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Spring brings renewed energy into the year. There isn’t a better moment for the Royal Shakespeare Company’s recently appointed Co-Artistic Directors Daniel Evans and Tamara Harvey to launch their vision for the organisation. Led by a big name that will attract new audiences who are probably younger than your typical RSC crowd, we hope Love’s Labour’s Lost is setting the tone for what’s coming. If this opening is anything to go by, this upcoming era seems to be adopting Shakespeare for ...

Emily Burns’ modern-day romcom, set on a Pacific island retreat, ramps up the silliness and makes accessible the text’s cloud-parting power and wordplay

Review - Love’s Labour’s Lost, RSC, Stratford

BAFTA nominee Rupert Everett stars in a celebrated drama examining the relationship between an eccentric father and his son.

The play encompasses the whole range of human emotions from tragedy to comedy, bathos to pathos, wit and wisdom, satire and compassion all human life is here.

PATRICK MARMION: There can be few harder acts to follow than Laurence Olivier. Why would you even try? Yet thats the task Rupert Everett has set himself in this revival.

Rupert Everett stars in John Mortimer’s celebrated autobiographical play

Former Artistic Director of The National Theatre, Richard Eyre directs an all-star cast in the new Robert Fox, Jonathon Church Theatre and Theatre Royal Bath production of John Mortimer's autobiographical A Voyage Round My Father, with Rupert Everett bringing poignancy and humour to the title role of this deeply sentimental and nostalgic family drama and adding his own brand of charisma to a role earlier embodied by Alec Guinness and Laurence Olivier, and more recently Derek Jacobi in the 2...

BAFTA and Golden Globe nominee Rupert Everett will star in John Mortimers celebrated autobiographical play A Voyage Round My Father at Cambridge…

Richard Eyre’s production of the father-and-son drama has some strong performances but is too light to really probe the play’s plaintive depths