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As Queen Camilla celebrates the 400th-anniversary of Shakespeare’s First Folio, we look back at the best Hamlets of the 21st century

FOLLOWING the sold out run of Lovesong in 2019, Red ‘n Blue Theatre Company returns to Garter Lane this month with Bridget O’Connor’s award-winning comedy The…

Little Amal stirred hearts, Chaucer hit Willesden, Cush Jumbo was a perfect prince, and once again James Graham said it all

Which shows claimed the top spots?

It was a year of revivals in every sense, as venues threw open their doors again. From fresh takes on classics to blazing new talents and shows that captured the current moment, our critics pick their favourites of the year

Cush Jumbo is a perfect prince, Ben Miles bows out as Hilary Mantel’s Cromwell, while Caryl Churchill gets to the heart of love and loss in under 20 minutes

As a British actress who found fame in the US, starring in The Good Fight, Cush Jumbo now makes a glorious return to our stages.

PATRICK MARMION: Jumbo is best known from TVs American legal dramas The Good Wife and The Good Fight, but shes got oodles of experience in Shakespeare, too.

At long last, the Young Vic has unveiled Cush Jumbo and Greg Hersov's hugely anticipated and much delayed collaboration on Hamlet. Jumbo, familiar to many from the US series The Good Fight, joins the ranks of female actors who have tackled the gargantuan role of the Danish Prince in Shakespeare's great tragedy. In Hersov's abstracted - and often unwieldy - Elsinore, she portrays with charming confidence an increasingly charismatic Hamlet whose masculine pronouns are retained, but who...

Youthful Elsinore reflects life in present-day London. Theatre review by Heather Neill