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The Latest Breaking News from Harold Pinter

Standard Theatre Podcast: Jared Harris and Joe Cole on The Homecoming, Harold Pinter and toxic masculinity

Plus our reviews of Ulster American and Cold War and the latest theatre news

Evening Standard

The week in theatre: Infinite Life; The Homecoming; Pacific Overtures – review

Chronic illness is captured to extraordinary effect in Annie Baker’s slow yet absorbing new play. Elsewhere, snarling Pinter lacks bite, while the songs eclipse all in rarely revived Sondheim

The Guardian - UK

The Homecoming review – Pinter’s timeless study of toxic masculinity

Playing a man meeting his daughter-in-law for the first time, Jared Harris brings out the dark comedy in Pinter’s snapshot of misogyny

The Guardian - UK

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The Homecoming at the Young Vic review: an impeccable production of an important, deeply unpleasant play

There is a direct line to draw from the world of this play to the online toxic masculinity of today

Evening Standard

King Crimson and Can were among their go-to inspirations – but in the new romantic era, Talk Talk couldn’t admit it

Steve Hogarth, Tim Bowness, Richard Barbieri and others speak up for the band’s prog credentials

Louder

How U.S. war crimes led us here

Israeli forces are emulating what the U.S. did in Mosul, Fallujah and elsewhere. But it's harder to hide

Salon

Joan Bakewell on love, fun and ambition at 90: ‘I’ve been pleased not to be married these last 20 years’

Still nowhere near ready to retire, the arts presenter talks about her six decades in TV, her affair with Harold Pinter and why David Attenborough was a terrific boss

The Guardian - UK

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Sir Michael Gambon obituary

Versatile actor with a magnificent presence who starred in The Singing Detective and the Harry Potter films

The Guardian - UK

Michael Gambon, star of Harry Potter and The Singing Detective, dies aged 82

The Olivier award-winning actor, whose major film roles included Albus Dumbledore in the Harry Potter series, has died

The Guardian - UK

William Friedkin’s best films to watch after The Exorcist

He was known for his 1973 genre-changing horror, but many of the director’s shocking and electrifying films also reached deep into the American psyche

Evening Standard

Michael Bakewell obituary

Radio and television producer who was head of plays at the BBC and steered productions of work by Harold Pinter, Alan Plater, Ibsen, Strindberg and Athol Fugard

The Guardian - UK

‘No Man’s Land’ as mystifying as ever in Steppenwolf staging

This is an abstract work, absurdist if you care to call it that, grounded in the realities of aging but equally informed by the instability of memories and dreams.

Chicago Sun-Times

Patrick Marber to direct Nachtland, a play about Hitler’s art and ‘rise of the new right’

Satire by German playwright Marius von Mayenburg will open next year at the Young Vic in London which will also revive Harold Pinter’s The Homecoming

The Guardian - UK

The week in theatre: Dr Semmelweis; Beneatha’s Place; A Strange Loop; Song from Far Away – review

Harold Pinter theatre; Young Vic; Barbican; Hampstead theatre, LondonMark Rylance mesmerises as the tormented Hungarian doctor; Kwame Kwei-Armah’s new satire is all too timely

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The Independent UK

Q&A: Steven Soderbergh goes 'Full Circle', talks DVDs, Danny Ocean and 'Out of Sight'

Steven Soderbergh's latest project is the series “Full Circle” for Max debuting Thursday

The Guardian - UK

The week in theatre: As You Like It; Tambo & Bones; Stumped – review

Seasoned actors turn Shakespeare’s romcom on its head in an enchanted RSC production; US race relations meet Waiting for Godot; and at the crease with Beckett and Pinter

The Independent UK

Michael Rosen ‘honoured’ by prize in memory of fellow injustice fighter Pinter

Past winners of the award have included Margaret Atwood, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Sir Salman Rushdie.

The Guardian - UK

Author Michael Rosen wins 2023 PEN Pinter prize for ‘fearless’ body of work

Writer of We’re Going on a Bear Hunt is a ‘passionate linguist, gifted humanist, national treasure and ambassador of gibberish’

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Bangkok Post

Julian Sands: 'A Room with a View' star who forged eclectic career

LONDON - Julian Sands, whose body was identified Tuesday after he disappeared in January while hiking in California, was a British actor who shot to fame as the romantic hero in 1980s period drama "A Room with a View".

The Guardian - UK

Julian Sands obituary

Actor whose blond hair and fine-boned looks saw him cast equally as dandy, devil or – in A Room With a View – heart-throb

The Independent UK

Stephen Tompkinson stars as playwright Samuel Beckett in first show since trial

The British actor was cleared of inflicting GBH earlier this month.

The Guardian - UK

Dennis Potter script discovered that casts new light on The Singing Detective

Unknown work The Last Television play found in writer’s archive features scenes that later appeared in BBC series

Daily Mirror

Dame Joan Bakewell discovers benefits of lunchtime nap after turning 90 amid cancer fight

Veteran broadcaster and journalist Dame Joan Bakewell, Baroness Bakewell, is currently 12 chemotherapy sessions into ongoing treatment following an operation to remove colon cancer

The Guardian - UK

‘We’ve had to stop people fighting and urinating in their seats’: the ugly new side of theatre audiences

On Good Friday, police were called to a performance of The Bodyguard – and there have been numerous other examples of audiences behaving badly. With crowds heckling, screaming, livestreaming and even copulating during shows, what can be done?

The Guardian - UK

Olivier awards 2023: full list of winners

My Neighbour Totoro, A Streetcar Named Desire and Prima Facie were among the winners at the Royal Albert Hall ceremony

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