Press Releases
Shakespeare scholars celebrate the bards impact on Bollywood
Prominent director Vishal Bhardwaj has been announced as part of the line-up for Indian Shakespeares on Screen, a festival celebrating the influence of England’s most famous cultural icon on the world’s largest film industry.
BBC's Dimbleby Lecture on Shakespeare at WBS London
Warwick Business School will be hosting the BBC’s annual Richard Dimbleby Lecture at its London base at The Shard.
Gregory Doran, Artistic Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), who has been described as one of the “great Shakespearians of his generation”, will deliver the 2016 Richard Dimbleby Lecture at WBS London on Tuesday (March 15) before being screened on BBC One on Wednesday (March 16)
What do 1200 productions of Shakespeare reveal about diversity in classical theatre?
Dr Jami Rogers, Research Assistant and Honorary Fellow at the University of Warwick, presents the findings of an ongoing project that examines Shakespearean performance over the last 80 years.
English lecturer to tell the history of Black and Asian Shakespearean theatre at acclaimed photography exhibition
Warwick University’s Professor Tony Howard is discussing the history of Black and Asian Shakespearean theatre in Britain and introducing the exhibition ‘Tell my story’ which celebrates Black performers’ crucial but undervalued contribution to our understanding of Shakespeare - the greatest cultural symbol of ‘Britishness’.
Shakespeare on the Road: the Bard goes to the USA July–September 2014
On 4th July the Shakespeare on the Road team embarked on an epic road trip all around North America in a unique project to discover and document the untold story of the Bard in the USA in the 450th anniversary of his birth.