlights at January's Sundance Film Festival.
Last year, I attended a performance of Handel's opera Rodelinda. With fewer than 200 seats in the venue there was no lengthy climb up to the balcony, no seat without a perfect view. And with…
On an unassuming grey door on the concourse of London Bridge station, there's a sign: "No access to Shunt." To most commuters, if they notice it at all, it will mean nothing. For a lucky few…
The Old Vic is to get even older this year, with two of the most celebrated lovers penned by Shakespeare to be played by acting "titans" who are twice the usual age the characters are played.
Sex And The City's Kim Cattrall will take to the Old Vic stage next year playing a fading Hollywood star in a revival of Tennessee Williams' Sweet Bird Of Youth.
Mark Rylance is to direct Vanessa Redgrave and James Earl Jones in Much Ado About Nothing at the Old Vic.
How far would you go to prove that you had not become stuffy and predictable? That's one of the questions posed by Straight, D C Moore's entertaining rewrite of the 2009 US Indie movie, Hump…
Kate Prince, the founder of ZooNation hip hop dance company, brought two hundred of her dancers to celebrate the organisation's tenth birthday party.
Dame Helen Mirren has admitted to having misgivings about playing the Queen for a second time. The actress's 2006 Oscar-winning role as The Queen will be reprised in a West End play The Audi…
Christmas is a time when odd things happen in the name of tradition " bringing trees indoors, men coming down chimneys, eating brussels sprouts " yet few are as barmy, enduring or well-loved…
The year is 1957, and Sputnik has just breathtakingly launched into space as Franklin, a fledgling American composer, gazes up at the stars and jubilantly welcomes the dawning of a new age, …
Terry Jones, Michael Palin and Eric Idle are due to appear as witnesses next week as the latest row about royalties from the Monty Python musical Spamalot reaches the High Court.
Members of comic tour de force Monty Python are embroiled in a legal dispute over hit musical Spamalot that has been taken to the High Court.
Danny is a young gay primary school schoolteacher who, with his husband Joe, has applied to adopt a child. It's all looking pretty good on that front and the couple are in a state of nervous…
A suited and booted David Beckham driving a speedboat down the Thames with the Olympic flame at its helm was one of the defining images of the London 2012 Games.
How would you react if someone stole your life? That's the question posed in Laurence Boswell's new adaptation of Dostoevsky's 1846 novella The Double.
Is this a digger I see before me? The picturesque cottage where Anne Hathaway was wooed by her future husband William Shakespeare has become the focus of a legal battle as local councillors …
Be captivated by this dazzlingly original take on the classic fairy tale.
The Royal Shakespeare Company is the natural home for Pushkin's great drama with its echoes of Macbeth and the history plays and its prudent policy of commenting on the political turmoil of …
He has written the Best Play of the year, according to the Evening Standard Theatre Awards but Nick Payne doesn't make life easy for those who have to stage Constellations.
If you ask Richard Thomas, the writer/ composer behind Jerry Springer: The Opera, to write your Christmas show, you shouldn't expect sugar-coated seasonal fare.
There can't be too many children's stage shows that could cite Martin Scorsese's mafia movie GoodFellas as an artistic influence, and less still that have drawn on Thomas Mann's tortured hom…
