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HISTORICAL FACTS: Ollo - The Untold Story

Jodie Comer, a gen-Z Elle Woods and a giant swimming pool: The best theatre of 2022, ranked

The Independent’s theatre critics have chosen their top stage shows of 2022, a year in which fresh new writing and charming musicals reigned supreme

The Independent UK

Othello at the National Theatre review - Giles Terera shines in this powerful, brutal staging

Almost everything in Clint Dyer’s production is harsh and stark

Evening Standard

‘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

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The Pact cast list in full: Who stars in series 2 of BBC drama?

The Pact returns following a smash-hit first series last year

Wales Online

The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho by Paterson Joseph review – a giant of the Georgian era

Based on a true story, the actor’s debut novel about the first Black man to vote in Britain is illuminating and steeped in compassion

The Guardian - UK

Morning mail: childcare strike, consent warning for films, fears for Australian in Baghdad jail

Wednesday: Tens of thousands of families across the country will be affected by early childhood workers striking for better pay and conditions. Plus: the invention that makes hydrogen from humid air

The Guardian - AU

Shakespeare inspired to write Othello after being booed off stage

The bard learned from his humiliating experiences as an actor at the Globe to hone his playwright skills, academic says

The Guardian - UK

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What links The Lord of the Rings to Lenny Henry and the Beatles?

As Middle-earth buffs get ready for the new Rings of Power extravaganza, we follow Tolkien down the rabbit hole and find Orson Welles, Michael Gambon and the Fab Four

The Guardian - UK

‘I wish she could have seen the change happening right now’: trailblazing theatre star Pearl Prescod

The actor and campaigner came to Britain from Trinidad and Tobago in 1954 and rose to join Laurence Olivier’s National Theatre company. Clint Dyer and others explain why we should remember her

The Guardian - UK

Lost portrait of black actor and rights campaigner Paul Robeson to go on show

Glyn Philpot’s 1930 painting of actor playing Othello at Savoy one of several portrayals of people of colour in Chichester exhibition

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