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Joss Ackland: a beacon of power on British stage and screen

From a sportive Falstaff for the RSC to a powerful Juan Perón in Evita, Ackland – who has died aged 95 – rarely had the star role but was a reassuring presence

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‘It’s got to be evocative’ … why has a famous Glasgow bar been built at the RSC?

She cast an armchair as Mr Bennet in a Pride and Prejudice reboot. Now Isobel McArthur’s been let loose on lusty romp The Fair Maid of the West. So is she worried about outraging mothbally academics?

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The week in theatre: Backstairs Billy; The Box of Delights; Brenda’s Got a Baby – review

The puns ricochet between Penelope Wilton and Luke Evans in a frisky royal tale of mistress and servant; merriment dispels mystery at the RSC; and a pregnancy drama that delivers in parts

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The Box of Delights review – the RSC makes merry with Masefield’s fantasy

This is a well-crafted, brilliantly acted version of John Masefield’s classic novel about an orphan who travels through time

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‘You could beat someone to death with that!’ Great theatre wigs – and their miraculous creators

Few things in theatre are more transformative than a wig. But who makes them? Can they really be worth thousands? And what looks best on a beheaded tyrant? We meet the hairpiece heroes and their yeti-like creations

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Rupert Rhymes obituary

One of the leading postwar theatre managers and administrators who started out as a box-office clerk at the RSC

The Guardian - UK

It’s ahead of you! 25 festive UK shows to book for Christmas

An AI Pinocchio, Scrooge on the Cornish coast and a scouse Dick Whittington are just some of the season’s theatrical treats

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What an ass! Ghosts star takes on classic Shakespeare character

The latest production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream features Mathew Baynton in what the actor calls ‘an absolute treat of a role’

The Guardian - UK

Mike Johnson pushed big Medicare cuts

"It's right on his website"

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RSC to put on work by poet who wrote Stratford theatre’s first words

John Masefield wrote poem for 1932 opening of Shakespeare Memorial theatre, which is now staging The Box of Delights

The Guardian - UK

Scientists call on ministers to cut limits for ‘forever chemicals’ in UK tap water

Permitted levels of PFAS should be lowered tenfold and national chemicals agency created, says Royal Society of Chemistry

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‘Astronomical Telescope Making’ workshop held in Tirupati

RSC Tirupati held a one-day workshop on telescope making to mark APJ Abdul Kalam's birth anniversary. Students and teachers from private schools built 50mm and 70mm refractor telescopes from scrap and were trained to upgrade and maintain them.

The Hindu

White male actors ‘can’t find work’, claims former RSC boss Gregory Doran

Ex-artistic director of the Royal Shakespeare Company says he hopes the ‘pendulum will swing’ and casting in theatre will be more ‘balanced’

The Independent UK

Kevin Hern could be an unlikely choice for speaker

They called him “McCongressman.” Now Kevin Hern is chair of the Republican Study Committee — and possibly considering a run for speaker.

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Scalise bid for speaker role follows nine years in House Republican leadership - Roll Call

Scalise, first elected to Congress in 2008, has made his way up the path of Republican leadership with an interest in policy.

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Is King Lear a mountain or molehill? How to play the tragic monarch and ‘stupid old fart’

Paul Scofield, Ian McKellen and Glenda Jackson have all redefined Shakespeare’s unpredictable ruler – a role in which actors usually succeed

The Hindu

Hangzhou Asian Games | Boxer Preeti storms into women's 54kg quarterfinals

Preeti Pawar outpunched Jordan's Silina Alhasanat to advance to the women's 54kg qtrfinals at Asian Games in Hangzhou. Preeti dominated, winning by RSC.

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Macbeth review – a strenuously fresh reading with one-liners by Stewart Lee

Benefitting from a Scottish cast and a rewritten Porter’s speech by Lee, Wils Wilson’s production gets at the demonic drive of people desperate for power but hopeless in office

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The Edinburgh fringe is just another choking canary in the toxic national mine

But if I’m going to watch the Britain I loved expire slowly, I’d rather do it from the top of the Royal Mile in August

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Falkland Sound review – the RSC’s history play tells the islanders’ story

Brad Birch’s drama aims to explain how it felt to be the centre of the world’s attention in the war but being narrated at becomes tiring

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Sir Michael Boyd obituary

Acclaimed artistic director of the Royal Shakespeare Company who oversaw a transformation of its fortunes

The Guardian - UK

Sir Michael Boyd brought visionary gleam to Shakespeare and Stratford

The Royal Shakespeare Company’s former artistic director was a great theatrical leader whose legacy includes proving the history cycle is at the centre of our national story

The Guardian - UK

Sir Michael Boyd, former artistic director of the RSC, dies aged 68

The Royal Shakespeare Company says the acclaimed theatre director’s tenure from 2003 to 2012 was ‘inspiring and influential’

The Independent UK

Former RSC artistic director Sir Michael Boyd dies aged 68

Sir Michael was artistic director of the Royal Shakespeare Company between 2002 and 2012.

The Guardian - UK

Janet Dale obituary

Other lives: Actor whose long career spanned the RSC, popular TV soaps and series, and several films

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