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Shakespeare’s Globe to replace 30-year-old roof with 14,000 reed bundles in £10m project

Shakespeare’s Globe in London is set for a major roof replacement nearly 30 years after the reconstructed theatre opened. The £10 million project will use traditional thatching and around 14,000 bundles of reed instead of modern roofing materials. The Globe’s original roof used 6,000 bundles of Norfolk reeds. The project…

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‘That’s what saved me’: Darren Raymond and Mark Rylance on the prison drama workshop that brought them together

A masterclass led by the actor helped set Raymond on a new path. Now the head of a theatre company, he has coaxed his friend back to the stage for a show to encourage young people to fall in love with performing

The Guardian - UK

Al Pacino honoured with Shakespeare award

He's best known for his film roles in Hollywood but Al Pacino has now been recognised for his theatre performances in many of William Shakespeare's plays.

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Al Pacino ‘deeply grateful’ as he receives prestigious Shakespeare award

Al Pacino has been confirmed as the recipient of the Sam Wanamaker Award

The Independent UK

Mother Courage and Her Children: Big, bold populist political theatre

4/5 Michelle Terry gives a bravura performance in this first staging of Brecht at Shakespeare’s Globe

Evening Standard

Mother Courage and her Children review – moving, funny and savage portrait of life during wartime

Forgoing Brecht’s usual distanciation, Anna Jordan’s new translation and Michelle Terry’s lovable performance bring out the humanity of a woman doing what’s necessary to keep herself and her family alive

The Guardian - UK

Shakespeare’s Globe launches environmental playwright prize

Theatre says it will harness art ‘to inspire societal shifts towards restorative relationship with nature’

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‘He was fulfilling his dream’: Chadwick Boseman’s brothers on bringing his play to the UK

IN FOCUS: Unbeknownst to many, the actor so beloved as Black Panther was also a playwright. Six years after his death, his 2005 play about the killing of his friend at the hands of a policeman is making its UK debut. His brothers, Kevin and Derrick, speak with Annabel Nugent…

The Independent UK

The Tempest review: Caliban wears a Gazza shirt in fascinating and fresh take

3/5 Tim Crouch’s take on Shakespeare’s final play doesn’t always come together but is filled with plenty of magical moments

Evening Standard

Pinocchio at Shakespeare's Globe: 'Chaos addict puppet will delight children'

4/5 Pinocchio is a whirlwind of chaos in this entertaining new musical which refuses to preach

Evening Standard

A Midsummer Night's Dream at Shakespeare's Globe: 'Like a sexed-up Narnia'

4/5 This winter-set spin on the play brings a fairy tale dark edge to proceedings with unnerving effect

Evening Standard

Troilus and Cressida review – history repeats as farce in Pythonesque takedown of ancient heroes

Achilles is a slob and Ajax is a meathead in Owen Horsley’s streamlined production, which is bursting with invention and comic inversions

The Guardian - UK

Troilus and Cressida at Shakespeare’s Globe: 'A study of toxic masculinity'

4/5 A triumphant and timely look at war, sex and masculinity at the Shakespeare’s Globe

Evening Standard

Shakespeare for children: an expert’s top ten books to spark their imagination

As pupils head back to school, they may well encounter Shakespeare’s plays and poems – perhaps for the first time.

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The Guardian - UK

The Merry Wives of Windsor review – Shakespeare’s script is the weakest bit of this joyous revel

Falstaff’s corpulent roisterings are energetically played in Sean Holmes’ summery staging but the homely comedy comes laden with innuendo and xenophobia

Evening Standard

The Merry Wives of Windsor at Shakespeare’s Globe: rare London revival is a treat

4/5 Led by George Fouracres at Falstaff this is full of zest

The Guardian - UK

The Crucible review – Miller’s resonant tale of terror given radical sense of humour

Director Ola Ince brings absurdist comedy to Arthur Miller’s classic drama of Salem witch-hunting

The Guardian - UK

Abuse, witch-hunts and hangings: why Arthur Miller’s masterpiece The Crucible still haunts us

What’s behind all the revivals of the shocking parable about terrifying McCarthyism in 1950s America? Our writer reflects on how, through the decades, each fresh production finds new meanings that address our times

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The Guardian - UK

Macbeth review – a dynamic tragedy of somersaulting ambition

This brisk staging for young audiences has acrobatic witches and action-movie fights but misses some of the play’s bloodcurdling weirdness

The Independent UK

Disabled actor let go by Globe theatre after alleging sex abuse settles

Olivier Award nominee Athena Stevens said she felt ‘relieved’ after settling with Shakespeare’s Globe theatre.

Evening Standard

Actor sues Shakespeare's Globe theatre over response to 'abuse' disclosure

Athena Stevens says she was traumatised by Shakespeare’s Globe bosses’ response to her disclosure of ‘sexual abuse’

The Guardian - UK

Christopher Benjamin obituary

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

The Guardian - UK

Claire van Kampen, theatre director and composer, dies aged 71

Wife of actor Mark Rylance worked in various roles at Shakespeare’s Globe and had been diagnosed with cancer

Evening Standard

Director Claire van Kampen dies aged 71 on birthday of her husband Mark Rylance

She died in the German town of Kassel surrounded by her family on Saturday morning, a statement on behalf of Sir Mark and her daughter Juliet said.

The Independent UK

Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre evacuated after firework ‘launched by Algerian football fans’ lands in audience

Audience evacuated to basement after misguided firework landed in Globe Theatre

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