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A new Henry V is a barometer of our times – what can Shakespeare’s war play tell us amid global chaos?

Revivals of this history play usually reflect the politics of the moment. Now a fresh RSC retelling arrives in a world of instability and fractured alliances

The Guardian - UK

UK actors vote to refuse to be digitally scanned in pushback against AI

Equity says vote signals strong opposition to AI use and readiness to disrupt productions unless protections are secured

The Guardian - UK

Stephen Fry and Joanna Lumley among celebrities urging UK not to weaken torture protections

Public figures sign letter saying plan to reinterpret ECHR for asylum seekers is ‘affront to us all’ and a threat to security

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Cyrano de Bergerac review – Adrian Lester brings sublime soul to roistering romance

The giant-hootered lover ventriloquising his passion for Roxane through a physically dashing rival is the standout star of this warm and likable revival

The Guardian - UK

The Hack: release date, cast, plot, trailer, interview and everything we know

The Hack is a hotly anticipated phone hacking drama starring David Tennant.

WhatToWatch

Sam Mendes, Adrian Lester and James Nesbitt honoured by Paul McCartney at LIPA

Indie band The Wombats, who met while studying at the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts, were also honoured.

Evening Standard

Adrian Lester and Alfred Enoch lead Royal Shakespeare Company’s ‘global’ new season

Joint artistic directors Daniel Evans and Tamara Harvey say 2025/26 programme is celebration of ‘a 21st-century RSC’

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Outlander’s Sam Heughan to play Macbeth in Royal Shakespeare Company debut

The British theatre company has announced a new raft of programming.

Evening Standard

Netflix adds glossy Julia Stiles thriller that had me hooked

Riviera on Netflix now has just the right mix of intrigue and glamour...

WhatToWatch

The week in theatre: Echo; Visit From an Unknown Woman; The Baker’s Wife – review

Fiona Shaw, Adrian Lester, Toby Jones and more explore the refugee experience in an intriguing multimedia show

The Guardian - UK

Echo review – starry meditation on shapeshifting meaning of home

Various actors, including Adrian Lester and Fiona Shaw, step into playwright Nassim Soleimanpour’s shoes as he reckons with the possibility of never returning to Iran

The Guardian - UK

ECHO at the Royal Court review: there's novelty value in these star-studded cold reads but is there artistic value?

Actors from Jodie Whittaker to Emilia Clarke are taking part unrehearsed and unprepared in this slippery metatheatrical experience each night

Evening Standard

Sandman season 2 gets first look and new cast members: "It’s going to be one Hell of a family reunion"

All seven of the Endless are finally here

Total Film

The Sandman season 2 has found its Delirium, Destiny, and The Prodigal – and they're all curiously great hires

Netflix has confirmed which actors have signed on to play the final three members of The Endless.

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Amnesty International's Shocking Short Film Exposes How UK's Squalid Housing Kills Children

Temporary accommodation contributed to the deaths of more than 34 children since April 2019.

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Quentin Blake’s Box of Treasures: where to watch, stories, cast and everything we know

Quentin Blake’s Box of Treasures added two iconic stories to their special animated collection.

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Renegade Nell: release date, cast, plot, trailer, interview, first looks and all about the swashbuckling adventure series

Renegade Nell is a Disney Plus fantasy series with Derry Girls star Louisa Harland playing a notorious highwaywoman in a series by Happy Valley writer Sally Wainwright.

The Guardian - UK

Actors, musicians and campaigners call for faster Windrush compensation

Lady Doreen Lawrence, Adrian Lester and Annie Lennox among those putting pressure on Home Office to speed up process

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The Guardian - UK

David Harewood on Blackface review – a shocking, deeply moving piece of television

In a personal look at the shocking origins of minstrelsy, the actor speaks truth to power on the same channel that showed blackface in his living room when he was growing up

The Guardian - UK

TV tonight: Mo Gilligan is the undisputed king of Friday night comedy

Adrian Lester is a guest on the raucous chatshow. Plus: Poopdeck Pete the parrot assists Sister Boniface on her return. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

By all means cry God for Harry, England and St George. Just don’t puff out your chest too far

A new production of Henry V has been called a ‘woke King Harry’ – but Englishness has always been complex

The Guardian - UK

‘The greatest director the world has ever seen’ – actors salute Peter Brook

Adrian Lester stripped back Hamlet with him, Janet Suzman can still hear the audience gasp, Glenda Jackson dug deep for the director and for Frances de la Tour he was incomparable

The Independent UK

Peter Brook death: ‘Genius’ theatre director dies aged 97

‘The man was a giant in our field,’ Adrian Lester tweeted

The Guardian - UK

Peter Brook, influential theatre visionary, dies aged 97

The director’s landmark achievements include a nine-hour Mahabharata, putting Shakespeare on trapezes and directing Olivier, Gielgud and Scofield at the RSC

The Guardian - UK

The week in TV: The Undeclared War; Aids: The Unheard Tapes; Sherwood; Only Murders in the Building and more

Coders fight to save Britain in Peter Kosminsky’s masterly cyberdrama; lip-synced Aids testimonies hit home; and James Graham’s Sherwood draws to a thrilling close

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