I’d never read or seen Coriolanus before a group of friends and I went out to see Tom Hiddleston as the eponymous lead in an NT Live broadcast. During intermission, one of my friends leaned across our ...

The RSC has announced full details of its Summer 2027 programme, which sees Emmy and Golden Globe award-winning actor ...

MOVIE REVIEW: With Coriolanus, Ralph Fiennes takes one of Shakespeare's last and least-understood plays and drags it kicking, screaming and bleeding into the present day. This is a passion project for ...

Shakespeare’s unloved tragedy about populism and hubris in Ancient Rome is often regarded as a poor cousin to Julius Caesar. Its plot is less dynamic, its unyielding protagonist, who is forced ...

One of the pleasures and marvels of reading Shakespeare now, 401 years after his death, comes from encountering a passage or even a line that resonates as if written today, as though to demonstrate ...

Today brings the first images from Ralph Fiennes’ adaptation of Shakespeare’s Coriolanus, a family-political tragedy set in ancient Rome. Making his directorial debut, Fiennes transplants the action ...

A chamber production of Coriolanus? It sounds a contradiction in terms. But, as the programme points out, Shakespeare's epic Roman play was probably first staged in the small-scale Blackfriars theatre ...

Jonathan Cake and Kate Burton star in the Central Park production of Shakespeare's lesser-known, politically resonant tragedy 'Coriolanus.' By Frank Scheck The new Shakespeare in the Park production ...