Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Luke Thallon’s Hamlet is all at sea in more ways than one. In Rupert Goold’s scintillating new staging ...

The Reduced Shakespeare Company built their reputation on going big. Since its founding in 1982, the company has tackled the complete works of William Shakespeare, the histories of America, comedy ...

Sarah Siddons plays Hamlet. With thanks to The British Library ... the brighter talent and the bigger draw at the box office. As a struggling actress she earned about £3 a week but at the ...

By Houman Barekat Reviewing from Stratford-upon-Avon, England In the Royal Shakespeare Company’s new “Hamlet,” the Danish royal court is all at sea — quite literally. The set is a ship’s ...