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To see or not to see? Every single Shakespeare play – ranked!

Antony and Cleopatra? Exhausting. Lear? Magnificent but flawed. Hamlet? Limitless. For Shakespeare’s birthday, the Guardian’s former theatre critic ranks all the plays

The Guardian - UK

The Martini Shot review – Matthew Modine and a cast to die for can’t fathom an unholy mess

Modine plays a dying director shooting his final film – alongside Derek Jacobi, John Cleese and Stuart Townsend – in this baffling existential drama

The Guardian - UK

Moss and Freud review – Kate meets Lucian and they get on brilliantly with absolutely no funny business at all

London film festival: The supermodel comes across as a dippy trustafarian and the artist like her soppy old grandpa in this bland, legacy-protecting depiction of their friendship

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Breaking the Code review – tribute to Alan Turing given a fascinating update

Hugh Whitemore’s 1986 play about the criminalised mathematician is revised, with a new epilogue by Neil Bartlett, to reflect his 2013 pardoning

The Guardian - UK

Juliet and Romeo strains to be meaningful but never earns its emotional crescendos

The new musical film Juliet and Romeo arrives on screen with lavish visuals, saccharine pop songs and a reworked Shakespearean plot that tries to dazzle. With its vivid colour palette and dreamy masquerade aesthetic, this is Verona as filtered through a Eurovision lens: glittering, melodramatic and frequently overwrought.

The Conversation

Rebel Wilson: ‘I always wanted to be like Judi Dench. But people like laughing at me’

The actor on plans for a new Pitch Perfect, pretending to lick Ian McKellen and Derek Jacobi’s ‘fun grandpa vibe’

The Guardian - UK

Tinsel Town: cast, plot, first look and everything you need to know

Tinsel Town is a Christmas comedy with Kiefer Sutherland, Rebel Wilson, Danny Dyer and Sir Derek Jacobi among the cast.

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Danny Dyer and Sir Derek Jacobi join cast of ‘screen legends’ for Christmas film

Dyer joins Rebel Wilson, Kiefer Sutherland, Katherine Ryan and Mawaan Rizwan in the film Tinsel Town.

Evening Standard

‘She would have been in awe of him’: how Laurence Olivier gave Margaret Thatcher private seduction lessons

New drama, When Maggie Met Larry, reveals exactly how the world’s most famous actor coached the fledgling Iron Lady

The Guardian - UK

Gladiator 2 stars praise Ridley Scott’s directorial approach at London premiere

Gladiator 2 stars reflected on working with Sir Ridley Scott as they walked the red carpet at the film’s London premiere on Wednesday, 13 November.

The Independent UK

Mark Rylance and Derek Jacobi to share a stage for Shakespeare show

The theatrical giants will raise money for one of London’s newest theatres

Evening Standard

Disputes about Shakespeare’s authorship are much ado about nothing

Letters: Oliver Kamm, Adrian Blamires and Rik Edwards respond to Derek Jacobi and Margo Anderson’s argument that The Merry Wives of Windsor was really penned by Edward de Vere. And Peter Nockolds suggests another Shakespeare theory

The Guardian - UK

Michael Culver obituary

Stage and screen actor known for his political campaigning, both in his choice of roles and his personal life

The Guardian - UK

'I'm disgracing a national treasure': Emma Moran on Extraordinary season 2's star cameo

In Extraordinary season 2, Sir Derek Jacobi narrates a string of Jen's lies in her "mind library". Here's how creator Emma Moran felt sending him his lines.

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OPINION - The National Youth Theatre is amazing, but it may be too late to save the future of British drama

The list of alumni speaks for itself but how will today’s young talent find its way onto our stages when the arts are being so comprehensively kicked from all sides?

The Guardian - UK

Mark Shelmerdine obituary

TV and film producer who started in business with rights to the Poldark and I, Claudius novels acquired by Alexander Korda

The Guardian - UK

A Stroke of the Pen by Terry Pratchett audiobook review – brimming with wit

David Tennant, Claire Foy and Derek Jacobi are among the narrators of early short stories that offer a glimpse into how the writer found his voice

Evening Standard

We rank different iterations of The Crown's characters: from Claire Foy to Emma Corrin, who comes out on top?

Over the seven long years of the hit Netflix show, dozens of actors have stepped up to play our enigmatic royals, but who did it best?

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Sir Michael Gambon dies: his best on screen roles, from Dumbledore to Maigret

The legendary stage actor, known as The Great Gambon, has starred in everything from Doctor Who to Cranford, and from Gosford Park to The King’s Speech over his stellar seven-decade career

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The Following Events are Based on a Pack of Lies cast

Who's in The Following Events Are Based On A Pack Of Lies cast? Meet the stars that crop up in this dark BBC comedy-thriller, and who they're playing.

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The Following Events Are Based On A Pack of Lies: release date, cast, plot, trailer, interviews and all about the drama

The Following Events Are Based On A Pack of Lies on BBC1 stars Rebecca Staton, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Derek Jacobi and Romola Garai.

Evening Standard

The Following Events Are Based on a Pack of Lies: who’s playing who in the BBC’s thrilling new con artist show

It’s going to get messy

Evening Standard

OPINION - Groundbreaking legislation has turned into a singular success

Pop the champagne, equal marriage has been a seismic success

The Independent UK

Queen Camilla ditches royal protocol when greeting Joanna Lumley and Judi Dench

Typical protocol is observed by bowing or curtseying when greeting a monarch

Evening Standard

Tory donor Crispin Odey denies the door is shut at close friend’s club

Odey was once described as “a valued member of 5 Hertford Street”

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