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‘I’m an actor, not a mouthpiece’: Bridgerton’s Jonathan Bailey on fame and the pressure to speak out

Bridgerton, then Wicked, gave Jonathan Bailey a huge fanbase, but the responsibility on the actor to use his platform is intense

The Guardian - UK

NYT Connections today hints and answers — Thursday, February 13 (#613)

Get today's NYT Connections clues and answers for today's puzzle #613 on February 13.

Tom’s Guide

How the pollution of today will become the ‘technofossils’ of the far future

How might you make your mark on the world forever? Write a play more timeless than Shakespeare, or compose music to out-do Mozart, or score the winning goal in the next World Cup final, perhaps?

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Do goblin dice math, slap your D&D players with severed troll limbs, and take revenge on Shakespeare in this year's wonderfully weird ZineQuest RPG kickstarters

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PC Gamer

Scottish museum marks first year with exhibition on origins of Macbeth

One year after opening, Perth Museum is to host an exhibition exploring the origins, myths and legacy of Shakespeare’s King Macbeth.

The National (Scotland)

ChatGPT, can you write my new novel for me? Och aye, ye preenin’ Sassenach

Let’s see if AI can take the faff – the actual writing bit – out of penning a Shakespearean thriller with a Scottish villain

The Guardian - UK

“Never Spoke That Word Again”: 58 Parents Who Really Went Out Of The Box With Their Punishments

Someone asked “What is the strangest punishment your parents ever gave you?” and now-adults shared their best examples. The post “Never Spoke That Word Again”: 58 Parents Who Really Went Out Of The Box With Their Punishments first appeared on Bored Panda.

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Groundbreaking exhibition blends Shakespeare and AI in ‘collaboration between the living and dead’

The innovative installation promises to be a ‘collaboration between creative entities: living, dead, organic and computational’

The Independent UK

Toxic male Trojans? Troilus and Cressida leads Shakespeare's Globe summer season

Director Owen Horsley talks to us about his production of Troilus and Cressida as the Globe unveils its summer line-up

Evening Standard

Why Trump’s rage defies historical and literary comparisons, according to a classics expert

The Greek divinity Nemesis, rarely depicted in art, has no place in the Olympian pantheon of a dozen gods and goddesses. But she’s an omnipresent force of retribution, an implacable force of punishment that arrives, if not sooner, then later.

The Conversation

This ain’t America’s trash, it’s Shakespeare’s

Letters: Mark Lewinski-Grende and Austen Lynch on the American English that started off over here, not over there

The Guardian - UK

The week in theatre: Inside No 9: Stage/Fright; Cymbeline – review

Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith turn into their own live tribute act; plus, a bold attempt to make sense of Shakespeare’s wayward late tragicomedy

The Guardian - UK

Play On! at the Lyric Hammersmith review: Twelfth Night relocated to Harlem's Cotton Club

4/5 This sassy musical sets Shakespeare to the music of Duke Ellington

Evening Standard

Hayley Atwell on theatre, Tom Cruise and the tabloids: ‘I’ve reached the point where I’m OK if I’m not liked’

From shooting guns in Mission: Impossible films to appearing in a new West End production of Shakespeare, the actor has proved there’s nothing she can’t do. But, she says, there are now a few things she won’t

The Guardian - UK

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Lonely bats, naming spats and advice for Liz Truss – take the Thursday quiz

Questions on general knowledge and topical trivia, plus a few jokes, every Thursday. How will you fare?

The Conversation

Women have finally achieved parity on VCE English reading lists, but there are fewer classics

What makes something worthy of study and inclusion on a school’s text list? Is it right to remove or add a literary work based on the attributes of the person who wrote it?

The Guardian - UK

RSC goes for Hamlet hat-trick with production of Fat Ham

James Ijames’s Pulitzer-winning play will be part of new season alongside adaptation of Roald Dahl’s The BFG

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Sigourney Weaver's West End performance hijacked by Just Stop Oil protesters

Two people have been arrested after storming the stage during Sigourney Weaver's 'The Tempest' play.

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‘We were booed. I felt proud’: Daniel Evans on his rollercoaster journey to RSC supremo

The joint RSC boss is on unstoppable form, making a blistering return to the stage with a 4:48 Psychosis performed in the small hours – and an Edward II that will be a ‘screw you’ to his school bullies

The Guardian - UK

Christopher Benjamin obituary

Veteran stage, radio and TV actor whose many notable Shakespearean roles included Falstaff and Bottom

The Guardian - UK

The week in theatre: Play On!; A Good House; Moby Dick – review

The spirit of Duke Ellington pulses through a glorious musical spin on Twelfth Night; neighbourliness has its limits in Amy Jephta’s South African satire; and puppets have a whale of a time with Herman Melville

Fortune

Professors teaching Gen Z say they're more anxious than millennials and have already given up on the American Dream

Gen Z really are different from their millennial predecessors professors say. But employers are party to blame for their lack of pizzazz.

Evening Standard

Cymbeline at Sam Wanamaker Playhouse review: a bold and vivid version of a Shakespeare deep cut

4/5 This production of this late Shakespeare romance blends comedy, horror and absurdity to vivid effect

The Guardian - UK

Play On! review – a warm, elegant comedy that brings 1940s swing to Shakespeare

Twelfth Night is relocated to the Cotton Club in this sparkling musical, which luxuriates in its musicality and movement

Inverse

Grand Theft Auto's Biggest Release in 2025 May Have Already Come Out

This GTA Hamlet that you speak of... what is it? The strange new documentary finds the intersection between Shakespeare and video games.

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