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Quote of the Day by George Bernard Shaw: "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying..." Learn the life-changing wisdom from the visionary thinker who believed the world's greatest breakthroughs come from those bold enough to challenge the status quo

Quote of the Day by George Bernard Shaw highlights a powerful truth about success, personal growth, leadership, innovation, and progress. In today’s fast-changing world, people often adapt to existing rules. Shaw’s wisdom challenges that mindset. Great inventions, social change, and human advancement began when someone refused to accept limits. This…

The Economic Times

'Incentives Matter': 6 Valuable Lessons From Economics About Work and Retirement

While critics complain that economists are always at odds, there are plenty of areas of agreement that contain valuable lessons for our working lives and more.

Kiplinger

Here’s why King Charles is coming to America. And it is not the reason the president thinks

As George Bernard Shaw said, Britain and America share a language but not a worldview—and the gap between the U.S. and Europe is only growing.

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Saint Joan review – urgency and drive in Stewart Laing’s modernist adaptation of George Bernard Shaw

Newcomer Mandipa Kabanda plays the Maid of Orleans from obscure teenager to army-commanding conqueror, tearing through dialogue with rare pace

The Guardian - UK

Dear Liar review – George Bernard Shaw spars with the original Eliza in Pygmalion

Jerome Kilty’s fusty two-hander charts the cantankerous and flirtatious relationship between the playwright and actor Mrs Patrick Campbell

The Guardian - UK

Les Misérables: a musical full of heart and hope that continues to defy its critics

When it opened in 1985, the mighty Les Mis got some rotten reviews. Forty years on, our writer sees it afresh and producer Cameron Mackintosh reflects on the show’s spectacular success

The Guardian - UK

Censorship campaigns can have a way of backfiring – look no further than the fate of America’s most prolific censor

In the first year of President Donald Trump’s second term in office, his administration has made many attempts to suppress speech it disfavors – at universities, on the airwaves, in public school classrooms, in museums, at protests and even in lawyer’s offices.

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‘Please don’t fart, this is art’ – Stephen Sondheim’s musical The Frogs review

A droll Dionysos, an ab-obsessed himbo and a waddling ballet for goggle-clad frogs can’t outshine Sondheim’s songs in this rarely seen version of the ancient Greek satire

The Guardian - UK

The Frogs at Southwark Playhouse review: bursting with unfulfilled promise

3/5 Stephen Sondheim’s weirdest show gets its moment in the spotlight

Evening Standard

Imelda Staunton and her daughter Bessie Carter: ‘I saw Mum on stage marrying a stranger and started to cry’

INTERVIEW: The mother and daughter make a marvellous pair on stage in ‘Mrs Warren’s Profession’. Claire Allfree sits down with the duo to talk Academy Awards, the Harry Potter reboot, and what younger actors can learn from the late Queen’s work ethic

The Independent UK

Mrs Warren’s Profession review – Imelda Staunton in formidable form as brothel-keeper

Filial tangles, played with the actor’s real-life daughter Bessie Carter, bring George Bernard Shaw’s once-banned drama to life

The Guardian - UK

Mrs Warren’s Profession review: 'why does it feel so mechanical?'

2/5 Imelda Staunton stars opposite her real life daughter Bessie Carter in a George Bernard Shaw production that tends to drag even with huge cuts

Evening Standard

RFK Jr. said many autistic people will never write a poem − even though there’s a rich history of neurodivergent poets and writers

U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently declared autism a national “epidemic,” calling it a “preventable disease” that is growing at an “alarming rate.”

The Conversation

Enough Is Enuf by Gabe Henry review – the battle to reform English spelling

Philadelphia’s Speling Reform Asoshiashun wasn’t the only group to demand a simpler way of putting things in print

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‘You wouldn’t pick us out as mother and daughter!’: Imelda Staunton and Bessie Carter on acting together for the first time

Bridgerton star Bessie – soon to play Nancy Mitford in a new TV drama – and her mum, acting royalty Imelda, talk Sondheim, sandwiches and taking the stage together in Shaw’s sex worker scandal Mrs Warren’s Profession

The Guardian - UK

National Theatre’s shift from repertory plays risks ‘eroding culture’, says David Hare

Playwright calls for return to theatre’s founding vision and to stop ‘angling for West End’

The Guardian - UK

Imelda Staunton and daughter Bessie Carter to star in West End revival of Mrs Warren’s Profession

The actors will share the stage for the first time in George Bernard’s Shaw’s drama about ‘the role of women in society’

International Business Times

'Anti-war' Comedy Directed By Malkovich Riles Bulgarian Nationalists

A 19th-century play directed by US actor John Malkovich has enraged nationalists in Bulgaria who call it an insult to the country -- a claim the Hollywood star rejected as stirred up by the far right.

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Salon

Don't despair. This isn't doomsday

It’s not doomsday — but the billionaires have won and their supporters will suffer

The Conversation

The Diplomat season two explores the US-UK special relationship – and couldn’t be more timely

The Guardian - UK

Bill Nighy: I stole complete works of Shakespeare to help me get into drama school

Actor says he took books after applying to acting school to impress a girl, but he now refuses to perform in Bard’s plays

Evening Standard

Bill Nighy says he stole ‘complete works of Shakespeare’ from a library

The star said he applied for drama school to impress a girl.

The Guardian - UK

Are you not entertained? The XVIII best films about the Romans – ranked!

With Gladiator II thrusting into cinematic arenas next month, we hand out laurels to the greatest sword-and-sandal movies of them all

The Guardian - UK

One word is the answer to my daughter’s car-sickness … and everything else

If she cries or struggles, we say ‘holiday!’ and the sacred word magically dispels the arduous longueurs of car travel

The Guardian - UK

My Fair Lady review – an abso-bloomin’-lutely loverly musical

Opera North brings shimmering music to this gorgeous and crisply choreographed co-production, which preserves Shaw’s critique of the British class system

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