The ashes of Sir Henry Irving, eminent actor, lie in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey (the first burial of ashes in the Abbey, although they were within a full size coffin not a small casket). John ...

A rare letter jointly signed by Victorian actor Sir Henry Irving and Dracula author Bram Stoker has sold for £400 at John ...

Dr Nick Walton from the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust talks about the history of Hamlet in performance on the RSC stage. Acting styles and approaches to presenting Hamlet on stage have changed ...

Transcending the confines of the stage, the film utilises nearly every room of the Theatre Royal Windsor to transform it into the immortal Elsinore Castle, from basement dungeon to roof-top battlement ...