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Merseyside’s new Shakespeare theatre opens by celebrating builders and footballers

Local heroes including screenwriter Jimmy McGovern and comedian Johnny Vegas will take stage at Shakespeare North Playhouse this summer

The Guardian - UK

£30m Shakespeare North Playhouse supported by Johnny Vegas to open in Prescot

Johnny Vegas said: 'Let's make it up north, let's do it up north, let’s have some faith in us up north'

Liverpool Echo

Why weren't women allowed to act in Shakespeare's plays?

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Much like the city he comes from, chef Marco Avesani's cooking is a labour of love. Born and raised in Verona, the city famous for being the setting of the greatest love story in English literature, Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet, chef Avesani is the new face of La Bottega di…

Bangkok Post

Star Trek star in Newcastle 40 years ago - when Picard was still in the distant future

In March 1982, a time long before his television adventures is deepest space, the actor Patrick Stewart was in Newcastle with the Royal Shakespeare Company

Chronicle Live

‘Experience Shakespeare by seeing it – even better, be in it’: inside the RSC’s new epic

Owen Horsley’s new production of Henry VI, Parts 2 and 3, uses a cast of 120, including professionals and community participants, with some of them filming the action on stage

The Guardian - UK

Macbeth review – an excess of sound and fury

Efforts to make Shakespeare accessible to all rub against confused staging and wayward delivery in Amy Leach’s ambitious production

The Guardian - UK

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Denzel Washington tackles Shakespeare and life's fourth quarter with grace

LOS ANGELES — Denzel Washington and I have been talking for a good, long stretch on a recent late Friday afternoon, discussing life's fourth quarter, the September of our years, when, pretty much out of nowhere, he starts singing Neil Young's "Southern Man."

Los Angeles Times

Ukraine war: Zelensky echoes Churchill in historic address to Parliament in appeal for more support from UK

The Ukrainian president used language similar to the British war leader and quoted from Shakespeare during his speech

Evening Standard

Zelensky gives Churchillian address to MPs as UK announces Russian oil ban

The Ukrainian president used language similar to the British war leader and quoted from Shakespeare during his address.

The Independent UK

The week in theatre: Henry V; Our Generation – review

Kit Harington’s a natural as Shakespeare’s military monarch, while Alecky Blythe’s long-awaited new verbatim play captures five years of teenage introspection

The Guardian - UK

Macbeth review – a wicked thriller this way comes

With striking stage design and compelling leads, Amy Leach directs a triumphant version of Shakespeare’s tale of murderous deeds

The Guardian - UK

David Tennant's wife wooed Doctor Who actor by watching him in Hamlet 27 times

Actress Georgia Tennant has lifted the lid on how she first wooed her now husband, Doctor Who star David Tennant, after going to see him in Hamlet 27 times

Daily Mirror

Things to do in London this weekend (March 4-6)

From ball pits and burlesque to a boozed-up Shakespeare

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The Merchant of Venice review – heart-wrenching revenge remix

Abigail Graham trims and reshuffles Shakespeare’s play with glitzy gameshow scenes and a brutal, lonely reckoning

The Independent UK

Patrick Stewart says during year-long Macbeth run he would ‘go straight home and drink alcohol until he passed out’

Actor confesses he had ‘difficult patches’ when he was playing Shakespeare’s Scottish general

Chicago Sun-Times

Barbara Gaines exiting Chicago Shakespeare Theater post

“My mission over these many years has been to fill the world with the humanity of Shakespeare — a writer who understands the immediacy of being human,” Gaines said.

The Guardian - UK

The King William’s College quiz 2021 – the answers

Just after Christmas, we published the Isle of Man school’s 117th fiendish general knowledge paper. Did you dare to try it? Here are the answers

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Daily Mirror

Conor McGregor told his latest boast is "some f****** Shakespeare s***"

Former two-weight champion McGregor said that he has the best ground and pound in the UFC and Sean O'Malley has since reacted to the bold claim

The Guardian - UK

Dennis Lee obituary

Other lives: Proud Yorkshireman and constant reader on engineering, fly fishing and Shakespeare

The Guardian - UK

Kit Harington on Henry V and life after Jon Snow: ‘We need to start dealing with male anger’

As the Game of Thrones star swaps furs for modern dress to play Shakespeare’s monarch, he reflects on what the play tells us about masculinity, and how it addresses the issues that drove his struggle with addiction

Evening Standard

From The Merchant of Venice to Romeo and Juliet, how do we make Shakespeare less terrible in the 21st century?

Is it time to put The Merchant of Venice to bed? A new production at Shakespeare’s Globe is attempting to re-frame it instead

Liverpool Echo

Shakespeare show coming to garden theatre with picnics and prosecco

The theatre event takes place this summer

The Guardian - UK

As You Like It review – Northern Broadsides stage a dreamy quest

Laurie Sansom’s languid production of Shakespeare’s pastoral comedy is all about appearances

The Independent UK

Royal Shakespeare Company partners with TikTok to inspire new audiences

The theatre company has announced its plans for the year ahead, including the collaboration and three new Shakespearean productions.

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