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Here's why The School for Scandal (at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre) is on our must-watch list

The RSC is taking The School for Scandal to new heights with a lavish production at their Stratford theatre

Marie Claire

Gore blimey! The surprising source of a special effect in Titus Andronicus

Letter: Peter Gildener on the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 2003 production with David Bradley in the eponymous role

The Guardian - UK

Gregory Doran: ‘Shakespeare defines things when you can’t’

As the RSC’s artistic director steps down after 35 years and 50 shows, he talks about the productions he’s most proud of, his new memoir, and the loss of his husband, the actor Antony Sher

The Guardian - UK

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The RSC’s My Neighbor Totoro set to make triumphant return to the stage after sell out run

The play is currently in the running for nine Olivier Awards

Evening Standard

My Neighbour Totoro nominated for nine Olivier awards

Stage version of 1988 Japanese animation leads the pack while Standing at the Sky’s Edge has eight nominations

The Guardian - UK

Tracy-Ann Oberman looks back: ‘I’m thinking, What’s this? I want to be a princess!’

The actor and campaigner recreates an early moment dressed as a cowboy and recalls growing up with tough matriarchs

The Guardian - UK

Our weekend arts and culture picks, from The Tempest to the Brit Awards

The Independent’s team of critics and editors select the best cultural things to do over the weekend

The Independent UK

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The Bristol ceramicist working with some of the nation's best restaurants

She's gone from painting scenery for the Royal Shakespeare Company in China to having her own backyard pottery studio in Greenbank

Bristol Post

Royal Opera House ends sponsorship relationship with BP after 33 years

Major move comes after numerous arts insitutions, from The Royal Shakespeare Company to the National Portrait Gallery, have cut their ties with the oil company

The Independent UK

Sir Patrick Stewart reveals he wanted to turn down Star Trek role but kids encouraged him

After 36 years playing the iconic captain of the Enterprise, Sir Patrick Stewart is returning to Star Trek for the final time - and admits he knew nothing about Star Trek when he was offered the job

Daily Mirror

Chichester Festival theatre appoints Justin Audibert as new artistic director

Audibert, who runs the Unicorn children’s theatre in London, will replace Daniel Evans who is moving to the Royal Shakespeare Company

The Guardian - UK

Stephen Greif obituary

The Crown and Blake’s 7 actor who performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre

The Guardian - UK

Is the writing on the wall for the British Museum’s BP deal?

Chair of the museum, George Osborne, says it no longer wants to be a ‘destination for climate protest’

The Guardian - UK

Bridgerton’s Adjoa Andoh to explore societal prejudices by playing Richard III

Bridgerton actor, who will also direct the production, says she wants to talk about ‘body pathologising’

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‘It has added political resonance this year’: why Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol still strikes a chord

Audiences can choose from a glut of Ebenezers this festive season, with the infamous miser a more pointed character than ever in these hard times

The Guardian - UK

Timothy O’Brien obituary

Stage designer who worked for the Royal Shakespeare Company, at the National Theatre in London and opera houses in the UK and abroad

The Independent UK

The Week on Stage: From My Neighbour Totoro to Marvellous

A guide to the week’s theatre

The Guardian - UK

My Neighbour Totoro review – dazzling staging of the Studio Ghibli classic

The Royal Shakespeare Company’s production has astonishing puppetry, magical music and huge emotional impact

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The RSC’s work in schools and communities isn’t ‘subordinate’

Letters: This activity by the Royal Shakespeare Company is equal and integral to everything that happens on a main stage, writes David Longford

Evening Standard

Hilary Mantel wrote me kind notes that I felt deliriously teased by

I met Hilary Mantel in 2013 in Clapham. She was working with the Royal Shakespeare Company to turn Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies into plays.

The Independent UK

The Royal Shakespeare Company announces Daniel Evans and Tamara Harvey as new artistic directors

The pair will take on the responsibilities from June 2023 following the resignation of Gregory Doran

The Guardian - UK

Daniel Evans and Tamara Harvey are an inspired duo to lead the RSC

An immense task awaits the Royal Shakespeare Company’s new artistic directors who must attract top talent, prioritise verse-speaking and combine classic repertory and contemporary drama

The Independent UK

Royal Shakespeare Company announces new co-artistic directors for 2023

Erica Whyman is currently the acting artistic director following Gregory Doran stepping back from the role.

Evening Standard

Queen Elizabeth II: The London buildings and Tube stations opened during her 70-year reign

In her seven decades on the throne, the Queen opened over 100 buildings in the capital alone. Here are some of the highlights from each decade

The Independent UK

Charles’s Shakespearean tribute to the Queen

The King said his mother had been ‘a pattern to all princes living’.

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