The author of a Spanish literary masterpiece

A stellar Othello in which the narrative takes centre stage puts the spotlight on the theme of the outsider, which threads through many of this month’s productions

THE NEW FILM HAMNET, BASED ON MAGGIE O’FARRELL’S award-winning 2020 novel, imagines how William Shakespeare wrote Hamlet in a haze of grief over the death of his son. In a sly bit of casting, director

Theatre: All My Sons Wyndham’s Theatre, London WC2 ...

Screwball escapades on the Lower East Side; bittersweet glory on Broadway; trauma in Tehran; and more…

From ancient court to campaign HQ: Robert Icke’s Sophocles