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Lisa Botterill and Louise Ingram announced as joint heads of Shakespeare Martineau in Leicester

Roy Botterill steps down after a decade in the post but stays on as corporate partner

Birmingham Post

The week in theatre: The Tempest; Linck & Mülhahn; The Lehman Trilogy – review

Alex Kingston’s fine Prospero weathers an RSC concept storm; the 21st century erupts into a tale of 18th century gender subversion; and illusion captivates in a revival of Sam Mendes’s banking saga

The Guardian - UK

Strictly's Giovanni rushes to support Rose Ayling-Ellis after huge career announcement

The Eastenders actress shared news with her Instagram followers

Nottingham Post

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Police investigating after windows of former pub The Shakespeare in Gateshead are smashed

They are believed to have been smashed between 5.30pm on Tuesday and 8am on Wednesday

Chronicle Live

Oregon Shakespeare Festival focuses on expansion – but is not without its critics

After two years of pandemic closures, audiences are back at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, to find a season of diverse plays. But for many, change has come too soon.

WEKU

All’s Well That Ends Well review – problem play gets a tasty Gen Z makeover

Rosie Sheehy dazzles as a woman calling the shots in this feverish production that underlines the play’s curious ambiguities

The Guardian - UK

Man behind Shakespeare North's opening weekend who once fled a Jamaican prison

Ashleigh Nugent turned his life around after a troubled youth in which he was a victim of racism

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The Tempest review – Deborah Warner’s grimy island engrosses and disgusts

Ustinov, BathThe veteran director’s arrestingly visceral production honours the sheer strangeness of Shakespeare’s late play

The Guardian - UK

Liverpool nightclub that 'rose from the ashes' to be burned again

Rich in history, the building suffered a lot of misfortune

Liverpool Echo

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

'This space belongs to the people and it's time to welcome them in': First look inside £38m Shakespeare North Playhouse

The venue is expected to open to the public from July 15

Birmingham Post

Henry VIII at Shakespeare’s Globe review: Messy revisionist take shows why this history play is rarely revived

This is one for Shakespeare completists only

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