Actors question Bard's authorship
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Sir Derek Jacobi and Mark Rylance launch a debate asking who really wrote William Shakespeare's works.
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A second Birmingham theatre company could stage a controversial play that was dropped following protests by members of the Sikh community. Send us your reaction.
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"Interred With Their Bones" (Dutton, 405 pages, $25.95), by Jennifer Lee Carrell: With an obvious nod to "The Da Vinci Code," Jennifer Lee Carrell has written a two-tiered academic action yarn in which the murder mystery rests on a literary question: Who was William Shakespeare?
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Playing a living, universally known figure has to be one of the biggest challenges an actor can face.
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Actor Stephen Fry questions whether straight actors are truly "brave" for playing gay characters.
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The author of a play that triggered violent protests by Sikhs in Birmingham has gone into hiding amid threats against her life, friends were quoted as saying.
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The Royal Shakespeare Company says "boring" lessons put youngsters off the Bard's work.
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Tycho:  It wasn't until the strip was completed that I realized we had written two comic strips at the same time.  Gabriel thought this comic was literal, and I thought it was about miscommunication. At least, I hoped it was. This is a fantasy to which I still cling.
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The Darjeeling Limited star is still to get a lead but she is certainly going places, having been cast in plays by Royal Shakespeare Company. She is in The Taming of the Shrew as well as The Merchant Of Venice.
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The earliest editions of Shakespeare&#39;s plays provide a fascinating insight into how the playwright reworked his masterpieces over time, but until now, due to their age and
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A new performance of 'Dividing the Estate' finds the legendary playwright very much engaged in present-day issues.
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A British theatre that's staging a play that has the country's large Sikh community up in arms denied that it was "insensitive," as police sought to avert a repeat of a mini-riot that broke out during the show two days ago.
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Playbill - Due to the addition of a new cast member, the Public Theater has delayed the first performance of The Controversy of Valladolid, an English-language translation of a play by Jean-Claude Carriere.
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LONDON: There's an old joke about William Shakespeare being an Arab - how else, it explains, can you account for the name, Sheikh Zubair.
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It has happened so many times before. Avant-garde directors who start off with committed actors suddenly start bothering about commercial considerations and change loyalties.
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The director of a revamped "The Lord of the Rings" musical went to J.R.R. Tolkien's grave to seek the author's posthumous blessing for staging the cult classic -- and he apologised in case the writer disapproved.
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Like actors in an amateur stage play, the large, mostly all-star â or has-been star â cast of âIn the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Taleâ look, rather dazedly, to be playing dress-up.