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A non-verbal physical theatre interpretation of Shakespeare’s tragedy King Lear, by award-winning director Shu-wing Tang and performed by an all-female cast, is receiving its UK premiere at Riverside Studios in Hammersmith from Thursday 2 – Sunday 12 May. Check out production photos here!

Cutting Shakespeare isn’t rare, with time restraint and accessible efficiency at the top of the list. What happens when you remove the text altogether, leaving only the bare bones of the story? Hong Kongese company Nonverbal Theatre of Gesture have the answer.

Simon Chambers’ film about his late uncle David makes for candid and compelling viewing. Along with one of David’s former pupils, and a fan of his film, he talks care, contempt and infatuation

Simon Chambers' moving and often funny film Much Ado About Dying documents his time as one of the UK’s millions of unpaid carers.

Netflix film Unfrosted, by Jerry Seinfeld, is about the 1960s creation of the Pop-Tart – and features Hugh Grant, Nazis and a milkman mafia.

Simon Chambers’ documentary is unsparing in capturing his theatrical relation’s endearing, sometimes desperate and often infuriating decline

Theatre performances include scripted and improvised comedy, a reimagining of a Shakespeare classic and a fairy tale around climate change.

The Hackney-born actor is familiar from screen roles in Penny Dreadful and Black Panther but after conquering Lear he plays an ex NYPD cop at…

The Royal Shakespeare Company’s co-artistic directors have put together a challenging debut season. But many visitors come to Stratford-upon-Avon seeking something more traditional.

Underlying all the problems that Europe faces in a new age of geopolitical, economic, and climate insecurity is a crisis in leadership. Judging by his recent speech at the Sorbonne, French president Emmanuel Macron could be the politician to supply it, but only if he abandons his standard political playbook