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King Lear review – Yaël Farber’s modern-dress take is shockingly vicious and supremely moving

The set is a marvel, the performances are electric and the ending – with Lear raging and trembling in a hospital gown on the heath – is profoundly tragic

The Guardian - UK

King Lear and Barbie are stepping out in the capital

Faure's Requiem and a Dan Sultan gig are also on.

The Canberra Times

Headaches at Fox as Lachlan Murdoch takes reins from father Rupert

Tycoon’s eldest son promises ‘no change’ in Fox News strategy but suite of legal claims threaten to derail family empire

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Acrobats, throat singing and Shakespeare: welcome to the Mongol Khan, London's wildest new theatre production

This is the first time a Mongolian play has ever been exported outside of the country

Evening Standard

A plague on both their houses? Politicos grapple with 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's First Folio

William Shakespeare’s works are not short of insight on the perils of power and “vaulting ambition”. Some are dramatically relevant to this era of war and ceaseless tension, from Richard III to Julius Caesar and King Lear.

Evening Standard

OK, Kenneth Branagh isn’t great as King Lear – but have you seen his abs?

From Daniel Radcliffe to Paul Mescal, a star name will fill theatres. And if most of the audience aren’t there for the acting, that’s not always a bad thing

The Guardian - UK

The week in theatre: King Lear; Lyonesse; Pied Piper – review

Kenneth Branagh savours Lear’s words rather too much; Kristin Scott Thomas and co are left high and dry in Cornwall; but at BAC, a beatbox Pied Piper you would follow anywhere…

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King Lear at the Wyndham’s Theatre review: Kenneth Branagh's radical, youthful Lear tugs at the soul

Though his take on 'the actor's Everest' initially fails to ignite, in the final third Branagh's performance is truly moving

Evening Standard

I’m Sorry, Prime Minister, I Can’t Quite Remember: Hacker and Sir Humphrey’s last hurrah

Jonathan Lynn’s new play finds the political double act in their 80s, in a suitable final chapter to a magnificent comic project

The Guardian - UK

Sir Michael Gambon obituary

Versatile actor with a magnificent presence who starred in The Singing Detective and the Harry Potter films

The Guardian - UK

Is King Lear a mountain or molehill? How to play the tragic monarch and ‘stupid old fart’

Paul Scofield, Ian McKellen and Glenda Jackson have all redefined Shakespeare’s unpredictable ruler – a role in which actors usually succeed

The Guardian - UK

Bell chimes in with a Succession plan fit for a king

Bell Shakespeare is staging its first production of the Bard's classic play King Lear in 13 years, as part of its 2024 season.

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In memory of Glenda Jackson: ‘She touched something central about what it means to be alive’

Two people who watched the actor and Labour politician closely remember the desire to get to the truth that made her so powerful on stage, screen and in parliament

The Guardian - UK

Glenda Jackson was piercingly intelligent and unafraid to take risks

The actor and former MP, who has died aged 87, displayed courage and a sharp mind, on stage and in politics

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Glenda Jackson, fearless actor and politician, dies aged 87

Her singular passion lit up performances from Women in Love to King Lear and drove her 23-year middle career as an MP

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Readers reply: if Shakespeare wrote for the masses, why is his work now an intellectual preserve?

The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical concepts

Woman & Home

Succession series finale recap: how did the hit HBO show end? What happened to Kendall, Roman and Shiv?

Succession has come to an end after four seasons, and we know the fate of the Roy siblings…

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Sigourney Weaver Explains Why She Went Back To King Lear While Working On Her Master Gardener Character

Sigourney Weaver explains how King Lear helped her work on her character for the Master Gardener.

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Evening Standard

Blow winds and crack your cheeks: Kenneth Branagh to play King Lear in the West End

It will mark the actor and director’s first stage role since The Winter’s Tale in 2015

The Guardian - UK

Kenneth Branagh to direct and star in King Lear in London and New York

The play, which the actor has described as being pertinent to our ‘savage and judgmental’ political climate, will run for 50 performances in the West End before transferring to the US

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Overkill's Bobby 'Blitz' Ellsworth: My life in 10 songs

The 10 songs that defined Bobby 'Blitz' Ellsworth's career, from helping define East Coast thrash with Overkill to surviving grunge and still going strong 40+ years on

Evening Standard

‘It begins to feel like a freak show’: the disturbing truth of watching A Little Life as a gay man

The suffering is on an operatic scale in this adaptation of Hanya Yanagihara’s Booker-nominated novel — but to what end, asks Jason Okundaye

The Conversation

Can you extract a pound of flesh without blood? How the power struggles in Shakespearean drama speak to an age of decolonisation

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders are advised that this article names and quotes a deceased person.

The Guardian - UK

Fathers and daughters: what’s the truth behind this unexplored family bond?

Research suggests fathers of girls have more empathy for women. But as King Lear and new movie Aftersun show, there are plenty of challenges along the way

The Conversation

Four of Shakespeare's plays and how they speak to the current political situation in Britain

The last few years in politics have gifted the keen observer many allusions to some of Shakespeare’s best-loved works. From the Midsummer Night’s (fever) Dream the electorate might think they are experiencing while looking on at parliament to All’s Well That Ends Well (or is it?).

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