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In 'Ibelin,' 'Grand Theft Hamlet,' video game realms draw filmmakers with virtual cameras

A handful of new films don’t just deal with video games, they’re set inside them

The Independent UK · Oct 29, 2024

In 'Ibelin' and 'Grand Theft Hamlet,' video game realms draw filmmakers with virtual cameras

A handful of new films don’t just deal with video games, they’re set inside them

The Independent UK · Oct 29, 2024

NYT Connections today hints and answers — Tuesday, October 29 (#506)

Get today's NYT Connections hints and answers for today's puzzle #506 on October 29.

Tom’s Guide · Oct 28, 2024

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An Acclaimed Canadian Playwright Faces Questions of Pretendianism

Jani Lauzon has maintained she is Métis and her play 1939—now touring Canada—is based on her father’s experience at a residential school. What if none of it is true?

The Walrus · Oct 28, 2024

‘You get more confident as the parts run out’: Harriet Walter on her stage career, Succession and Shakespeare’s women

In her new book the acclaimed actor imagines what the Bard’s female characters might have said if they had had the chance

The Guardian - UK · Oct 27, 2024

David Oyelowo: ‘Like a lot of immigrants, my dad was all about work, work, work’

THE SATURDAY INTERVIEW: The Golden Globe-winning actor and star of ‘Selma’ is currently tearing up the National Theatre stage in ‘Coriolanus’. But it’s a rare trip back home for the British-Nigerian actor who made his name in ‘Spooks’ but was forced moved to America in 2007 because of his struggle…

The Independent UK · Oct 26, 2024

Tommy Dorfman’s Return to Acting Is Anything But Tragic

The actress makes her Broadway debut in 'Romeo + Juliet' playing two distinct characters, but for Dorfman, the roles are a manifestation of her own coming-of-age.

Marie Claire · Oct 25, 2024

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Romeo + Juliet review – maximalist Broadway reinvention goes too far

West Side Story’s Rachel Zegler and Heartstopper’s Kit Connor lift an aggressively poppy new youth take on the tragic romance

The Guardian - US · Oct 25, 2024

As more Americans go ‘no contact’ with their parents, they live out a dilemma at the heart of Shakespeare’s ‘King Lear’

Is blood thicker than water? Should family always come first?

The Conversation · Oct 23, 2024

She Speaks! by Harriet Walter review – new words for Shakespeare’s women

An actor’s collection of supplementary speeches for Shakespeare’s female characters offers fresh insights into his work

The Guardian - UK · Oct 23, 2024

Could we all be as positive as Chris Hoy facing death? Perhaps knowing when we will go changes everything

As Hoy has said, there is agony in trying to predict the future. Medical advances mean we might be able to navigate an awful diagnosis with some certainty, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

The Guardian - UK · Oct 21, 2024

Sonny Boy: A Memoir by Al Pacino review – a South Bronx miracle

For all his on-set stories of The Godfather, the Oscar-winning actor’s account of his rise to fame is at its most compelling depicting his hardscrabble formative years

The Guardian - UK · Oct 20, 2024

In brief: Powsels and Thrums; By Any Other Name; The Politics of Time – review

An evocative collection of writings from the great Alan Garner; a frenetic tale of literary misogyny featuring Shakespeare’s ‘Dark Lady’; and a progressive new way to look at work and time

The Guardian - UK · Oct 20, 2024

A Grand Theft Auto movie is coming and it already has 95% on Rotten Tomatoes

The Grand Theft Hamlet movie is coming to UK cinemas – here's when.

T3 · Oct 18, 2024

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Bored Panda · Oct 18, 2024

This IG Page Shares Funny Literary Memes, And Here Are 97 To Make The Biggest Book Nerds Laugh

If you like the smell of new and old books and the sound of pages turning, this list might be just for you! The post This IG Page Shares Funny Literary Memes, And Here Are 97 To Make The Biggest Book Nerds Laugh first appeared on Bored Panda.

Wallpaper · Oct 17, 2024

The Museum of Shakespeare set to open in east London

The Museum of Shakespeare puts the remains of the ancient Curtain Playhouse at the centre of 'The Stage', a new urban development in the heart of Shoreditch

Evening Standard · Oct 15, 2024

Grand Theft Hamlet review: a hilarious and moving treat about staging Shakespeare in the notoriously violent video game

When two jobless actors got together to put on Hamlet entirely within the world of Grand Theft Auto, the result is murderously funny

The Guardian - UK · Oct 12, 2024

Helen Castor: ‘I’d rather not live in such interesting times’

The British historian on the drama and resonance of the lives of Richard II and Henry VI, the writers she most admires and the book she wishes she had written

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The Guardian - UK · Oct 11, 2024

‘It’s a tragedy because everyone dies – not because he’s disabled’: the creatives casting Richard III in a new light

The Lyric theatre Belfast’s new take on Richard III is produced by, and stars, disabled people. But bringing fresh authenticity to Shakespeare’s storied tragedy was not without its challenges

Bored Panda · Oct 11, 2024

Mom Is Corrected On How To Pronounce Her Daughter’s Name, Tells Person They Ruined Her Life

"What's in a name?" Shakespeare asked in Romeo and Juliet. "That which we call a rose by any other name would smell just as sweet." Well, maybe that works for roses, but not so much for people. The post Mom Is Corrected On How To Pronounce Her Daughter’s Name, Tells…

Salon · Oct 8, 2024

Let's get real about censorship

In "The Cancel Culture Panic," Adrian Daub shows how a phony panic created the pretext for real book-banning

The Guardian - UK · Oct 7, 2024

How the excavation of Shakespeare’s Curtain theatre has changed stage history

Recovery of stage foundations, which will be part of new London museum, has changed understanding of theatre development

The Guardian - UK · Sep 29, 2024

Baritone Roderick Williams: ‘I once heard a singer at a party say: “No peanuts. I’m singing in three days!”’

The baritone on how he looks after his voice, why he likes to talk to his audience, and playlists for the dying

The Guardian - UK · Sep 29, 2024

Dame Maggie Smith: ‘the complete actor’

The former cabaret star, who died on Friday aged 89, dazzled in everything from Shakespeare to Harry Potter

The Conversation · Sep 28, 2024

The problem with new claims that Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus was co-written by a forgotten dramatist

In Shakespeare’s time, about a quarter of all plays were collaboratively written by two or more dramatists. Christopher Marlowe’s classic work Doctor Faustus was first performed in the 1580s or early 1590s but only published in 1604, 11 years after his death. The dramatists Samuel Rowley and William Bird were…

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