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Bard jokes: how music-hall greats inspired Stewart Lee to meddle with Macbeth

The stand-up comedian describes how he gave a modern twist to the Porter’s dark jokes in a new RSC production directed by Wils Wilson

The Guardian - UK

As You Like It: a ‘good-natured comedic romp’

For his RSC debut, Omar Elerian has presented “As You Like It” conventionally, as a “good-natured comedic romp packed with laughter”, said Diane Parkes on What’s on Stage. There is a twist, however: all of the main parts are played by actors in their 60s, 70s and 80s – which guarantees exemplary verse-speaking.

The Week

Douglas Heap obituary

Other lives: Theatrical designer who created sets for theatres in the West End and on Broadway

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RSC to launch ‘Chalo Delhi’ over ‘injustice being meted out to Rayalaseema’

Rayalaseema Steering Committee (RSC) convener Byreddy Rajasekhar Reddy said that though the State was helmed by many Chief Ministers from the Rayalaseema region since independence, none helped the region develop, and the indiscrimination towards it is more evident under the rule of Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy.

The Hindu

TV tonight: Wimbledon coverage looks a little bit different this year

Clare Balding takes over from Sue Barker at the tennis tournament. Plus: the RSC present All’s Well That Ends Well. Here’s what to watch this evening

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 Guardian - UK

Thornhill scientist honoured with a top prize

Dr Stephen Wallace, who now lives in Edinburgh, has been named winner of the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Norman Heatley Award in recognition of brilliance in research and innovation.

Daily Record

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Matthew Yglesias: It’s not Trump’s party so much as Jason Smith’s

If you want to know how Donald Trump would govern if he wins in 2024 — or Ron DeSantis or for that matter Will Hurd — tune out the din of the Republican presidential campaign and cast your gaze toward the House of Representatives. What you will see is that…

Tribune News Service

The RSC’s Julius Caesar at The Lowry is an office party with terrible consequences... remind you of anything?

Atri Banerjee's production arrives at The Lowry

Manchester Evening News

GOP budget would destroy Social Security

The proposed budget calls for tax cuts for the uber-rich and an increase in the Social Security retirement age

Salon

Oscar-winning UK actress turned MP Glenda Jackson dies at 87: agent

LONDON - British actress Glenda Jackson, the two-time Oscar-winning actress who went on to become an MP, died on Thursday at the age of 87, prompting tributes from the worlds of entertainment and politics.

Bangkok Post

Glenda Jackson obituary

Actor who was a fearless, ferocious presence in theatre, cinema and television, then turned to politics as a Labour MP

The Guardian - UK

Black Mirror’s Paapa Essiedu: “Pressure? It doesn’t affect me”

He’s played a hate-filled Hamlet and a traumatised Grindr addict to great acclaim, but the pride of Walthamstow, Paapa Essiedu, tells Jimi Famurewa why Black Mirror is his best job yet

Evening Standard

Conservatives’ budget plan renews battle over seniors’ benefits

WASHINGTON — The largest bloc of House conservatives offered up a fiscal blueprint Wednesday that promises to balance the federal budget in seven years, make GOP tax cuts permanent and slash domestic spending.

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Roll Call

Conservatives' budget plan renews battle over seniors' benefits - Roll Call

The plan would gradually raise the age at which future retirees can start claiming full Social Security benefits from 67 to 69.

The Guardian - UK

Hamilton star Reuben Joseph to play Macbeth for the RSC

The West End actor says the Shakespearean role has ‘the disastrous consequences of ambition’ in common with Lin-Manuel Miranda’s musical

The Independent UK

Interim RSC boss proud to have made company inclusive of ‘voices we represent’

Erica Whyman said she cared ‘very passionately’ about having promoted the RSC as a truly national theatre company.

Evening Standard

Cush Jumbo joins David Tennant in the Donmar Warehouse’s Macbeth in autumn 2023

Tennant and Jumbo previously acted together in Channel 4’s Deadwater Fell

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Cymbeline review – Shakespeare’s knotty romance is a fabulous farewell for Doran

Departing artistic director Greg Doran reinvigorates this tale of a royal family in crisis with clarity and intelligence

WhatToWatch

The Coronation Concert: release date, hosts, acts and everything we know

The Coronation Concert, held on Sunday May 7, promises to be an event fit for a King.

Al Jazeera

Ten years of Rana Plaza: How safe is Bangladesh garment industry?

The nine-storey building collapsed in 2013, killing 1,134 people, in one of the deadliest industrial disasters ever.

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 Week

Hamnet review: ‘beautifully acted’ but doesn’t ‘pierce the heart’

The RSC has reopened its refurbished Swan Theatre with an eagerly anticipated adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s bestselling novel Hamnet, said Sam Marlowe in The Stage. As “snug and supple” a fit for the Stratford stage as one of the bespoke gloves made by William Shakespeare’s bullying father, it imagines the…

The Guardian - UK

The week in theatre: Hamnet; You Bury Me; Pussycat in Memory of Darkness – review

Shakespeare’s wife moves centre stage in Lolita Chakrabarti’s pivotal adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s Hamnet, while urgent productions from two small London theatres tackle recent history head on

Roll Call

GOP debt limit plans begin to take shape in House - Roll Call

House Republicans are fleshing out the details of a bill that would lift the debt limit through May 2024 in exchange for spending curbs.

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