Shakespeare

Chapter and verse on the unknowable Bard

The striking thing about Sir Stanley’s Shakespeare is how unsexy he is

Books
The music of the Bard

A great tradition of Shakespearean songs have been all but forgotten

Artillery Row
Twin totems of Teutonic angst

The German obsession with Goethe’s Faust and Shakespeare’s Hamlet

Features
Counterfeit Cleese

Coates on Cleese, Collins and Cole

Columns
Instruments of shock and awe

Jean Sibelius/Arne Nordheim; The Tempest (Naxos/LAWO)

Lebrecht's Album of the Week
Who should run the RSC next?

Someone has to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune

Artillery Row
Joie de vivre

Has the National Theatre brought back fun?

Artillery Row
I’ll meet you at the cemetery gates

A new production of Hamlet takes one too many leaves out of Morrissey’s playbook

Artillery Row
All mouth, no trousers?

Kenneth Branagh does seem to like taking his clothes off

Artillery Row
Double trouble in chaotic Comedy

Great times to be had in Canterbury despite occasionally clunky comedy and some scandalously overpriced wine

On Theatre