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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

The Guardian - UK

Iftar at Shakespeare’s Globe is a reminder of England’s forgotten relationship with Islam

After Elizabeth I was excommunicated she began to build links with the Islamic world, which is reflected in some of Shakespeare’s plays

Evening Standard

Colman Domingo wants theater like 'Fat Ham' to happen more

Colman Domingo believes in paying it forward, literally, so he joined the producer team of the Broadway play, “Fat Ham.”

The Independent UK

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Fat Ham review – Pulitzer-winning Hamlet revision hits Broadway

James Ijames’s electrifying take on Shakespeare’s classic, with a Black queer man at its centre, makes for a smart update

The Guardian - US

‘Explicitly queer and trans’: the 1580s play that inspired Shakespeare’s cross-dressing love plots

John Lyly’s long-forgotten Galatea – featuring gods, mortals and a highly elastic approach to gender and sex – is being revived at the Brighton festival. We meet the team behind it

The Guardian - UK

Richard III in Liverpool is perfect even if you don't like Shakespeare

Bridgerton's Adjoa Andoh directs and takes the lead role in the production

Liverpool Echo

The ChatGPT homework dam has burst, let's teach students to build a raft

Instead of encouraging cheating, AI writing tools could be used to achieve a higher level of learning in classrooms.

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How Giancarlo Stanton's Swing Makes Him the Weirdest Hitter in Baseball

Yankees hitting coach Dillon Lawson helps break down the former MVP’s inconsistent, yet hard-hitting, batting style.

Sports Illustrated

Netflix's Adjoa Andoh explains why blockbuster new show had to come to Liverpool first

The Bridgerton star told the ECHO why the Shakespeare adaptation is a love letter to her Scouse mum

Liverpool Echo

Editorial: Surprise (not)! Trump responds to felony charges with rage and bluster

While we are reluctant to compare Donald Trump to the fictional characters of Shakespeare given the Bard’s skill, subtlety and wit, the ex-president’s rambling Tuesday night seethe-a-thon from the Donald J. Trump Grand Ballroom at Mar-a-Lago had all the elements of King Lear’s Act III rage on the hearth. If…

Tribune News Service

Can kids see ‘Mrs. Doubtfire’? How DeSantis’ anti-drag war is affecting the performing arts

MIAMI — Before there was “RuPaul’s Drag Race” and drag brunch in Wynwood, there was Shakespeare.

Miami Herald

Commentary: Our shameful national fatalism on guns

“Murder most foul,” cries the ghost of Hamlet’s father to explain his own killing in Shakespeare’s play.

Tribune News Service

Alison Steadman: ‘We filmed the sex scene in the New Forest, so it was quite prickly’

The actor on working with Dennis Potter, channelling real life in Abigail’s Party and a groundbreaking lesbian snog

The Guardian - UK

Searching for Juliet by Sophie Duncan review – the many faces of a heroine

An engaging guide to Shakespeare’s most famous female role – and how it has been misread and misplayed for centuries

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Leaps of joy

Presented in collaboration with the Tourism Authority of Thailand and B.Grimm, the Royal Bangkok Symphony Orchestra continued their wonderfully varied 2023 concert season at the Thailand Cultural Centre earlier this month with a programme devoted entirely to the incomparable genius of German composer Felix Mendelssohn.

The Conversation

The Winter’s Tale review: jarring Shakespeare's Globe production lacks warmth

The Winter’s Tale is one of Shakespeare’s great “hospitality plays” – a tragicomedy about what goes wrong when a guest outstays their welcome.

Los Angeles Times

'Great Expectations' review: A dismal remodel of a Charles Dickens tale

FX, in partnership with the BBC, has made a dreary, dismal and not very Dickensian miniseries out of Charles Dickens' "Great Expectations." And while that seems to be in some measure the point, it is, all the same, dreary and dismal and does not count so much as an adaptation…

Cinemablend

Great Expectations Cast: Where You've Seen The Stars Of FX's Charles Dickens-Based TV Show

The Great Expectations cast should make this miniseries adaptation of the Charles Dickens classic worth a look.

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The Guardian - UK

Rare copy of Othello shows a cast list involved in real-life murder drama

A 1655 edition of Shakespeare’s tragedy names members of an acting troupe, one of whom was slain in an eerie echo of the play

Daily Mirror

Teacher in awe as students gift him 152-page book of 'craziest' things he's ever said

People have been left gobsmacked after a group of students worked together to create what might just be the funniest present ever - as they gifted their teacher a book of his unusual sayings

The Guardian - UK

Two sides to a story: why feminist retellings are filling our bookshelves

From Nineteen Eighty-Four’s Julia to Shakespeare’s Rosaline, the trend for a new perspective on a familiar tale is continuing apace. Authors and publishers explain what old stories tell us about today

The Guardian - UK

Geraldine James cast as Rosalind in RSC production of As You Like It

The 72-year-old actor will play a young woman in the latest example of age-blind casting in a Shakespeare production

Daily Mirror

Erling Haaland knows one record is out of reach - set by striker compared to Shakespeare

Dixie Dean is the Everton forward who scored 60 league goals in the 1927-28 season - and Haaland would have to score a hat-trick in every one of his final 11 top-flight games to beat the record

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GPT-4 shouldn’t worry anybody – we just need to be better

Text generators have been around for years, but they’ve finally gotten good. Where previous iterations required a heavy edit, the latest version of ChatGPT from OpenAI writes with better grammar than I – sorry, me. But both chatbots and generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools like the newly launched GPT-4 also…

Chicago Sun-Times

Shakespeare, Golden Age of Film collide on the outskirts of ‘Comedy of Errors’

Even though we get nearly the full story, “The Comedy of Errors” feels more sampled than fully done.

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