Front Row Interviews | Ralph Fiennes

Front Row | A Midsummer Night's Dream

Screenwriter Frank Cottrell-Boyce and critic Helen Nugent review the first Shakespeare production at the new Shakespeare North theatre ...

Front Row | Front Row reviews 1623, to mark the anniversary of Shakespeare's First Folio

1623 Review Show, presented by Tom Sutcliffe. Front Row's panel of guests make a cha...

Front Row | Gregory Doran and the RSC

When Gregory Doran was appointed Artistic Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company in 2012, his stated ambition was for the company to...

Front Row | James Shapiro on Shakespeare

James Shapiro will be discussing 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare, his portrait of the most impactful year of Shakesp...

Front Row | Much Ado About Nothing

Front Row brings three directors - Simon Godwin (National), Lucy Bailey (Globe) and Robert Hastie (Crucible) - together to discuss the fas...

Front Row | Ola Ince on Romeo & Juliet

British director Ola Ince discusses her new stage production of Romeo & Juliet, currently on at Shakespeare’s Globe in London. Ince ha...

Front Row | Shakespeare's problem plays

It's a truism that Shakespeare is as relevant today as ever. But some of his plays are regarded as problematic and recently the celeb...

Front Row | The 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's First Folio

Director Greg Doran and Shakespeare experts Emma Smith, Farah Karim-Cooper and Chris Laoutaris mark the 400th ...

Front Row | The making of the new RSC production of Cymbeline

In this special edition, Front Row follows the making of the Royal Shakespeare Company's new production of Cymb...

Front Row Interviews | Ralph Fiennes

Mark Lawson in conversation with actor Ralph Fiennes on playing Shakespeare, gauging audiences and directing himself on film.

Front Row Interviews | Sir Peter Hall

The theatre director and founder of the Royal Shakespeare Company discusses his career in conversation with Mark Lawson.