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How Giancarlo Stanton's Swing Makes Him the Weirdest Hitter in Baseball

Yankees hitting coach Dillon Lawson helps break down the former MVP’s inconsistent, yet hard-hitting, batting style.

Sports Illustrated

Netflix's Adjoa Andoh explains why blockbuster new show had to come to Liverpool first

The Bridgerton star told the ECHO why the Shakespeare adaptation is a love letter to her Scouse mum

Liverpool Echo

Editorial: Surprise (not)! Trump responds to felony charges with rage and bluster

While we are reluctant to compare Donald Trump to the fictional characters of Shakespeare given the Bard’s skill, subtlety and wit, the ex-president’s rambling Tuesday night seethe-a-thon from the Donald J. Trump Grand Ballroom at Mar-a-Lago had all the elements of King Lear’s Act III rage on the hearth. If…

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Can kids see ‘Mrs. Doubtfire’? How DeSantis’ anti-drag war is affecting the performing arts

MIAMI — Before there was “RuPaul’s Drag Race” and drag brunch in Wynwood, there was Shakespeare.

Miami Herald

Commentary: Our shameful national fatalism on guns

“Murder most foul,” cries the ghost of Hamlet’s father to explain his own killing in Shakespeare’s play.

Tribune News Service

Alison Steadman: ‘We filmed the sex scene in the New Forest, so it was quite prickly’

The actor on working with Dennis Potter, channelling real life in Abigail’s Party and a groundbreaking lesbian snog

The Guardian - UK

Searching for Juliet by Sophie Duncan review – the many faces of a heroine

An engaging guide to Shakespeare’s most famous female role – and how it has been misread and misplayed for centuries

The Guardian - UK

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Leaps of joy

Presented in collaboration with the Tourism Authority of Thailand and B.Grimm, the Royal Bangkok Symphony Orchestra continued their wonderfully varied 2023 concert season at the Thailand Cultural Centre earlier this month with a programme devoted entirely to the incomparable genius of German composer Felix Mendelssohn.

Bangkok Post

The Winter’s Tale review: jarring Shakespeare's Globe production lacks warmth

The Winter’s Tale is one of Shakespeare’s great “hospitality plays” – a tragicomedy about what goes wrong when a guest outstays their welcome.

The Conversation

'Great Expectations' review: A dismal remodel of a Charles Dickens tale

FX, in partnership with the BBC, has made a dreary, dismal and not very Dickensian miniseries out of Charles Dickens' "Great Expectations." And while that seems to be in some measure the point, it is, all the same, dreary and dismal and does not count so much as an adaptation…

Los Angeles Times

Great Expectations Cast: Where You've Seen The Stars Of FX's Charles Dickens-Based TV Show

The Great Expectations cast should make this miniseries adaptation of the Charles Dickens classic worth a look.

Cinemablend

Rare copy of Othello shows a cast list involved in real-life murder drama

A 1655 edition of Shakespeare’s tragedy names members of an acting troupe, one of whom was slain in an eerie echo of the play

The Guardian - UK

Teacher in awe as students gift him 152-page book of 'craziest' things he's ever said

People have been left gobsmacked after a group of students worked together to create what might just be the funniest present ever - as they gifted their teacher a book of his unusual sayings

Daily Mirror

Two sides to a story: why feminist retellings are filling our bookshelves

From Nineteen Eighty-Four’s Julia to Shakespeare’s Rosaline, the trend for a new perspective on a familiar tale is continuing apace. Authors and publishers explain what old stories tell us about today

The Guardian - UK

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Geraldine James cast as Rosalind in RSC production of As You Like It

The 72-year-old actor will play a young woman in the latest example of age-blind casting in a Shakespeare production

Daily Mirror

Erling Haaland knows one record is out of reach - set by striker compared to Shakespeare

Dixie Dean is the Everton forward who scored 60 league goals in the 1927-28 season - and Haaland would have to score a hat-trick in every one of his final 11 top-flight games to beat the record

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GPT-4 shouldn’t worry anybody – we just need to be better

Text generators have been around for years, but they’ve finally gotten good. Where previous iterations required a heavy edit, the latest version of ChatGPT from OpenAI writes with better grammar than I – sorry, me. But both chatbots and generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools like the newly launched GPT-4 also…

Chicago Sun-Times

Shakespeare, Golden Age of Film collide on the outskirts of ‘Comedy of Errors’

Even though we get nearly the full story, “The Comedy of Errors” feels more sampled than fully done.

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Drag queen (and ordained minister) Bella DuBalle won't be silenced by new Tenn. law

DuBalle says the legislators behind a new law criminalizing public drag shows don't understand the art: "They think that every drag performer is doing something hypersexual or obscene."

Evening Standard

OPINION - Budget 2023: better, but still really quite bad

Great art achieves apotheosis in performance. Shakespeare was designed to be seen, not studied. Music to be heard, not read off a sheet. Both spark to life through actors, musicians, directors and conductors to form something more magical than the sum of their parts.

Daily Record

The pretty Scottish town with a distillery named 'most picturesque' for wintry walks

While the recent cold snap has put a halt to traditional spring activities like picnics and garden visits, that shouldn't stop you from heading out and enjoying the beauty of Scotland.

Daily Mirror

Inside Shakespeare castle where tragic woman 'without hands' haunts the passages

Cawdor Castle in Scotland is well known for its connection to the Shakespeare play Macbeth... but for paranormal enthusiasts, it is also haunted by a tragic woman without hands

Daily Record

A Scottish castle linked to Shakespeare is 'haunted' by a tragic woman without hands

If you are a Shakespeare fan, you will likely be aware of the connection between Macbeth and Cawdor Castle, but you may not know that the ghost of a young woman is said to haunt its halls.

Daily Record

The stunning Scottish castle by the sea where a Shakespeare movie was filmed

You may be surprised to learn that a 1990 film based on Shakespeare's Hamlet starring Mel Gibson and Glenn Close actually shot many of its scenes in Scotland despite being set in Denmark.

Wales Online

The full list of BBC colleagues and celebrities supporting Gary Lineker

The broadcaster is reportedly set to make an apology to the presenter

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