Tagged Much Ado About Nothing

Being a national treasure can be a double-edged sword. It carries a sense of predictability, of recycling character types. But for Emma Thompson, blasting into her 60s as a caustic chat show host in Late...

In the late 1970s, a young aspiring actor named Kenneth Branagh was about to star in a production of Chekhov's Three Sisters at the Royal Academy of Arts. Unsure of himself and desperate for guidance, he...

Shakespeare. It's the most famous name in the English language, ringing proudly out across the British Isles. From his first works on stage around the 1590s to Joss Whedon's Much Ado About Nothing in 2012,...