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Landmark levy: which iconic London sights give the biggest boost to nearby property prices?

Research reveals the extra value achieved by home sellers close to the capital's most famous places

Evening Standard

Man in gimp suit allowed to watch Shakespeare’s Globe play with children in audience

Theatregoer watches The Comedy of Errors dressed in full latex fetish suit and mask

The Independent UK

Director Adele Thomas: ‘In theatre, you need a private income just to live’

The theatre and opera director on how her working-class Welsh background informs her work, the strangeness of Il trovatore, and her eclectic running playlist

The Guardian - UK

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The Winter’s Tale review: jarring Shakespeare's Globe production lacks warmth

The Winter’s Tale is one of Shakespeare’s great “hospitality plays” – a tragicomedy about what goes wrong when a guest outstays their welcome.

The Conversation

The best theatre to see in 2023, from A Little Life to The Pillowman

‘A Little Life’ comes to the stage, Sheridan Smith and Lily Allen return to the West End, and ‘The Merchant of Venice’ is transported to 1930s Cable Street – we bring you our guide to 2023’s most exciting theatre

The Independent UK

72 Upper Ground: the latest development selling the Thames down the river

The riverside was once lauded as ‘London’s greatest opportunity’. But a lack of strategy has left it crowded with unsightly towers that put developers before communities

The Guardian - UK

Jodie Whittaker — things you didn't know about the Toxic Town star

Jodie Whittaker was the first female to lead Doctor Who, but what else is there to know about her?

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‘I threw my arms around Beckett!’ – electrifying first nights, by Ciarán Hinds, Eileen Atkins and more

The author of a new book about the greatest openings in theatre history asks stars of stage to recall their most thrilling first nights – and the occasional disasters that befell them

The Guardian - UK

Joan of Arc to be made non-binary in new Globe production

The historical figure is known for leading the French in battles against English soldiers in the Hundred Years War

Evening Standard

The Tempest review – the bard in budgie smugglers

Sean Holmes’s gleefully comic take is a riot of holiday colour and fun, featuring luminous lilos, stag do bantz and a playful Prospero in eyewateringly tight trunks

The Guardian - UK

The week in theatre: Patriots; The Tempest; King Lear

Tom Hollander excels in Peter Morgan’s incisive oligarch drama; Deborah Warner directs a fine Tempest; and Michelle Terry plays both the Fool and Cordelia to Kathryn Hunter’s Lear

The Guardian - UK

King Lear review – Kathryn Hunter’s frail, fond old ruler almost unbearably affecting

Back in the role she first played in 1997, Hunter uses her extraordinary transformative powers to show us the king as a geriatric child at the head of a disintegrating nation

The Guardian - UK

It’s time for the Royal Shakespeare Company to be led by an actor

Gregory Doran has achieved much at the RSC and directed some fine productions. Let’s have an actor in charge next: how about Adjoa Andoh or Simon Russell Beale?

The Guardian - UK

From The Merchant of Venice to Romeo and Juliet, how do we make Shakespeare less terrible in the 21st century?

Is it time to put The Merchant of Venice to bed? A new production at Shakespeare’s Globe is attempting to re-frame it instead

Evening Standard

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