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Epstein Theatre announces first events

Love’s Labour’s Lost, Shakespeare’s early comedy, doesn’t often get staged these days. Even the RSC only seems to return to it every...

Five open-air touring productions will be staged in the Garden Theatre at Calderstones Mansion this summer. Travelling theatre troupes...

The Merchant of Venice has long been described as a ‘problem play’. Is it a comedy or a tragedy? And is Shakespeare condoning...

Some of Shakespeare’s best-known female characters take to the stage at the Unity Theatre this month – but not as you’re ever likely to...

An acclaimed new version of The Merchant of Venice which relocates the story to 1930s London is heading for Liverpool next spring....

Off the Ground Theatre is taking Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing on an open-air tour this summer. The Wirral-based theatre company,...

Not Too Tame positions itself as ‘great night out specialists’ with high-octane storytelling at the heart of everything it does....

Les Dennis will don Malvolio’s yellow stockings to appear in a new production of Twelfth Night at Shakespeare North Playhouse this...

It’s easy to take Shakespeare for granted. The man and his works have always been there as a presence in our lives – both on stage and in...

A rare copy of the Bard’s First Folio is on display at Shakespeare North Playhouse this autumn to mark the 400th anniversary of its...