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‘I’m no white man in a toga’: Thalissa Teixeira on having a stab at Brutus

The actor, better known as a TV cop, is portraying Julius Caesar’s assassin in a first for the RSC. She reveals why she’s been studying revolutionaries, from Mexican Zapatistas to Welsh nationalists

The Guardian - UK · Mar 13, 2023

A new start after 60: acting was my teenage dream – now I’m at the National Theatre

Duncan Hess grew up wanting to be an actor, instead becoming a successful director at the BBC. Now he has returned to his first love, and is already walking in the footsteps of the greats

The Guardian - UK · Mar 13, 2023

In Britain, ‘Warm Hubs’ Emerge to Beat Soaring Energy Costs

On a blustery late-winter day in Shakespeare’s birthplace, the foyer of the Other Place theater is a cozy refuge.

Asharq Al-Awsat · Mar 4, 2023

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 · Feb 12, 2023

The Tempest review – Alex Kingston is a magnificent Prospero

Climate catastrophe and power struggles dominate Elizabeth Freestone’s RSC interpretation of Shakespeare’s play

The Guardian - UK · Feb 3, 2023

Biden, McCarthy make ‘no promises’ on debt, will keep talking

WASHINGTON — House Speaker Kevin McCarthy left a White House meeting with President Joe Biden on Wednesday afternoon saying they had a “good conversation,” but made “no agreements, no promises” in regard to the debt limit.

Tribune News Service · Feb 2, 2023

Biden, McCarthy make 'no promises' on debt, will keep talking - Roll Call

McCarthy left a meeting with Biden saying they had a “good conversation,” but made “no agreements, no promises” in regard to the debt limit.

Roll Call · Feb 1, 2023

GOPers plot to hike retirement age to 70

"Medicare and Social Security are non-negotiable," responded Democratic Rep. Mark Pocan

Salon · Jan 25, 2023

BP sponsorship of Royal Opera House ends after 33 years

Move leaves British Museum and Science Museum isolated as arts institutions with fossil fuel sponsors

The Guardian - UK · Jan 25, 2023

Jenkin van Zyl on his death-defying art: ‘Setting myself on fire was idiotic. But the shot is amazing’

He makes films filled with gore, monsters and bizarre fetishes and looks like Mr Tumnus at a techno club. Could this prosthetics-wearing, jockstrap-clad raver be the UK’s most exciting new artist?

The Guardian - UK · Jan 23, 2023