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Glenda Jackson obituary

Actor who was a fearless, ferocious presence in theatre, cinema and television, then turned to politics as a Labour MP

The Guardian - UK

Black Mirror’s Paapa Essiedu: “Pressure? It doesn’t affect me”

He’s played a hate-filled Hamlet and a traumatised Grindr addict to great acclaim, but the pride of Walthamstow, Paapa Essiedu, tells Jimi Famurewa why Black Mirror is his best job yet

Evening Standard

Conservatives’ budget plan renews battle over seniors’ benefits

WASHINGTON — The largest bloc of House conservatives offered up a fiscal blueprint Wednesday that promises to balance the federal budget in seven years, make GOP tax cuts permanent and slash domestic spending.

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Conservatives' budget plan renews battle over seniors' benefits - Roll Call

The plan would gradually raise the age at which future retirees can start claiming full Social Security benefits from 67 to 69.

Roll Call

Hamilton star Reuben Joseph to play Macbeth for the RSC

The West End actor says the Shakespearean role has ‘the disastrous consequences of ambition’ in common with Lin-Manuel Miranda’s musical

The Guardian - UK

Interim RSC boss proud to have made company inclusive of ‘voices we represent’

Erica Whyman said she cared ‘very passionately’ about having promoted the RSC as a truly national theatre company.

The Independent UK

Cush Jumbo joins David Tennant in the Donmar Warehouse’s Macbeth in autumn 2023

Tennant and Jumbo previously acted together in Channel 4’s Deadwater Fell

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Cymbeline review – Shakespeare’s knotty romance is a fabulous farewell for Doran

Departing artistic director Greg Doran reinvigorates this tale of a royal family in crisis with clarity and intelligence

The Guardian - UK

The Coronation Concert: release date, hosts, acts and everything we know

The Coronation Concert, held on Sunday May 7, promises to be an event fit for a King.

WhatToWatch

Ten years of Rana Plaza: How safe is Bangladesh garment industry?

The nine-storey building collapsed in 2013, killing 1,134 people, in one of the deadliest industrial disasters ever.

Al Jazeera

Gregory Doran: ‘Shakespeare defines things when you can’t’

As the RSC’s artistic director steps down after 35 years and 50 shows, he talks about the productions he’s most proud of, his new memoir, and the loss of his husband, the actor Antony Sher

The Guardian - UK

Hamnet review: ‘beautifully acted’ but doesn’t ‘pierce the heart’

The RSC has reopened its refurbished Swan Theatre with an eagerly anticipated adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s bestselling novel Hamnet, said Sam Marlowe in The Stage. As “snug and supple” a fit for the Stratford stage as one of the bespoke gloves made by William Shakespeare’s bullying father, it imagines the…

The Week

The week in theatre: Hamnet; You Bury Me; Pussycat in Memory of Darkness – review

Shakespeare’s wife moves centre stage in Lolita Chakrabarti’s pivotal adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s Hamnet, while urgent productions from two small London theatres tackle recent history head on

The Guardian - UK

GOP debt limit plans begin to take shape in House - Roll Call

House Republicans are fleshing out the details of a bill that would lift the debt limit through May 2024 in exchange for spending curbs.

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Key House GOP lawmaker urges debt limit vote this month

WASHINGTON — Passing a "strong" debt limit bill should be House Republicans’ top legislative priority in April, Republican Study Committee Chairman Kevin Hern, R-Okla., wrote to colleagues on Wednesday.

Roll Call

Key House GOP lawmaker urges debt limit vote this month - Roll Call

Passing a "strong" debt limit bill should be the top legislative priority in April, a House Republican leader wrote to colleagues Wednesday.

The Guardian - UK

‘They are the crucial buyers’: theatres tap into the power of female readers

The Time Traveler’s Wife and Hamnet are among novels written, and largely read, by women coming to the British stage

WEKU

As debt ceiling talks stall, Speaker McCarthy says GOP may move its own bill

President Biden and Speaker McCarthy continue to spar over the next steps in negotiations on the debt ceiling. The country faces a historic default if no deal is reached before the summer deadline.

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Evening Standard

The RSC’s My Neighbor Totoro set to make triumphant return to the stage after sell out run

The play is currently in the running for nine Olivier Awards

The Guardian - UK

Michael Rudman obituary

Theatre director best known for his three major productions of Death of a Salesman, written by his hero Arthur Miller

Roll Call

Budget blueprint may take a back seat to debt limit in House - Roll Call

House Budget Chairman Jodey C. Arrington said Congress needs to lift the debt ceiling and impose fiscal controls “immediately".

The Guardian - UK

Geraldine James cast as Rosalind in RSC production of As You Like It

The 72-year-old actor will play a young woman in the latest example of age-blind casting in a Shakespeare production

The Times of India

Nitu assures India medal at Women's Boxing World Championships

NEW DELHI: Commonwealth Games champion boxer Nitu Ghanghas (48kg) assured India of its first medal at the ongoing Women's World Championships after reaching the semifinals here on Wednesday.

The Times of India

Preeti scalps top seed Perijoc, joins Nitu, Majnu in World Boxing Championships pre-quarters

NEW DELHI: India’s Preeti made a sensational women’s World Championships debut, defeating the Romanian top seed Lacramioara Perijoc in a see-saw battle in front of a sizeable home crowd to sail into the pre-quarterfinals of the bantamweight category on Saturday.

The Times of India

Nitu, Preeti, Manju enter pre-quarters of Women's World Boxing Championships

NEW DELHI: Indian boxers continued to dominate at home as Nitu Ganghas, Preeti and Manju Bamboriya made it to the pre-quarters after registering contrasting wins at the Women's World Championships on Saturday.

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