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Play On! at the Lyric Hammersmith review: Twelfth Night relocated to Harlem's Cotton Club

4/5 This sassy musical sets Shakespeare to the music of Duke Ellington

Evening Standard

Hayley Atwell on theatre, Tom Cruise and the tabloids: ‘I’ve reached the point where I’m OK if I’m not liked’

From shooting guns in Mission: Impossible films to appearing in a new West End production of Shakespeare, the actor has proved there’s nothing she can’t do. But, she says, there are now a few things she won’t

The Guardian - UK

Lonely bats, naming spats and advice for Liz Truss – take the Thursday quiz

Questions on general knowledge and topical trivia, plus a few jokes, every Thursday. How will you fare?

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Women have finally achieved parity on VCE English reading lists, but there are fewer classics

What makes something worthy of study and inclusion on a school’s text list? Is it right to remove or add a literary work based on the attributes of the person who wrote it?

The Conversation

RSC goes for Hamlet hat-trick with production of Fat Ham

James Ijames’s Pulitzer-winning play will be part of new season alongside adaptation of Roald Dahl’s The BFG

The Guardian - UK

Sigourney Weaver's West End performance hijacked by Just Stop Oil protesters

Two people have been arrested after storming the stage during Sigourney Weaver's 'The Tempest' play.

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‘We were booed. I felt proud’: Daniel Evans on his rollercoaster journey to RSC supremo

The joint RSC boss is on unstoppable form, making a blistering return to the stage with a 4:48 Psychosis performed in the small hours – and an Edward II that will be a ‘screw you’ to his school bullies

The Guardian - UK

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Christopher Benjamin obituary

Veteran stage, radio and TV actor whose many notable Shakespearean roles included Falstaff and Bottom

The Guardian - UK

The week in theatre: Play On!; A Good House; Moby Dick – review

The spirit of Duke Ellington pulses through a glorious musical spin on Twelfth Night; neighbourliness has its limits in Amy Jephta’s South African satire; and puppets have a whale of a time with Herman Melville

The Guardian - UK

Professors teaching Gen Z say they're more anxious than millennials and have already given up on the American Dream

Gen Z really are different from their millennial predecessors professors say. But employers are party to blame for their lack of pizzazz.

Fortune

Cymbeline at Sam Wanamaker Playhouse review: a bold and vivid version of a Shakespeare deep cut

4/5 This production of this late Shakespeare romance blends comedy, horror and absurdity to vivid effect

Evening Standard

Play On! review – a warm, elegant comedy that brings 1940s swing to Shakespeare

Twelfth Night is relocated to the Cotton Club in this sparkling musical, which luxuriates in its musicality and movement

The Guardian - UK

Grand Theft Auto's Biggest Release in 2025 May Have Already Come Out

This GTA Hamlet that you speak of... what is it? The strange new documentary finds the intersection between Shakespeare and video games.

Inverse

Why bad posh English accents still rule Hollywood, from Nosferatu to Gladiator II

In two of the biggest films released this summer, Gladiator II and Nosferatu, most actors seem to be speaking like they’re in a Shakespeare play – even though their characters are based in Ancient Rome and 1830s Germany. Where does this false British accent come from?

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Evening Standard

Jay McGuiness gives update on The Wanted bandmate Max George after 'scary' health woes

EXCLUSIVE: The boybander-turned-theatre star says he has been in touch with his pal who has faced a number of health complications over the past month

The Guardian - AU

These three actors played Hamlet. Now they’re playing actors in Hamlet rehab

Brendan Cowell, Ewen Leslie and Toby Schmitz insist they’re not playing themselves in Hamlet Camp – where actors go to recover not from drugs or sex, but Shakespeare

The Guardian - UK

Twelfth Night review – a musically uplifting, concept-heavy RSC production

Shakespeare’s fleet-footed romance is somewhat constrained by Prasanna Puwanarajah’s direction, yet there are memorable moments

The Guardian - UK

Simon Schama: ‘Britain is a much more tolerant place now. I’m Mr Sunshine on this’

The historian on taking the social pulse of the nation in his new TV series, why we’re such word addicts, and his fear that the needle in the US is moving towards red

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“They said, ‘Uh, okay!’ They didn’t know what I was talking about – and in a way, neither did I”: How William Shatner learned to love prog and make an all-star album with all the humanity of classic Star Trek

Knowing some people would never get over the novelty, Billy Sherwood decided to go for broke with Ponder The Mystery, featuring Steve Vai, Rick Wakeman, Nik Turner, Edgar Froese and others

The Conversation

How midlife became a crisis

In the acknowledgments of her 2024 novel “All Fours,” Miranda July explains that she was inspired by a series of conversations about “physical and emotional midlife changes” with several women close to her.

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From Bins To Biscuits, Here Are 40 Times People Caught The UK Being Unapologetically British (New Pics)

Saying sorry to inanimate objects, mastering the art of queueing, Shakespeare, and a classic serving of fish and chips—yes, it’s peak Britishness we’re celebrating today. The post From Bins To Biscuits, Here Are 40 Times People Caught The UK Being Unapologetically British (New Pics) first appeared on Bored Panda.

The Guardian - UK

Impoverished authors are told they should do it for the love. Try saying that to a dentist

The average income for a writer is now £7,000. For our sake and the country’s, we need financial assistance

The Guardian - UK

From Edvard Munch to Central Cee: Observer critics choose their cultural highlights for 2025

From Thom Yorke’s Shakespearean score to 25 years of Tate Modern, Bridget Jones to Leigh Bowery, our writers anticipate the most exciting shows, releases and events of the year

The Independent UK

Starmer warned Brexit even putting performances of Shakespeare at risk

Exclusive: Urgent action is required to save a leading theatre company at risk of closure as a result of Brexit, the prime minister has been warned

The Guardian - UK

TV figures, chess shenanigans and Shakespeare’s wife – take the Thursday quiz

Questions on general knowledge and topical trivia, plus a few jokes, every Thursday. How will you fare?

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