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The pub in Wales where people stay the night just to scare themselves

The Skirrid Mountain Inn is synonymous with stories of hauntings and paranormal activity. Owner Geoff Fiddler told us what it's like to own a pub believed to have ghostly residents.

Wales Online

Euphoria review – Cate Blanchett voices a tiger in this visually beautiful takedown of capitalism, but where’s the fury?

Melbourne town hall, Rising festivalJulian Rosefeldt’s magnificent and exhausting film, starring the Oscar winner and Giancarlo Esposito, reverts to evasive surrealist flourishes just as it threatens to become truly angry

The Guardian - AU

‘I want it to feel quite feral’: Rebecca Frecknall on staging Romeo and Juliet

From Cabaret to Streetcar, the West End’s hottest director Rebecca Frecknall has a reputation for finding leads who put bums on seats. ‘I just go on my gut,’ she says

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A Midsummer Night’s Dream review: an ‘assured’ new staging at the Globe

“Many critics sigh at the prospect of yet another ‘Dream’, Shakespeare’s most accessible and most performed play,” said Fiona Mountford in The i Paper. Yet for me the play – a “joyful skip through the Athenian forest, packed as it is with errant lovers, mischievous fairies and some joyously bad…

The Week

Interim RSC boss proud to have made company inclusive of ‘voices we represent’

Erica Whyman said she cared ‘very passionately’ about having promoted the RSC as a truly national theatre company.

The Independent UK

Succession’s brutal finale cemented Shakespearean tragedy as one of this century’s greatest works of art

Jesse Armstrong’s blackly comic drama, which has the most Emmy nominations of any show this year, came to an end in May after four sensational seasons. It wasn’t just a compelling piece of television, writes Louis Chilton – it was a towering artistic achievement

The Independent UK

‘A revelation’: Succession’s Matthew Macfadyen has been a consummate shapeshifter

From HBO’s hit series to Shakespeare, the stage to Spooks, the actor’s global star status has been sealed

The Guardian - UK

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A long and fishy tail: before Disney’s Little Mermaid, these creatures existed in mythologies from around the world

Mermaids are multicultural mythical figures, reflecting the continuing human fascination with the sea in stories echoing thousands of years into the past. Mermaids are found in cultures across the globe.

The Conversation

How will Succession end? What might come of the final 90 minutes

The final episode of Succession is upon us. Questions remain around who will be in control and what the cost will be.

The New Daily

Google Messages AI-powered Magic Compose feature is rolling out now

Magic Compose is available for a certain group of users – but you'll have to send your messages to Google.

TechRadar

Jeopardy! fans are furious that a spelling error cost a 9-time champion’s streak to end

Jeopardy fans are MAD.

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Paul Kelly says poetry is 'thrilling' and, from hip hop to Instagram, there are many ways to embrace it

The beloved Australian musician argues poetry is not something to be afraid of. Rather, Kelly reckons it might change your life.

ABC News

A Midsummer Night's Dream coming to Raheny this summer

The iconic Shakespearean story will be told on one night only this June.

Dublin Live

A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Shakespeare’s Globe review: Elle While’s is a fresh take on the forest romp

I’ve seen this play a hundred times, so it’s always a delight when a production shows it in new light

Evening Standard

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The Guardian - UK

The Comedy of Errors review – full of wit and pizazz

Amped-up visual gags and a cast that brings its own distinctive comic gifts to the Bard’s dialogue ensure a contemporary feel to the classic comedy

Evening Standard

The Comedy of Errors at Shakespeare’s Globe review – daft, bawdy and boisterous with magnificent codpieces

Amid all the nonsense, you find yourself falling for the idiots in one of Shakespeare’s earliest plays

Chronicle Live

Northumberland nature reserve to become theatre for the night as it hosts Battle of the Bard

The Battle of the Bard will take place at Northumberlandia, near Cramlington, on June 11.

Inverse

HBO's Darkest Character Twist of 2023 Was a Long Time Coming

Inverse sat down with 'Barry's Stephen Root to chat about Fuches’ final-season evolutions, his Shakespearean influences, and the long monologues he’ll miss the most.

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The Guardian - UK

Cush Jumbo to join David Tennant in Macbeth at London’s Donmar Warehouse

The actor, who has previously starred as Hamlet at the Young Vic, is to play Lady Macbeth among a wave of star-powered Shakespeare productions this year

The Guardian - UK

Coventry’s Ben Wilson: ‘A rollercoaster? I’ve never been at the top to come back down’

Coventry’s goalkeeper Ben Wilson tells Ben Fisher about local fame, a ‘family’ and hope for an unlikely Premier League future after a club-hopping career

The Week

The Motive and the Cue review: a ‘heartfelt plea’ for the ‘power of theatre’

“There’s been no shortage of stage portrayals of real life VIPs in the past couple of years,” said Clive Davis in The Times. Jack Thorne’s “thoughtful, often wickedly droll” new play, about the relationship between Richard Burton and John Gielgud during rehearsals for a 1964 production of Hamlet on Broadway,…

Edinburgh Live

Performers coming to Edinburgh Fringe open up on disabilities and taking to the stage

Andrew Slade and Lexi Wolfe are heading to the Edinburgh Fringe this year, with their award winning show After Shakespeare - and while it may be their dream, it doesn’t come without struggle.

Daily Mirror

Ex-teacher warns parents of 'worst' things they can do to derail kids' revision

Teenagers across the country will be starting their GCSEs next week and ahead of the exams, a former teacher has shared some of the things parents should avoid doing while their kids revise

The Guardian - UK

The Coronation review – immaculately rehearsed, touching and Shakespearean

A blend of pageantry, procession, music and mystery, with many private moments to savour

The Guardian - UK

Richard Dreyfuss says Oscar diversity rules ‘make me vomit’

Jaws star went on to defend Laurence Olivier’s performance in blackface in the 1965 adaptation of Othello

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