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Who Becomes King After Harald V? Norway's Royal Succession Explained Following His Death

King Harald V of Norway has died at 89, with Crown Prince Haakon succeeding him. Princess Ingrid Alexandra becomes the new heir, marking a generational shift in the Norwegian monarchy.

International Business Times UK

Sheila Ballantine obituary

Actor with a long career that included Joe Orton’s Loot, an Alan Ayckbourn trilogy and seasons at the Old Vic and the National

The Guardian - UK

Tom Chadbon obituary

Versatile actor whose career spanned The Liver Birds, Doctor Who and an Edward Bond season at the Royal Court theatre

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Seeing double? Don’t worry, you’re just in Twinsburg, Ohio at the right time of year

‘It's my Disneyland,’ says Jaquada Royal, from Ohio, who attends the festival with her identical twin, Laquala Royal, almost every year

The Independent UK

Peter Gill obituary

Acclaimed playwright and director whose reputation was forged at the Royal Court theatre in London

The Guardian - UK

Michael Byrne obituary

Character actor whose decades-long career encompassed the National Theatre, war films and Coronation Street

The Guardian - UK

Krapp’s Last Tape review: Gary Oldman is sublime

4/5 Gary Oldman brings his Beckett show to the Royal Court for a commanding display

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Between the River and the Sea review: The personal can't help but become political

3/5 At the Royal Court, Palestinian actor and Israeli citizen Yousel Sweid’s autobiographical stand-up theatre indirectly approaches the Gaza crisis via his divorce

Evening Standard

John Proctor is the Villain at the Royal Court Theatre review: terrifically provocative

4/5 This riposte to Arthur Miller’s The Crucible deftly examines the way women and girls are manipulated and gaslit

Evening Standard

‘It shook the plaster off the ceiling’: Self Esteem and David Hare on reviving rock romp Teeth ’n’ Smiles

It lit up the 1970s with its nihilistic tale of a hippie band imploding in a trail of drugs, booze and violence. What can it tell us about the music business today? Writer David Hare and wild-child rocker Self Esteem plug in

The Guardian - UK

The S***heads, review – Violent Stone Age cannibals are brought to life with a sly modern twist

3/5 The Royal Court’s new play is a thought-provoking piece of provocation

The Independent UK

Think panto season is behind you? Oh no it isn’t – some haven’t even opened yet

A trip to the pantomime is a Christmas tradition but they also lift the January gloom and run later in the year

The Guardian - UK

Brian Cox on Tom Stoppard’s sensational Rock’n’Roll: ‘I looked through the curtain and saw Mick Jagger and Václav Havel’

The actor, who starred as a Marxist academic in the acclaimed 2006 play at the Royal Court, remembers an astonishing writer of ideas and elegance

The Guardian - UK

Tilda Swinton and Gary Oldman set for Royal Court's 70th anniversary season

The Royal Court’s big celebratory year in 2026 features a host of top talent and rising stars

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Tilda Swinton and Gary Oldman return to stage for Royal Court’s 70th anniversary

Tilda Swinton’s performance marks 30 years since audiences last saw her tread the boards, meanwhile Gary Oldman will be in Krapp’s Last Tape

Evening Standard

Sir Gary Oldman and Tilda Swinton part of Royal Court’s 70th anniversary season

Sir Gary will star in and direct Samuel Beckett play Krapp’s Last Tape.

The Guardian - UK

‘We spent a week on the cow birth!’ The eye-opening play about animals with sound effects instead of words

Cow | Deer gets ‘between the ears’ of animals, creating mouse noises with polystyrene balls and comparing wild creatures with industrialised ones. So if there’s no dialogue, what did its writer do? Director Katie Mitchell reveals all

The Guardian - UK

Robert Wilson obituary

Performance artist, set designer and director who created haunting, sometimes plotless tableaux to great effect

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‘It was a buddy movie – and then they kissed’: Stephen Frears and Hanif Kureishi on My Beautiful Laundrette at 40

We meet the director and writer of the classic gay romance for tea, cake and bubbles to talk about the movie that changed cinema – and the lives of everyone involved

The Guardian - UK

The Legend of Rooney’s Ring: Wayne and Coleen get their very own summer panto

How has Motherland writer Helen Serafinowicz followed up her TV hits? With a rollicking, sub-Game of Thrones epic based on a Liverpudlian legend. Will the happy couple go and see it?

The Guardian - UK

Pioneering London playwright decried gentrification of ‘writer’s paradise’

In 1992 letter, Mustapha Matura warned of risk to Ladbroke Grove, home to strong Caribbean creative community

Evening Standard

4.48 Psychosis at the Royal Court Theatre review: a hard, harsh watch illuminated by flashes of poetic clarity

3/5 Sarah Kane’s final work condenses her vision into something untouchable and implacable

The Guardian - UK

Dominic Cooke appointed as the Almeida theatre’s artistic director

Cooke, who ran the Royal Court for several years, will succeed Rupert Goold at the illustrious London venue in 2026

The Guardian - UK

Barbara Ferris obituary

Actor who began her career in ‘dolly bird’ roles and became the star of plays by Edward Bond and David Hare

The Independent UK

Jack O’Connell recalls being ‘daunted’ by Michael Caine spitting experience

‘It was totally mind blowing,’ actor said

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