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In 1890, one man released 60 birds in New York Central park. 135 years later, there are 200 million of them across America

How 60 birds became 200 million starlings: European starlings, numbering 200 million, trace their lineage to a 1890 Manhattan release. Eugene Schieffelin introduced sixty birds, which then multiplied rapidly across the continent. These adaptable birds outcompete native species and cause significant agricultural damage annually. The popular Shakespeare myth surrounding their…

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In 1890, Eugene Schieffelin released European starlings in Central Park; within 69 years, their descendants had reached the Pacific

Eugene Schieffelin released European starlings in Central Park in 1890. These birds spread across the continent within sixty-nine years. Starlings are adaptable and not picky eaters, which aided their rapid proliferation. This successful introduction now causes eight hundred million dollars in annual agricultural damage. The starling's story serves as a…

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In 1890, European starlings introduced in New York’s Central Park began a spread that eventually produced about 150 million birds across North America

A small experiment in New York's Central Park initiated a major biological invasion. European starlings rapidly spread across North America after their 1890 introduction. These adaptable birds now number around 150 million across the continent. Their presence causes significant agricultural losses and displaces native species. This event serves as a…

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'This is a terrible story!' - Dame Judi Dench confesses to shocking prank on her neighbour

The epitome of elegance now, Judi admits to some rather un-dame-like behaviour in a hilarious confession

Woman & Home

Mona’s new library is spectacular. But does it work as a library?

What do our bookshelves say about us? Which of our books do we choose to display and why? And what happens to a private collection when it becomes a public exhibit?

The Conversation

‘I just knew it would sound incredible!’: why the Globe is giving Shakespeare some flamenco fire

Love’s Labour’s Lost offers a heady mix of passion and death – which makes the Spanish art form a perfect match, says director Indiana Lown-Collins. Our writer joins the theatre’s flamenco bootcamp

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Love’s Labour’s Lost / Much Ado About Nothing review – breezy double bill brings out the best in both

Elegantly stitching the plays into two parts of the same continuing story, Tom Littler’s sunny al fresco productions play every possible tragicomic note

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Lear review – this matriarchal monarch’s tragedy is personal not political

Maureen Beattie leads a modern-dress version, which focuses on family dynamics rather than the decline of Shakespeare’s mighty ruler

The Guardian - UK

Susanna Clarke: ‘I had been ill for 11 years. I felt like I was about to fall off the world’

One hundred years after Virginia Woolf explored the limitations of language in On Being Ill, the Piranesi author reflects on the power of storytelling to shape our experience of sickness

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Bard in the Botanics celebrates 25th birthday with a Scottish summer of Shakespeare

SUMMER in Glasgow is incomplete without Bard in the Botanics. Celebrating its 25th anniversary, the Bard team have programmed a “Lovers and…

The National (Scotland)

Star hopes audience will be ‘transformed’ by black lesbian adaption of Othello

Sharon D Clarke has been cast in the title role in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s production of Shakespeare’s tragedy.

Evening Standard

Michael Byrne obituary

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

The Guardian - UK

‘A privilege – and pretty terrifying’: James Norton to play Hamlet in the West End

The Happy Valley actor is lined up as the lead in German director Thomas Ostermeier’s first Shakespearean play in English

The Guardian - UK

Happy Valley star James Norton to play Hamlet in new West End production

The 40-year-old will take on the role in autumn next year.

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Venus & Adonis review – Simon Russell Beale narrates cheeky tale of puppet passion

Greg Doran directs Shakespeare’s timeless poem of seduction, told with Lyndie Wright’s gorgeous, masterfully manoeuvred miniatures

Evening Standard

Much Ado About Nothing at Shakespeare’s Globe review: Deliciously detailed take on Shakespeare’s summer comedy

4/5 There’s newfound depth and heaps of humour in Chelsea Walker’s stylish new staging of the beloved Shakespeare play

The Guardian - UK

Sam Dastor obituary

Other lives: Actor who performed with Olivier’s National Theatre company and became a familiar face on British TV

The Guardian - UK

Much Ado About Nothing review – a riot of romcom energy

With its gorgeous music, dance and costumes, this production is a sure summer blockbuster that avoids the problematic elements of Shakespeare’s play

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Maureen Beattie looks to the future with her take on Lear

FOR Scottish theatre doyenne Maureen Beattie, it makes perfect sense for King Lear to be played by a woman – even if it could have Shakespeare…

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Teen pop star show Mackenzie a 'theatre gateway drug'

A Y2K-era adaptation of Shakespeare's Scottish play sees Macbeth recast as an ambitious teen starlet, and Lady Macbeth as a stop-at-nothing stage mum.

The Guardian - UK

Death in Venice: Willem Dafoe thrills theatre biennale with adventurous shows about ghosts and rebirth

From a Noh Othello that puts Desdemona centre stage to a requiem for a family killed in the Rwandan genocide, the theatre at this year’s festival gives voice to the marginalised

The Conversation

What if Macbeth was a 13-year-old child star? Shakespeare meets stage mums and sparkles in riotous adaptation

When Bell Shakespeare’s Mackenzie begins, it is with the clap of thunder and flash of lightning you might expect from any adaptation of Macbeth. And yet, what follows is no ordinary production of the much beloved Scottish play.

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Helen Mirren takes pride in King's birthday honour

The Academy Award-winning actress, 80, was recognised in the King's Birthday Honours for her services to drama.

Evening Standard

Dame Helen Mirren ‘incredibly proud’ after being made Companion of Honour

The Academy Award-winning actress, 80, was recognised in the King’s Birthday Honours for her services to drama.

MusicRadar

“Playing with your fingers has something to do with immediacy and soul. You’re absolutely in touch with what’s going on”: How Mark Knopfler combined sublime fingerpicking and Shakespearean tragedy in a Dire Straits classic

The early ’80s hit featured his iconic National Style O resonator guitar

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