Here’s your chance to see Ninth Doctor actor, Christopher Eccleston, in William Shakespeare’s tragedy, Macbeth, originally recorded at the Barbican Theatre in 2018.

This was Christopher Eccleston’s Royal Shakespeare Company debut and the return of Niamh Cusack (as Lady Macbeth) to the Company. This production of Macbeth was directed by Polly Findlay and designed by Fly Davis.

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Dracula, the three-part drama from Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss, is available to watch on BBC iPlayer once more. The TV series, which loosely followed the successful format of Sherlock (i.e. three 90 minute episodes), originally screened at the start of the year, but you can relive the humourous horror in all its glory on the BBC streaming service.

This joins a number of boxsets added back to…

Members of the new Time Team in Doctor Who Magazine have recently delivered themselves of some rather startling opinions. The Deadly Assassin has been condemned as sexist. The Talons of Weng-Chiang is also suspect because it is racist.

Developing the ‘argument’, the condemnation of Weng-Chiang continues by saying that it is unacceptable that a Caucasian actor should play a Chinese character: this…

The problem with reviews of productions of classic plays is that so many reviewers are determined to show how brilliant they are: far more brilliant than the plebs in the audience, far more talented than the director, and far more qualified to mount a better production of the piece than the one they’re actually reviewing. They’re the sort of people who bellow loudly with laughter at horribly…

The DWC are sad to report the passing of Trevor Martin, the first actor to play the Doctor on stage, who died aged 87. Martin first appeared in Doctor Who in 1969, playing a Time Lord in the final Second Doctor serial The War Games. However, he was best known for playing the Doctor on stage at the Adelphi Theatre, London in Doctor Who and the Daleks in the Seven Keys to Doomsday. In the 1974…