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O’Romeo review – Bollywood Shakespeare takes dive into grisly mafia queens territory

After hit takes on Macbeth, Othello and Hamlet, Vishal Bhardwaj’s Romeo and Juliet adaptation sees dead-eyed lovers drag one another to gutter and grave

The Guardian - UK

Renowned Shakespearean actor voices doubts over Oscar frontrunner Hamnet

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Shakespeare expert Ian McKellen brands Hamnet ‘improbable’ fiction: ‘I don’t quite get it’

‘I’m not very interested in trying to work out where Shakespeare’s imagination came from, but it certainly didn’t just come from family life,’ the British thespian said

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‘Hamlet’ Review: A Smart Adaptation That Sparks but Doesn’t Catch

South Asians love adding a bit of subcontinental flavor to everything. It’s mostly food and drink we do this to, like mixing baked beans with diced onions and cumin seeds, or spicing tea with cinnamon and fennel and cardamom. But now Academy Award winner Riz Ahmed has injected some spice…

The Mary Sue

Is this love? Don’t be Heathcliff and Cathy – what you should watch, read and play this week

Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights is a loose (very loose) adaptation of Emily Brontë’s novel. The film is, as the director has attested, the intense, “unhinged”, gothic story she remembers reading as a 14-year-old. As such, it is full of imagined passages and heightened romance and violence. It’s truly Fennellian in…

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The iconic British Pullman just unveiled a new Baz Luhrmann-designed events space on board

Luhrmann, who worked in collaboration with costume and production designer Catherine Martin, took inspiration from the British countryside and Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream for the interiors.

Euronews

Chanakya Niti: 5 Traits of a Woman No Man Can Forget or Replace

Let’s start with a moment of silence. For the version of you who: Checked his “last seen” like it was a weather update. Replayed a 3-word text 19 times. Sent “?” because he didn’t reply in 27 minutes. Started planning wedding hashtags because he said “you’re different.” We’ve all been…

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Ian McKellen drops 400-year-old Shakespeare play to address US immigration debate

Actor Ian McKellen performed a Shakespearean monologue on immigration. He linked current events to historical anti-immigrant feelings. McKellen emphasized the humanity of immigrants. Other artists also spoke out against US immigration policies. Bad Bunny and Lady Gaga criticized ICE. McKellen's performance focused attention on immigration struggles.

The Times of India

Don’t betray your own heart: why the world needs grand love stories like “Wuthering Heights”

From Greek tragedy to Emily Brontë, epic romances are part of the human condition – and when imagined as films, we crave them again and again

The Guardian - UK

Riz Ahmed’s British south-Asian Hamlet is a moody tale of grief and shady family business

For Shakespeare’s Hamlet “the world is out of joint”. In screen writer Michael Lesslie’s collage of Shakespeare’s play, directed by Aneil Karia, Riz Ahmed’s intense, grief-wrecked Hamlet pays a high price as he tries to “set it right” in a corrupt corporate world.

The Conversation

Trigger warnings risk ‘mollycoddling’ theatre audiences, says Tony-winning director

Exclusive: John Doyle says theatre should be able to disturb and challenge audiences, and not sanitise difficult themes

The Guardian - UK

All Is But Fantasy review – Lady Macbeth, Juliet and the girls belt out their grumbles as the witches let rip

Whitney White’s thrilling, song-filled show flips Shakespeare’s great characters and asks why we still lap up these tales of sexy men killing sexy women

The Guardian - UK

‘Culture is something that we all share’: Riz Ahmed on his South Asian Hamlet

Ahmed says he hopes this version of Hamlet is accessible to everyone.

Evening Standard

To cry or not to cry: how moving the audience to tears can backfire

“One must have a heart of stone not to read about the death of little Nell without laughing” was Oscar Wilde’s notorious response to the emotional onslaught of Charles Dickens’s 1841 novel, The Old Curiosity Shop. Having watched two films in two weeks about the death of a child, it…

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Evening Standard

One Battle After Another named film of the year by UK Critics’ Circle

Irish star Jessie Buckley scooped actress of the year for her performance in Shakespeare film Hamnet.

The Guardian - UK

The best theatre to stream this month: big and bold Bacchae ushers in new era at the National

Nima Taleghani’s debut play brings a raucous Greek chorus to the Olivier theatre, while Judi Dench has an enchanting Twelfth Night reunion

Total Film

Hamlet stars Riz Ahmed and Morfydd Clark on their "urgent and exciting" Shakespeare adaptation "We brought this visceral first-person energy to it"

Big Screen Spotlight | In a big year for the Bard, the latest adaptation of Hamlet is doing things differently

The Guardian - UK

The Tempest review – Tim Crouch’s high-concept treatment roughs up the magic

Some spells are cast by this production, in which the director plays Prospero, but it also wearingly replays the same tricks

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Evening Standard

The Tempest review: Caliban wears a Gazza shirt in fascinating and fresh take

3/5 Tim Crouch’s take on Shakespeare’s final play doesn’t always come together but is filled with plenty of magical moments

The Guardian - UK

Andrew Jarvis obituary

Other lives: Actor and drama teacher with a particular focus on Shakespeare

The Conversation

Academy Awards 2026: How ‘Hamnet’ will help me lead Shakespeare classes about ‘Hamlet’s’ Ophelia

When I teach Shakespeare’s play, Hamlet, many students love the character Ophelia, and so do I. But the play seems to silence her just when readers need to know more about how she sees the world and her place in it — especially the young women in my classes.

The Guardian - UK

Ryan Coogler’s Sinners has administered an almighty smackdown to critical favourites One Battle and Hamnet

Coogler’s vampire thriller swept the Oscar nominations over Chloé Zhao’s tearjerker and Paul Thomas Anderson’s counterculture thriller. This genre-defying drama about the black experience could now rule awards season

Evening Standard

Jessie Buckley scores Oscar nomination while Sinners makes history with 16 nods

The Irish star is up for the best actress Academy Award for Hamnet.

The Guardian - US

‘The most dangerous man in America’: how Paul Robeson went from Hollywood to blacklist

The groundbreaking singer, actor and athlete became a victim of McCarthyism and saw his shining career destroyed and his legacy tarnished

The Guardian - UK

A new Henry V is a barometer of our times – what can Shakespeare’s war play tell us amid global chaos?

Revivals of this history play usually reflect the politics of the moment. Now a fresh RSC retelling arrives in a world of instability and fractured alliances

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