When your Broadway show is actually two plays, which one do you do for the official opening performance? You do ’em both, which is what they did for the Mark Rylance-led stagings of Shakespeare’s ...

Richard III opened at Shakespeare’s Globe last night (25 July 2012, previews from 14 July), directed by Tim Carroll. Starring Mark Rylance, the production is an all-male version of Shakespeare’s ...

Every few years, it seems, a new British stage actor becomes the darling of American critics looking to anoint a new Olivier. Ian McKellen had his moment, and, more recently, Michael Gambon and Simon ...

Richard Duke of Gloucester (Rylance) is determined that he should wear the crown of England. He has already despatched one king and that king’s son; now all that stand in his way are two credulous ...