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“I see people my own age in the audience, and their minds are blown. I’m making this stuff sound new to them”: Grace Bowers on her dizzying rise as the world’s next guitar hero, breaking the law to hone her chops, and why she’s “not a natural”

The 18-year-old might be the greatest thing to come out of Nashville since Martin's Bar-B-Que Joint but she's keeping her feet on the ground, hands on her SG, as everyone else stands in awe of her prodigious talent

Guitar World

Too much theatre memorabilia is being lost to private collectors, says David Hare

As hundreds of personal effects belonging to playwright John Osborne go up for sale, Hare laments that the V&A is not bidding

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on Look Back in Anger: still shocking

Editorial: Toxic masculinity is centre stage in a timely revival of John Osborne’s 1956 classic

The Guardian - UK

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The week in theatre: Giant; Roots; Look Back in Anger – review

John Lithgow as Roald Dahl towers over Nicholas Hytner’s production of an extraordinary debut play; Morfydd Clark finds her voice in a Wesker revival; and a John Osborne staging is a step backward

The Guardian - UK

John Osborne and Arnold Wesker captured the 50s but remain playwrights for the ages

I was 16 when I became obsessed with Look Back in Anger. Now, in a double bill with Roots at the Almeida, both dramas’ eternal truths are clear

The Guardian - UK

Look Back in Anger/Roots review – double bill of 1950s gamechanging kitchen sink dramas

Watching John Osborne’s fulminating Jimmy Porter feels curiously cold, while the same cast bring subtleties to Arnold Wesker’s classic

The Guardian - UK

Roots/Look Back in Anger at the Almeida review: the ferocious roar of angry young men and women resonate down the decades

It is a particularly ripe moment to bring back two plays about the anger of younger generations with two plays that couldn’t be more different

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“If you’re a country music fan, who doesn’t put these guys on their Mount Rushmore to record with?”: Vince Gill, John Osborne and Brent Mason tapped for a new single – and it's an all-star tribute to the Telecaster

Tele-Man brings together some of country music’s finest guitarists for a tribute to the genre's finest electric guitar

Guitar World

Actor Robert Lindsay on his role in Sherwood and growing up in a mining town: ‘There were terrible confrontations between fathers and sons’

The star of Citizen Smith, GBH and much more on the ‘genius’ of James Graham’s BBC drama, his unlikely way into acting, and learning to simmer down on social media

The Guardian - UK

'Error in judgment' moments before elite pilot's death

A coroner says the death of an experienced rescue pilot in a training exercise crash at Hobart Airport occurred after an error in judgment.

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Lynne Reid Banks obituary

Bestselling author of the 1960 novel The L-Shaped Room and the children’s classic The Indian in the Cupboard

The Guardian - UK

Israel does not act for all Jews

A conversation about the effect of Israel’s actions in Gaza is vital

The Guardian - UK

“I’ve been playing for seven years but I only learned the pentatonic scale three years ago!”: She’s only just started exploring music theory, but that hasn’t stopped 17-year-old Grace Bowers from grabbing her blues heroes’ attention

Though she already has a Gibson endorsement, an impressive social media presence and a favorite guitar and effects setup, the Hodge Podge leader is practicing harder than ever

Guitar World

At the top of elite senior amateur rankings, John and Greg Osborne remain brothers first

John Osborne and his brother Greg top their respective age categories to start the year.

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The Guardian - UK

Don’t Destroy Me review – war is not over for fractured Jewish family

Timely revival of Michael Hastings’ unsettling 1956 play that examines the legacy of war on immigrants in postwar London

Louder

"We're progressive people who grew up in a very conservative town. We're used to bridging the divide": Brothers Osborne's new album is a celebration of freedom and inclusiveness

Having weathered a few years of personal disclosures that might have derailed their career, Brothers Osborne are happily balancing who they’ve become with who they've always been

The Guardian - UK

Royal Court theatre launches digital archive of every play performed there

London venue’s online collection of performances dating back to 1956 will be free to use for writers, directors and the public

The Guardian - UK

A yomp across the Shropshire Way to a great pub: the White Horse Inn

A two-day adventure by rail offers iron age hill forts, Offa’s Dyke and a local straight out of The Archers

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Helicopter crash inquest into instructor Roger Corbin's death hears trainee pilot 'woke up trapped' in wreckage

The trainee pilot who survived a helicopter crash that killed a veteran Tasmanian pilot tells an inquest that he has no memory of the moment of impact and "woke up trapped in the aircraft".

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Helicopter pilot 'always about safety', inquest told

An inquest has begun into the death of an experienced flying instructor in a helicopter crash during a training exercise at Hobart Airport.

The Guardian - UK

Irving Wardle obituary

Distinguished critic who chronicled the development of British theatre through a postwar golden age

The Guardian - US

‘Ruthless ambition and ego’: what it’s like being married to an author

In a meticulously researched new book, the lives of five literary wives are examined and the often abusive relationships they found themselves in

Los Angeles Times

By bucking norms, Ashley McBryde became one of country's most respected, and unlikeliest, stars

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — If things ever go sideways in her career as a country singer, Ashley McBryde has a solid backup plan in place: a reality series starring her and Martina McBride, the veteran country star so frequently mistaken as a relative that McBryde owns a website — isashleymcbryderelatedtomartinamcbride.com —…

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Playwright David Eldridge: ‘What’s important to me is to move people’

The dramatist and West Ham fan on exploring what it means to be a couple in his trilogy of plays and how King Lear blew his mind

The Independent UK

Brothers Osborne react to ‘incredible’ first Grammy win for LGBTQ+ anthem

Brothers Osborne have won the Grammy for Best Country Duo/Group Performance for their song “Younger Me”, making history as the first song about coming out as LGBTQ+ to win the prize.

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