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Jenny Baynes obituary

Other lives: English teacher who encouraged disaffected teenagers to engage with Shakespeare, poetry and drama

The Guardian - UK

A Midsummer Night’s Dream review – characters mash, worlds invert and flames burst from fingers

Eleanor Rhode’s ravishing fusion of flamboyancy, surrealism and raucous fun rouses audiences in a youthful, energetic riot

The Guardian - UK

The film’s the thing: Ian McKellen’s new Hamlet shows the screen can outdo the stage

Sean Mathias has reimagined his 2021 production of Shakespeare’s tragedy as a movie, inventively using Windsor’s Theatre Royal and capturing McKellen’s subtle performance

The Guardian - UK

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Scrap trigger warnings for theatre audiences, says Ralph Fiennes

Audiences should be ‘shocked and disturbed’ by the impact of theatre, says Schindler’s List and Harry Potter actor

The Guardian - UK

Tom Holland leaps from Spider-Man to Shakespeare’s Romeo in West End

Jamie Lloyd will direct the star in ‘a pulsating new vision of the immortal tale of wordsmiths, rhymers, lovers and fighters’

The Guardian - UK

Trump betrays the Ukrainians again

Republicans could have ended their Trump problem when he misused his office to support Putin the first time

Salon

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

The Guardian - UK

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Non-disabled Richard III actor to press on despite calls for recast

Michelle Terry, who is also the Globe’s artistic director, says she will not alter her physicality for role

The Guardian - UK

Othello review – Shakespeare’s tragedy interrogated in New Scotland Yard

Ola Ince’s production is set within a hostile modern police force and has DCI Othello’s unconscious portrayed by a second actor

The Guardian - UK

Othello at Shakespeare's Globe review: arresting update set in the toxic Met Police feels horribly credible

This intimate, powerful production transposed from Venice to the Met in London refreshes the play and feels horribly credible

Evening Standard

Translation is a challenge, as more works are made into Tamil with a boom in publishing

The translation of Shakespeare's Hamlet into Tamil at the Chennai Book Fair highlights the challenges and importance of translation in the publishing industry.

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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

The Guardian - UK

The RSC’s new power duo: ‘It’s a mammoth job. That’s why we want to do it shoulder to shoulder’

Tamara Harvey and Daniel Evans, the company’s new co-artistic directors, on work-life balance, their first season in charge – and what they’ll do when they disagree

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Shakespeare combines with sport for special shows

It's England v France in Henry V at Viking Park.

The Guardian - UK

Shakespeare’s Globe criticised for casting non-disabled actor as Richard III

Disabled actors respond to the announcement that Michelle Terry, the Globe’s artistic director, will be taking up the role

TechRadar

I went on a Grand Day Out and attended a VR Blackpink concert: my favorite Meta Quest 3 games and apps of January 2024

In January 2024, I went to Mars with Wallace and Gromit, kicked-ass in Bulletstorm VR, and attended a Blackpink concert.

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

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The Guardian - US

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 - 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

‘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

Tom’s Guide

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.

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