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Helen Mirren and Ian McKellen launch new Shakespeare curriculum

Dame Helen Mirren has expressed her profound excitement over a new Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) curriculum, designed to revolutionise the teaching of Shakespeare in UK secondary schools.

The Independent UK

Wendy & Peter Pan at the Barbican review: 'heavy stuff but lightly done'

4/5 Ella Hickson’s adaptation sees the Royal Shakespeare Company explore sibling death and queer subtext alongside the pirates and crocodiles

Evening Standard

More than half of RSC staff urged to apply for voluntary redundancy

Arts institution seeks to make ‘urgent’ savings as it is thought to be facing a shortfall of between £5m and £6m

The Guardian - UK

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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’

The Guardian - UK

Oil industry funded Girl Scouts and British Museum to boost image, evidence suggests

BP has funded Washington’s National Gallery of Art, UK’s Royal Shakespeare Company and National Portrait Gallery

The Guardian - US

Royal Shakespeare Company excited to stage Roald Dahl’s ‘inspirational’ BFG

The stage adaptation by playwright Tom Wells will delight families over the festive period across a 10-week run at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre.

The Independent UK

The Royal Shakespeare Company has announced a Her Story-like game where you hack into Lady MacBeth's computer

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Here's why The School for Scandal (at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre) is on our must-watch list

The RSC is taking The School for Scandal to new heights with a lavish production at their Stratford theatre

Marie Claire

Gore blimey! The surprising source of a special effect in Titus Andronicus

Letter: Peter Gildener on the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 2003 production with David Bradley in the eponymous role

The Guardian - UK

Gregory Doran: ‘Shakespeare defines things when you can’t’

As the RSC’s artistic director steps down after 35 years and 50 shows, he talks about the productions he’s most proud of, his new memoir, and the loss of his husband, the actor Antony Sher

The Guardian - UK

The RSC’s My Neighbor Totoro set to make triumphant return to the stage after sell out run

The play is currently in the running for nine Olivier Awards

Evening Standard

My Neighbour Totoro nominated for nine Olivier awards

Stage version of 1988 Japanese animation leads the pack while Standing at the Sky’s Edge has eight nominations

The Guardian - UK

Tracy-Ann Oberman looks back: ‘I’m thinking, What’s this? I want to be a princess!’

The actor and campaigner recreates an early moment dressed as a cowboy and recalls growing up with tough matriarchs

The Guardian - UK

Our weekend arts and culture picks, from The Tempest to the Brit Awards

The Independent’s team of critics and editors select the best cultural things to do over the weekend

The Independent UK

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Bristol Post

The Bristol ceramicist working with some of the nation's best restaurants

She's gone from painting scenery for the Royal Shakespeare Company in China to having her own backyard pottery studio in Greenbank

The Independent UK

Royal Opera House ends sponsorship relationship with BP after 33 years

Major move comes after numerous arts insitutions, from The Royal Shakespeare Company to the National Portrait Gallery, have cut their ties with the oil company

Daily Mirror

Sir Patrick Stewart reveals he wanted to turn down Star Trek role but kids encouraged him

After 36 years playing the iconic captain of the Enterprise, Sir Patrick Stewart is returning to Star Trek for the final time - and admits he knew nothing about Star Trek when he was offered the job

The Guardian - UK

Chichester Festival theatre appoints Justin Audibert as new artistic director

Audibert, who runs the Unicorn children’s theatre in London, will replace Daniel Evans who is moving to the Royal Shakespeare Company

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The Guardian - UK

Stephen Greif obituary

The Crown and Blake’s 7 actor who performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre

The Guardian - UK

Is the writing on the wall for the British Museum’s BP deal?

Chair of the museum, George Osborne, says it no longer wants to be a ‘destination for climate protest’

The Guardian - UK

Bridgerton’s Adjoa Andoh to explore societal prejudices by playing Richard III

Bridgerton actor, who will also direct the production, says she wants to talk about ‘body pathologising’

The Guardian - UK

‘It has added political resonance this year’: why Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol still strikes a chord

Audiences can choose from a glut of Ebenezers this festive season, with the infamous miser a more pointed character than ever in these hard times

The Guardian - UK

Timothy O’Brien obituary

Stage designer who worked for the Royal Shakespeare Company, at the National Theatre in London and opera houses in the UK and abroad

The Independent UK

The Week on Stage: From My Neighbour Totoro to Marvellous

A guide to the week’s theatre

The Guardian - UK

My Neighbour Totoro review – dazzling staging of the Studio Ghibli classic

The Royal Shakespeare Company’s production has astonishing puppetry, magical music and huge emotional impact

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