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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

Ghostlight review – charming tale of DIY Shakespeare theater

Triangle of Sadness star Dolly De Leon steals scenes in an endearing story of a real family wrapped up in a lo-fi staging of Romeo and Juliet

The Guardian - US

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

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‘It was a real trauma’: the TS Eliot poetry prize winner on his turbulent upbringing

He grew up in Jamaica, thinking his grandmother was his mother, learning how to read from a blackboard on her veranda. What does Jason Allen-Paisant plan to do now? Fly to Ethiopia to meet his father for the first time

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

‘Things were being thrown at us!’ Is booing at the theatre actually a good thing?

It is one of the most electrifying and unsettling sounds in theatre. Should we be encouraging crowds to do it more? Experts tell us about booing’s origins – and actors remember being on the receiving end of audience outrage

The Guardian - UK

Stuart Walker obituary

Other lives: Film and TV production designer whose work included The Camomile Lawn and Portrait of a Marriage

The Guardian - UK

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Alexa is getting new generative AI skills — here’s everything you can do now

You can make the perfect beat or chat with William Shakespeare using new Alexa AI skills.

Tom’s Guide

The best theatre to see in London in 2024: from Sarah Jessica Parker in Plaza Suite to The Devil Wears Prada

There's a feast of theatrical delights heading this way over the next 12 months

Evening Standard

Andrew Scott halted Hamlet soliloquy after theatregoer used laptop to email

The actor, who was starring in the Shakespeare play in 2017, stopped during its renowned soliloquy

The Guardian - UK

Why Taylor Swift belongs on English literature degree courses

When I started my podcast, Studies in Taylor Swift, in the spring of 2021, I felt that I was simultaneously helping to invent, and trying to catch up to, the academic discipline of Taylor Swift studies. Though there wasn’t much published on reading Swift as literature, I had no trouble…

The Conversation

The best theatre to stream this month: Kings of War, David Tennant’s Hamlet and more

If you can’t get tickets to his Macbeth, Tennant’s acclaimed prince of Denmark is online, along with a spectacular take on three Shakespeare plays by Ivo van Hove

The Guardian - UK

Deluge of information

Navigate the infodemic with reliable sources: learn to dodge WhatsApp forwards, YouTube reels and Instagram posts to stay informed.

The Hindu

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

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Evening Standard

Best detective book series to get lost in gripping mysteries

Ravenous mysteries and mind-boggling motives

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60 ‘Useless Yet Interesting Calculations’ To Get Your Mind Reeling (New Posts)

Whoever said math is useless in the real world can crawl under a rock because this Reddit community did all the calculations. All the unnecessary, yet interesting ones, though, but it still counts. The post 60 ‘Useless Yet Interesting Calculations’ To Get Your Mind Reeling (New Posts) first appeared on…

The Guardian - UK

The week in theatre: The Little Matchgirl and Happier Tales; Cold War; Pandemonium – review

There’s a puppet but no happy ending at Emma Rice’s fine new Somerset venue; Elvis Costello soundtracks a postwar Polish love story; and Armando Iannucci bravely tries to satirise the Tory party

Evening Standard

Macbeth at the Donmar Warehouse review: David Tennant is magnificent, so why sex it up with headphones?

Tennant and Cush Jumbo star as Shakespeare's murderous couple, but their work is overwhelmed by some ill-advised aural shenanigans

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Newcastle Herald

Shakespeare's Dream brought to life in Pacific Park, Newcastle

The production concludes with a final performance on Sunday, December 17, at 7pm.

The Guardian - UK

Macbeth review – David Tennant thrills in this high-concept production

The staging is imaginative and expressive, and the audience is immersed in the action by hearing everything through headphones

The Guardian - UK

Let Me Go On by Paul Griffiths review – an exquisite experiment

Ophelia journeys beyond the grave, in a clever and affecting sequel using just the 481 words spoken by Shakespeare’s character

The Independent UK

Ralph Fiennes reveals he gets stage fright... when he’s off stage

The veteran Shakespeare performer was left struggling to remember his lines during a daylight monologue outside his beloved theatre ‘cocoon’

Marie Claire

Camila Cabello and Drake Are Spending Quality Time Together in Turks and Caicos

Drake followed Cabello on Instagram back in April.

The Guardian - UK

Ian McKellen reprises Hamlet for new film version

Actor plays Shakespeare’s tragic prince in film shot at Theatre Royal Windsor, where he starred in a 2021 stage version

The Guardian - UK

‘Blessed with incredible gravitas’: how Brooklyn Nine-Nine’s Andre Braugher was a talent like no other

From award-winning Shakespearean roles to changing the face of TV in gritty dramas, the actor was astonishing at everything he tried. Not least, his laser-focused deadpan turn as Raymond Holt

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