The Jamie Lloyd Company presents The Tempest, the first production in a season of Shakespeare in London’s iconic Theatre Royal Drury Lane. “We are such stuff as dreams are made on.” ...

Watch Shakespeare's play The Tempest told in 8 video clips. A ship returning from Africa is caught in a ferocious storm. On a nearby island Prospero, once Duke of Milan, has plans for those on ...

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So it’s not overly surprising that the star of “Alien” and “Avatar” might choose to come to the West End in “The Tempest,” Shakespeare’s otherworldly play. Less anticipated is the ...

And what could be more a more fitting challenge for her than a sci-fi version of Shakespeare’s late play, The Tempest? The versatile American actress is known for many hugely different films ...

She sits alone at the front of the stage gazing out into the vast auditorium as the tempest she has conjured rages around her. Sigourney Weaver’s Prospero is a calm, focused presence in the eye ...

His new production of The Tempest starring Sigourney Weaver as a female Prospero, feels almost wilfully misconceived and under-achieved. A play that cries out for rethinking has been slammed ...

“It looks dramatic, in what has become Lloyd’s signature style of greys and blacks. Soutra Gilmour has decided to present the enchanted island where Prospero spends her time in exile after being ...

That Weaver’s Tempest is now taking place in a gap between the Disney blockbusters Frozen and Hercules should make it all the more special. But instead of lightning in a bottle, it’s a damp squib.

In 1957, the great John Gielgud starred as Prospero in The Tempest at Theatre Royal Drury Lane, and proclaimed that the historic venue would thereafter be “lost to musicals”. 67 years later ...

Forbes Masson as Caliban in The Tempest Credit: Marc Brenner The opening storm scene involves much captivating billowing of gigantic dark sheets as we hear the mariners bewail their shipwreck.