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Sigourney Weaver, Tom Hiddleston and Hayley Atwell to star in stellar new Shakespeare season in the West End

The Jamie Lloyd Company announces thrilling season of Shakespeare at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane with a roster of stars

Evening Standard

Ralph Heimans on painting the Queen, Kevin Rudd, Judi Dench and more

See the exhibition at Canberra's National Portrait Gallery.

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'Not what you might expect': Rough magic on Christmas Island

The new play will debut at The Street Theatre on November 10.

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Ian McKellen tells our Theatre Podcast that responses to his ‘gay love story’ Frank & Percy are ‘heartening’

The special episode of the podcast included discussion of audience behaviour, freedom of speech and their new play which opens in London tonight

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Rep. Raskin Likens Political Climate To Shakespeare’s ‘The Tempest’

Raskin draws parallels between current tumultuous landscape and Shakespearean play, emphasizing role of technology.

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Man arrested after hammer attack on Eric Gill statue at BBC’s Broadcasting House

Man in Spider-Man mask scaled London headquarters in apparent protest against paedophile sculptor

The Guardian - UK

Eric Gill was evil. His sculpture at BBC headquarters isn’t

The BBC is right to restore the defaced statue that was created by an artist who sexually abused his daughters. Instead of blaming a piece of inert stone, we should be trying to change the real world

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LPO/Adès review – composer’s finest stage work sea-changes into something rich not strange

Thomas Adès’ Tempest symphony proved a shapely and gorgeous précis of his 2004 opera in a concert conducted by the composer himself

The Guardian - UK

The week in theatre: The Tempest; Linck & Mülhahn; The Lehman Trilogy – review

Alex Kingston’s fine Prospero weathers an RSC concept storm; the 21st century erupts into a tale of 18th century gender subversion; and illusion captivates in a revival of Sam Mendes’s banking saga

The Guardian - UK

We've been editing Shakespeare's plays for 400 years – but does a new Australian production of The Tempest idealise the Bard?

Review: The Tempest, directed by Kip Williams, Sydney Theatre Company.

The Conversation

The Tempest review – Shakespeare gets a radical edit from Sydney Theatre Company

Richard Roxburgh as Prospero and Guy Simon as Caliban are outstanding in Kip Williams’ latest production, which takes a revolutionary approach to the script

The Guardian - AU

‘I’m not saying Shakespeare is an anti-black racist. But …’ – the festival tackling an incendiary issue

They have suffered vicious abuse and ugly trolling, but the team behind the Globe’s Shakespeare and Race festival tell our writer why their work feels more urgent than ever

The Guardian - UK

The week in theatre: Closer, The Tempest, The Darkest Part of the Night – review

Patrick Marber’s four-way passion play still adds up; Sean Holmes takes enjoyable liberties with his party island Tempest; and the heartfelt vies with the spelled out in Zodwa Nyoni’s new work

The Guardian - UK

The Tempest at Shakespeare’s Globe review: Some rough edges but a sunny delight

Even Shakespeare is not immune to the Love Island aesthetic

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The Tempest review – the bard in budgie smugglers

Sean Holmes’s gleefully comic take is a riot of holiday colour and fun, featuring luminous lilos, stag do bantz and a playful Prospero in eyewateringly tight trunks

The Guardian - UK

Patrick Stewart: ‘I’d go straight home and drink until I passed out’

As he beams aboard another Star Trek adventure, the 81-year-old actor talks about playing Picard as an intergalactic Prospero, hitting the bottle during an exhausting Macbeth – and reaching page 310 of his memoir

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