Nicholai La Barrie’s Romeo and Juliet, though unpolished, clearly claimed the heart of Manchester’s audience

Matthew Bourne’s Romeo + Juliet is a radical, refreshing and roaring retelling of the most iconic love story of all time. Bourne ditches his usual splendour and creates a production that is minimal and clinical – but just as phenomenal.

The RSC’s innovative adaptation of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar falls short of greatness

HER Productions’ gender-swapped adaptation of King Lear is brilliantly subversive and phenomenally acted – but it could be better structured

The Merchant of Venice 1936 is a powerful, poignant, and radical reimagining of Shakespeare’s most problematic play, with Tracy-Ann Oberman successfully reclaiming Shylock

The Merchant of Venice 1936, a reimagining of Shakespeare’s most controversial (antisemitic) play, comes to HOME – starring Jewish actress Tracy-Ann Oberman as a sympathetic, female Shylock

Noughts & Crosses, the stage adaptation of Malorie Blackman’s novel of the same name, is visiting The Lowry as part of its second UK tour

Harriet Cummings reviews As You Like It at the Lowry

An all-Northern adaptation of Shakespeare’s As You Like It is playing at the Lowry next week

Joel Coen’s The Tragedy of Macbeth is an aesthetic dream that artfully shakes up the Shakespeare cliches of the last decade and offers something truly unique.

Does Hamnet, the prize-winning novel by Maggie O’Farrell, deserve all the praise?

The Royal Shakespeare Company is launching an interactive, online play using the latest in gaming technology, based on Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Immerse yourself in a cosy, acoustic show from the comfort of your own sofa with James Bay live at The Globe Theatre

Rosemary Russett reviews Queer Lady M at Waterside Plaza

Jasmine Bennett debates whether new Shakespearean epic The King is deserving of majesty

Theatre Editor Jay Darcy reviews & Juliet, a jukebox musical reimagining Romeo & Juliet, ahead of its West End transfer

Sam Bronheim reviews the Royal Shakeaspeare Company’s adaptation of As You Like It

Kayleigh Crawford reviews the Royal Exchange Theatre’s adaptation of Macbeth, a new production that evaluates gender

Anuli Changa reviews Wise Children on its touring visit to HOME, an adaptation of the Angela Carter novel by Emma Rice

Anuli Changa reviews one of Shakespeare’s most famous plays, Twelfth Night, performed by the University of Manchester Shakespeare Society