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Experience Macbeth by candlelight at Shakespeare North Playhouse this autumn
Shakespeare North Playhouse will hope it’s not ‘out, out brief candle!’ when it stages a special production of Macbeth this autumn. The Prescot theatre is set to present Macbeth by candlelight from September 11 to October 3. And it is promising each performance will be unique with the cast and creative team inspired by Elizabethan theatre techniques. Macbeth will be directed by Shakespeare North associate artist Ben Crystal who will also act as ‘curator and co-facilitator’, w
Follow the Dream at Shakespeare North this February
A Midsummer Night’s Dream is at Shakespeare North Playhouse this week, direct from the Globe in London. Shakespeare’s much-loved sprite-ly comedy is being staged at the Prescot venue’s Cockpit Theatre until tomorrow at the start of a national tour. The show, which explores the darker side of the Bard's seemingly mischievous tale, is a co-production between Shakespeare’s Globe and Headlong (with Bristol Old Vic and Leeds Playhouse). To escape a society ruled by tyrannical law,
Review: The Tempest at Shakespeare North Playhouse ****
Earlier this year Shakespeare North Playhouse delivered a gleefully irreverent stag and hen Love’s Labour’s Lost, and before that was a...
Review: Love's Labour's Lost (More or Less) at Shakespeare North Playhouse ****
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...
Calderstones Mansion announces 2025 open-air season shows
Five open-air touring productions will be staged in the Garden Theatre at Calderstones Mansion this summer. Travelling theatre troupes...
Review: The Merchant of Venice 1936 at Liverpool Playhouse ****
The Merchant of Venice has long been described as a ‘problem play’. Is it a comedy or a tragedy? And is Shakespeare condoning...
Shakespeare gets a makeover by 20 Stories High
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...
Liverpool date for The Merchant of Venice 1936
An acclaimed new version of The Merchant of Venice which relocates the story to 1930s London is heading for Liverpool next spring....
Much Ado for Off the Ground Theatre this summer
Off the Ground Theatre is taking Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing on an open-air tour this summer. The Wirral-based theatre company,...
Review: Twelfth Night at Shakespeare North Playhouse ****
Not Too Tame positions itself as ‘great night out specialists’ with high-octane storytelling at the heart of everything it does....
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