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The Guardian view on rewriting classics: what the Dickens?

Editorial: Retellings of novels like Huckleberry Finn and David Copperfield help to keep the canon alive

The Guardian - UK · Dec 30, 2024

Sigourney Weaver’s Prospero may finally set us free of this celebrity Shakespeare indulgence

Film star’s floundering performance in The Tempest exposes flaw in theatreland’s reliance on big names

The Guardian - UK · Dec 29, 2024

Olivia Hussey, captivating star of Romeo and Juliet, dies aged 73

Actor shot to fame after being cast in Franco Zeffirelli’s 1968 film adaptation of Shakespeare’s play when she was just 15

The Independent UK · Dec 28, 2024

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Arnold Yarrow obituary

EastEnders actor and writer who also enjoyed a fruitful radio and theatre career, latterly with the Royal Shakespeare Company

The Guardian - UK · Dec 27, 2024

‘I was captivated and in awe’: readers’ favourite theatre of 2024

A towering turn from John Lithgow, musicals in Birmingham and Manchester, and Sarah Snook’s one-woman Wilde were among the year’s standout shows

The Guardian - UK · Dec 25, 2024

Performing Hamlet in GTA Online felt like going back in time to the Globe Theatre where 'people would just throw apples at you, or there were prostitutes coming and going,' say award-winning filmmakers

"The theater in Shakespeare's time was like that. It was popular entertainment. It wasn't a dark room where everyone had to be quiet."

PC Gamer · Dec 24, 2024

The week in theatre: The Tempest; Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812; You Me Bum Bum Train – review

Sigourney Weaver’s Prospero is all at sea in Jamie Lloyd’s overblown West End Shakespeare; War and Peace the musical really works; and the immersive theatre sensation is back in town

The Guardian - UK · Dec 22, 2024

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‘It’s like having an affair’: Blackadder, the Beatles, Gavin & Stacey … the chemistry of successful writing duos

The long-awaited return of Ruth Jones and James Corden’s hit BBC sitcom represents the latest in a long line of successful creative duos. An author who writes with her husband examines why partnerships work so well

The Guardian - UK · Dec 22, 2024

Acclaimed Playwright Jani Lauzon Responds to The Walrus’s Investigation into Her Indigenous Ancestry

A cancelled play, a confused response, and more questions

The Walrus · Dec 20, 2024

The Tempest review – Sigourney weaves weird magic in West End debut

Inspired by the famous filmography of its Prospero, Jamie Lloyd’s production is audaciously odd – a sci-fi Shakespeare, or gestural Greek theatre in outer space

The Guardian - UK · Dec 19, 2024

The Eagle and the Hart by Helen Castor review – the tragic lives of Richard II and Henry IV

A rich and vivid history of the Plantagenet cousins and rivals for the English throne

The Guardian - UK · Dec 19, 2024

Twelfth Night review – Samuel West achieves greatness as Malvolio

As the petty tyrant cruelly duped by his household West leads a superb, tinsel-inflected take on Shakespeare’s melancholy comedy

The Guardian - UK · Dec 16, 2024

Daniel Craig’s turn as queer writer and an ‘unfilmable’ book brought to life – what you should watch, read and see this week

William S. Burroughs was a gay drug addict. A knot of contradictions, he was also deeply homophobic, sexist, racist and a gun-loving conservative, a passion that would eventually lead to him to be convicted of manslaughter. Needless to say, his life was as wild as his fiction – just watch…

The Conversation · Dec 13, 2024

David Tennant forced off stage as theatregoer sparks chaos during West End Macbeth performance

The incident took place at the Harold Pinter Theatre on Tuesday after an audience member was unable to immediately return to his seat following a toilet break

Evening Standard · Dec 12, 2024

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Wallpaper · Dec 12, 2024

Is it really possible to stage a Shakespeare play inside the game Grand Theft Auto?

Grand Theft Hamlet, a documentary debut written and directed by Pinny Grylls and Sam Crane, is about two out-of-work actors attempting to mount a full production of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, inside the violent world of Grand Theft Auto, shot entirely in game

The Guardian - UK · Dec 11, 2024

‘They wouldn’t do this to Shakespeare’: the pioneers of postmodern architecture, as seen by their son

Jim Venturi’s new film follows his parents Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown, bringing scrappy wit and colour to chilly modernism as they battle the establishment and wind-up traditionalists at the National Gallery

The Guardian - US · Dec 10, 2024

‘How many dead Palestinians are enough?’ The unbearable prescience of the late poet Refaat Alareer

The author and academic was killed in an Israeli airstrike a year ago. A posthumous collection of his work, If I Must Die, tells the stories of Gaza in a plea for change

The Conversation · Dec 9, 2024

Grand Theft Hamlet documentary shines a light on reinventing Shakespeare in a virtual world

The new documentary Grand Theft Hamlet marks a groundbreaking moment in the world of digital performance. It tells the story of an innovative theatrical production of Hamlet, staged within the popular video game Grand Theft Auto (GTA), which began as an accidental, creative response to the lockdown period. With theatres…

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Bored Panda · Dec 9, 2024

20 Questions About Shakespeare That Will Really Challenge Your Literature Knowledge

This is not your typical Shakespeare trivia. Get ready to struggle to remember Shakespeare’s plays that did not get as much screen (or stage) time as Romeo & Juliet, Othello, or Macbeth have gotten. You might know a lot of things about the popular plays of Shakespeare which are also…

inkl · Dec 9, 2024

What is Odessa, TX Known For? 5 Things You Didn't Know

Odessa, TX, might not always be in the spotlight like Austin or Dallas, but this West Texas city holds its own unique charm. Known for its rich oil heritage, high school football culture, and vibrant cowboy spirit, Odessa is a city with a lot more to offer than meets the…

The Guardian - UK · Dec 7, 2024

‘I feel I’ve upset a few people over the years’: actor Brian Cox on overrated co-stars, charmless politicians and the joy of smoking weed

He’s famed for grumpy roles and outspoken views, but don’t be fooled – the Succession star is a pussycat at heart. He talks about growing up in poverty, falling in love with his wife – and out of love with Labour

The Conversation · Dec 6, 2024

What it’s really like to be ‘rescued’ from modern slavery

When someone is in trouble, the hope is that they will be rescued. From Shakespeare to Superheroes, the story has been the same for centuries.

The Independent UK · Dec 6, 2024

The people who put on a production of Hamlet… inside Grand Theft Auto

IN FOCUS: During the pandemic, two out-of-work actors decided to mount a Shakespeare adaptation within the blocky, sun-kissed world of ‘Grand Theft Auto’. Now their unexpectedly touching story has been brought to life in a new documentary, writes Greg Evans

The Guardian - UK · Dec 6, 2024

Grand Theft Hamlet review – in-game Shakespeare performance is brilliantly exciting

In a hilarious and surreal documentary, two out-of-work actors decide to stage the tragedy within Los Santos with dreamlike and fascinating results

Total Film · Dec 4, 2024

We got Hamlet in Grand Theft Auto before GTA 6 – and it's one of the most important video game movies ever made

Grand Theft Hamlet's documentary filmmakers talk dying during filming and why GTA Online is the perfect place for Shakespeare

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