Though not the most lovable, Ralph Fiennes is certainly a great actor, with a seemingly impassive lizardlike gaze and the suggestion of some inner cruelty. These stern qualities are offset by ...

The title character in “Coriolanus” is one of those Shakespearean heroes you love to hate — or maybe you’re just hating yourself for having warm feelings toward this rather unheroic hero. For one ...

It’s a bit of a risk to put a lesser-known Shakespeare play with a vaguely comical name in the National Theatre’s massive Olivier space. But you wouldn’t know it from the monumental confidence of ...

Taking a Shakespeare play out of its original period and context is dangerous business. Get it right — figure out what’s modern and fresh about the centuries-old text — and you wind up with something ...

Bare-Knuckle Politics: The battle-hardened Roman general Coriolanus (Ralph Fiennes) runs for office at the urging of his mother (Vanessa Redgrave) — but it turns out he's no booster of majority rule.

Stage productions broadcast live in cinemas have been a fixture in the UK since 2009, when the National Theatre's Phèdre was seen by more than 50,000 people. Numbers now tend to be far higher (the ...