The Latest Breaking News from Shakespeare

GPT-5 has a new informal writing style — can you spot the real text versus the AI?

ChatGPT-5 has become more conversational and personal, making it an ideal writing partner, but harder to detect

Tom’s Guide · Oct 14, 2025

Woody Allen pays lengthy tribute to Diane Keaton

Woody Allen has paid a heartfelt tribute to his late friend and former lover Diane Keaton following her death over the weekend.

BANG Premier · Oct 13, 2025

My Right Foot review – wryly humorous look at life with a terminal illness

Mixing childhood memories, songs and Shakespeare, Michael Patrick delivers a one-man show about the reality of being given four years to live

The Guardian - UK · Oct 10, 2025

The pre-Raphaelite muse who inspired Taylor Swift’s The Fate of Ophelia

As a professor of pre-Raphaelite studies, I was excited to see that the track list for Taylor Swift’s 12th album, The Life of a Showgirl includes a song called The Fate of Ophelia. Ahead of the album’s release, fans and art historians speculated that the inspiration could come from John…

The Conversation · Oct 3, 2025

Romeo a Juliet review – star-crossed lovers divided by language

Theatr Cymru’s bilingual version of Shakespeare’s tragedy brings intriguing complexity to the warring families but also some confusion

The Guardian - UK · Oct 3, 2025

Alistair Petrie on Sex Education and starring in Hamlet: ‘Connor Swindells is like my son. We speak every day’

INTERVIEW: The English actor tells Ellie Harrison about the sliding-doors moment that led to his role in the Netflix teen drama, the long-awaited new season of ‘The Night Manager’, and why he’s finally returning to theatre after a decade away from the stage

The Independent UK · Sep 26, 2025

‘My wife is an exquisite goddess’: Nick Offerman on love, woodwork and storing gravy in his beard

The Parks and Recreation actor answers your questions on being married to Megan Mullally, visiting Manchester and preparing for the apocalypse

The Guardian - UK · Sep 25, 2025

25 Years Later, The Iconic Shakespeare Revenge Epic Gets A Visceral Remix

Riz Ahmed delivers a career-best performance in the visceral crime-thriller remix of Shakespeare's classic tragedy.

Inverse · Sep 23, 2025

A curious incident … dog in Night Watch was a copy by Rembrandt, expert claims

Rijksmuseum says that just like Shakespeare, Rembrandt drew widely and shamelessly from earlier sources

The Guardian - UK · Sep 23, 2025

Can We Stop Killing Each Other? review – a violence-themed show that’s about as dangerous as a garden centre

This exhibition asks whether art can diminish the human capacity for violence – but you might want to throttle someone after seeing this nonsense

The Guardian - UK · Sep 23, 2025