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The Book of Will review – friends fight to save Shakespeare’s plays

Fearing the playwright’s works will be lost to history, former colleagues enact a rescue plan in Lauren Gunderson’s generous-hearted comedy

The Guardian - UK · May 3, 2023

‘Some Like It Hot’ musical leads Tony Award nominations with 13 nods

Sean Hayes received a best actor nomination for his work in “Good Night, Oscar,” which had its world premiere at the Goodman Theatre last year.

Chicago Sun-Times · May 2, 2023

‘It’s Shakespeare – as important as any modern piece of work’: Derek Jarman’s Blue comes to the stage

Russell Tovey, Simon Fisher Turner, Travis Alabanza and Neil Bartlett are teaming up to reimagine the director’s final film – a narrated meditation over a static blue screen – as a ‘thank you’ to the LGBTQ+ hero

The Guardian - UK · May 2, 2023

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The big idea: what if censoring books only makes them more popular?

From Lady Chatterley’s Lover to novels about trans children, attempts to suppress works of literature tend to have the opposite effect

The Guardian - UK · May 1, 2023

Kenneth Branagh returns to stage after eight years to play King Lear

Production will run for just 50 shows in West End this winter

The Independent UK · Apr 28, 2023

Author hails Baillie Gifford winner of winners prize as ‘crowning achievement’

James Shapiro said it was ‘incredibly rewarding’ to have written a book that ‘stands the test of time’ after claiming the prestigious accolade.

The Independent UK · Apr 27, 2023

Shakespeare story wins nonfiction 'winner of winners' prize

An account of a pivotal year for English history and literature has been named the greatest-ever winner of the U.K.’s leading nonfiction book prize

The Independent UK · Apr 27, 2023

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Book about Shakespeare’s pivotal year named Baillie Gifford winner of winners

The annual literary prize is marking its 25th anniversary by selecting the best of its 24 previous winners.

The Independent UK · Apr 27, 2023

Harry Potter star coming to Liverpool this year in new show

The show will be performed in a warehouse in four cities

Liverpool Echo · Apr 27, 2023

Ralph Fiennes and Indira Varma to star in Macbeth staged in warehouses

The production, directed by Simon Godwin, will open in Liverpool before heading to Edinburgh, London and Washington DC

The Guardian - UK · Apr 27, 2023

Ralph Fiennes to play Macbeth in tour of converted warehouses

He will be reunited with Indira Varma, who will play Lady Macbeth.

The Independent UK · Apr 27, 2023

Around 1600, speeches in English plays suddenly got shorter – and no one knows why

A speech in a play by Shakespeare or one of his contemporaries can be as short as a word or as long as several hundred, or anything in between. But what is the most common length?

The Conversation · Apr 27, 2023

Adjoa Andoh on Richard III, Bridgerton and why she’s offended by colourblind casting

The actress and director brings her new take on the vilified king to the Rose Theatre

Evening Standard · Apr 25, 2023

Two theatres, both alike in historical importance

Letters: Rupert Gavin and Austen Lynch on the Theatre (1576) and the Curtain theatre (1577), which hosted the earliest performances of William Shakespeare’s plays

The Guardian - UK · Apr 23, 2023

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The Guardian - UK · Apr 23, 2023

Gregory Doran: ‘Shakespeare defines things when you can’t’

As the RSC’s artistic director steps down after 35 years and 50 shows, he talks about the productions he’s most proud of, his new memoir, and the loss of his husband, the actor Antony Sher

The Guardian - UK · Apr 23, 2023

‘My eyes filled with tears, my voice shook’: Simon Callow on coming face to face with Shakespeare’s First Folio

As the Swan of Avon celebrates his birthday on Sunday, the actor pays tribute to a ‘miraculous’ book that rescued plays such as The Tempest and Macbeth from oblivion

The Guardian - UK · Apr 19, 2023

London museum to use AI to let visitors walk on Shakespeare’s early stage

Museum of Shakespeare in Shoreditch to open in 2024 on site of playhouse that staged earliest performances

The Independent UK · Apr 19, 2023

Museum of Shakespeare exploring London’s first theatreland announced

The museum promises to transport visitors into the culture of Elizabethan London and the life, inspirations and creative process of Shakespeare.

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The Guardian - UK · Apr 16, 2023

The week in theatre: Hamnet; You Bury Me; Pussycat in Memory of Darkness – review

Shakespeare’s wife moves centre stage in Lolita Chakrabarti’s pivotal adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s Hamnet, while urgent productions from two small London theatres tackle recent history head on

Evening Standard · Apr 14, 2023

Iftar at Shakespeare’s Globe is a reminder of England’s forgotten relationship with Islam

After Elizabeth I was excommunicated she began to build links with the Islamic world, which is reflected in some of Shakespeare’s plays

The Independent UK · Apr 13, 2023

Colman Domingo wants theater like 'Fat Ham' to happen more

Colman Domingo believes in paying it forward, literally, so he joined the producer team of the Broadway play, “Fat Ham.”

The Guardian - US · Apr 13, 2023

Fat Ham review – Pulitzer-winning Hamlet revision hits Broadway

James Ijames’s electrifying take on Shakespeare’s classic, with a Black queer man at its centre, makes for a smart update

The Guardian - UK · Apr 12, 2023

‘Explicitly queer and trans’: the 1580s play that inspired Shakespeare’s cross-dressing love plots

John Lyly’s long-forgotten Galatea – featuring gods, mortals and a highly elastic approach to gender and sex – is being revived at the Brighton festival. We meet the team behind it

Liverpool Echo · Apr 12, 2023

Richard III in Liverpool is perfect even if you don't like Shakespeare

Bridgerton's Adjoa Andoh directs and takes the lead role in the production

TechRadar · Apr 11, 2023

The ChatGPT homework dam has burst, let's teach students to build a raft

Instead of encouraging cheating, AI writing tools could be used to achieve a higher level of learning in classrooms.

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