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Aye, regional accents are also worth saving

Brief letters: Protecting dialects | Titus Andronicus confusion | Gruesome sound effects | Pensioner stereotypes | Soap storylines

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House Republican Proposes Raising Retirement Age For Social Security Benefits

House Republican Kevin Hern proposes raising Social Security retirement age to address insolvency by 2033, facing bipartisan caution.

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Actor Luke Thompson: ‘It turned out the coughing was someone vomiting in the dress circle – over other people’

The Bridgerton star on making his RSC debut, extreme audience reactions to A Little Life, and why people love romance

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‘Don’t come if you are worried’: former RSC boss says he hates trigger warnings for plays

Gregory Doran asks how content warnings could be issued for Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus

The Guardian - UK

Trevor Griffiths obituary

Politically committed dramatist and screenwriter admired for his radical stage and television work created over the last 50 years

The Guardian - UK

‘We’re barely hanging on’: England’s cultural jewels fall into the red

New arts lobby group says plight that hits even top bodies such as Royal Shakespeare Company makes entire country poorer

The Guardian - UK

Uttarakhand and Delhi boxers dominate in sub-junior National

Uttarakhand and Delhi boxers dominate sub-junior National championships, with multiple RSC wins in pre-quarterfinals.

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A GOP Plan To Raise the Retirement Age Reveals How Unserious Washington Is About Social Security

An obvious, tepid reform was greeted with shrill partisan screeching.

Reason

At the Races: Fiscal fun - Roll Call

The CQ Roll Call newsroom tracks campaigns nationwide, sharing the best stories with some extras, in the At the Races newsletter.

Roll Call

Edward Bond, blazingly original British playwright, dies aged 89

Death announced of writer whose searing and controversial plays included Saved and Early Morning

The Guardian - UK

‘Without craft, an actor is a liability’: how row over teaching standards is causing a rift in UK theatre industry

Royal Shakespeare Company steps into dispute at Guildhall drama school after senior teacher quits in protest over methods

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Michael Jayston obituary

Veteran stage and screen actor hailed for his roles in the 1971 film Nicholas and Alexandra and BBC TV’s Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

The Guardian - UK

Acting, disability and the problem with ‘lived experience’

Letters: Guardian readers respond to the row about a non-disabled actor playing Richard III at Shakespeare’s Globe

The Guardian - UK

Gregory Doran to finally direct 36th play from Shakespeare’s First Folio – for student production

The former RSC director, now visiting professor of contemporary theatre at Oxford University, will stage The Two Gentlemen of Verona

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‘I’m done with pretenders’: disabled actors on reclaiming Richard III

As the Globe faces accusations of ‘cripping up’ with a new production of Shakespeare’s tragedy, disabled theatre-makers explain why the role should not be open to all

Evening Standard

Going going gone! From Frozen to Backstairs Billy, the shows now closing in the West End

Frozen shocked theatreland this month by announcing its September 2024 closure. These are the other shows not to miss before it's too late

Evening Standard

Music and interview with Hadestown's Anaïs Mitchell... The Standard Theatre Podcast

Plus, our reviews of Cowbois and The Good John Proctor

The Guardian - UK

The week in theatre: Kim’s Convenience; Kin – review

Ins Choi’s disarming Korean corner store comedy makes a timely return to the stage; a show of migrant stories feels more like ritual than chronicle; and a new era dawns at the RSC

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The Guardian - UK

A Shakespeare play slashed to 80 minutes? Bring it on – theatre can be far too stressful

The play’s the thing. But what’s so wrong with the RSC’s plan to also let people have dinner, or catch the last train home? asks Arifa Akbar

The Guardian - UK

The many faces of Falstaff: Shakespeare’s tragicomic knight is as complex as Hamlet

Ian McKellen follows in the footsteps of David Warner and Antony Sher as he takes on a character who has been played as wittily jovial and cruelly cunning

The Guardian - UK

RSC offers 25,000 tickets at £25 to ‘throw open doors’ to diverse crowds

Royal Shakespeare Company’s new artistic directors team up with artists from around the world to appeal to wider audience

The Guardian - UK

Theatre: Susannah Clapp’s 10 best shows of 2023

In a thin year for musicals and political drama, an 11th hour Blanche DuBois, a flurry of young actors, two James Graham plays and a pair of Macbeths were among the standouts

The Guardian - UK

Michael Blakemore obituary

Acclaimed theatre director admired for his productions of Kiss Me Kate and Copenhagen

The Hindu

Mumbai professor bags Royal Society of Chemistry’s Nyholm prize

Prof. Ladage of Mumbai's Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, won the Royal Society of Chemistry's Nyholm Prize for Education for her advocacy of chemical education.

The Guardian - UK

The Fair Maid of the West review – songs, silliness and a musical ham

Isobel McArthur gives a giddy fresh spin to Thomas Heywood’s 16th-century romp which sends a Cornish landlady, in her repurposed bar, to sea

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