King and Conqueror TV review — a royal mess that even Shakespeare didn’t tackle
James Norton and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau butt heads in BBC1’s ambitious and bloody Battle of Hastings series
James Norton and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau butt heads in BBC1’s ambitious and bloody Battle of Hastings series

Shakespeare’s history play is always a barometer of the times and this Stratford-upon-Avon production hits close to home

The actor plays a famed 18th-century warrior in this bloody, ambitious historical saga

The mathematician’s dazzling life is flattened in Royal & Derngate, Northampton’s revival of Hugh Whitemore’s play

The actors take on the political, creative and romantic tensions between the great Elizabethan dramatists in ‘Born with Teeth’

The King should lean in to this moment as a chance for reform — and a wise prime minister would be advising him to do so

Two British national treasures play an increasingly unhappy couple who descend into slapstick loathing