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Jamie Lloyd’s youthfully intense staging gives us a Juliet for the ages; Michelle Terry’s king rises above the disability row; and the European premiere of a Broadway musical rocks but doesn’t soar

When Michelle Terry, the boss at Shakespeares Globe, announced that she was going to play the Bards disabled anti-hero Richard III, she was greeted with howls of outrage.

When Michelle Terry, the artistic director at Shakespeare’s Globe theater in London, decided to put on a production of “Richard III” wi

Michelle Terry plays the king as a playfully antic sociopath in a lively production full of effective performances

The show will tour this autumn

Shropshire’s rural theatre company, Pentabus, is continuing its 50th birthday celebrations with a fundraising walk on Sunday, April 14th.

Meet Richard: the man, the myth, the monster. A new production of Shakespeare’s Richard III unfolds in the Globe Theatre this summer, with Artistic Director Michelle Terry in the title role. Richard can taste the throne but before he can place the English crown on his own head, he must first set in motion a series of villainous events that threaten the lives of everyone around him. Imagine a world in which self-serving ambition is audaciously paraded and pursued, and murderous crimes are commi...

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Michelle Terry, who will play the villainous protagonist at Shakespeares Globe Theatre in London from May-August, released a statement.

Disabled actors respond to the announcement that Michelle Terry, the Globe’s artistic director, will be taking up the role