Labour plans risk excluding disabled people from workforce, say arts leaders National Theatre and RSC directors among signatories to letter decrying proposed changes to Access to Work scheme The Guardian - UK · Jun 4, 2025
Food Festivals, World-Class Burlesque and Cosy Cellar Wine Bars – Here Are 9 Things Not To Miss This June From new date night spots to unmissable shows Marie Claire · Jun 4, 2025
Sam Heughan to play Macbeth in Royal Shakespeare Company debut Outlander star Sam Heughan is to play Macbeth in his debut with the Royal Shakespeare Company The National (Scotland) · Jun 3, 2025
Adrian Lester and Alfred Enoch lead Royal Shakespeare Company’s ‘global’ new season Joint artistic directors Daniel Evans and Tamara Harvey say 2025/26 programme is celebration of ‘a 21st-century RSC’ The Guardian - UK · Jun 3, 2025
Outlander’s Sam Heughan to play Macbeth in Royal Shakespeare Company debut The British theatre company has announced a new raft of programming. Evening Standard · Jun 3, 2025
‘A steamy wrestle’: Guardian article inspires play on Shakespeare and Marlowe collaboration Exclusive: Born With Teeth by Liz Duffy Adams, coming to West End, imagines rival dramatists working together The Guardian - UK · May 26, 2025
‘Shakespeare would be writing for games today’: Cannes’ first video game Lili is a retelling of Macbeth Translocating the Scottish play to Iran with help from the RSC, iNK Stories’ version focuses on a Lady Macbeth contending with an oppressive surveillance state The Guardian - UK · May 22, 2025
Government ‘could miss chance to tackle chemical pollutants from wastewater’ The Royal Society of Chemistry is calling on the UK to introduce a ‘polluter pays’ principle for industries producing harmful contaminants. The Independent UK · May 19, 2025
Hamlet Hail to the Thief at Aviva Studios Manchester review: Radiohead plus Shakespeare? Yes please 4/5 These two very different works have been fused into an urgent, frantic 100-minute work that’s part drama, part dance piece and part gig Evening Standard · May 8, 2025
Jamie Cullum to compose music for RSC’s The Constant Wife starring Rose Leslie The musician is to debut as a theatre composer for W Somerset Maugham’s 1926 comedy adapted by Laura Wade and directed by Tamara Harvey The Guardian - UK · May 6, 2025
Arts Council England a victim of ‘London-centric’ media coverage, CEO says Darren Henley says regional arts leaders do not have same newspaper coverage as those in the capital The Guardian - UK · Apr 21, 2025
Sally Phillips and her family look back: ‘I wanted to be the kind of actress who plays Juliet at the RSC, but it turns out people don’t take me seriously’ The comic, her brother and her mum and dad on a nomadic childhood, not doing a PhD in spaghetti westerns, and taking the plunge as an actor The Guardian - UK · Apr 19, 2025
The real story behind Ncuti Gatwa’s ‘dark, sexy’ Shakespeare play: Were The Bard and Marlowe lovers or rivals? As Born With Teeth brings a ‘ferociously sexy’ take on literature’s greatest mystery to the West End, we separate the tantalising facts from wild fiction Evening Standard · Apr 11, 2025
Clive Revill obituary Superb stage actor who lent power to British TV productions of the 1970s and made a string of enjoyable movies The Guardian - UK · Apr 4, 2025
The Guardian - UK · Apr 3, 2025 Lee Montague obituary Actor who toured with Laurence Olivier and Peter Brook, starred on Broadway and had a long career in film and TV
The Times of India · Mar 24, 2025 Minakshi stuns World champion Nitu Ghanghas in National Boxing Championship quarterfinals All India Police boxer Minakshi secured a big win against world champion Nitu Ghanghas of Haryana in the 48kg quarterfinals of the 8th Elite Women's National Boxing Championship on Monday. The 24-year-old Asian Championships silver medallist dominated the bout to win with a 4-1 split verdict.
The Guardian - UK · Mar 9, 2025 Edward II review – intrigue bows to spectacle in RSC’s tragic game of thrones Daniel Raggett’s hit-and-miss Marlowe production has wonderful moments but errs on the side of excess in its staging of the king’s doomed love affair
The Guardian - UK · Mar 6, 2025 Edward II review – Daniel Evans leads a brooding, brutal and brilliant night at the RSC The new joint boss of the Royal Shakespeare Company makes an impetuous king in Daniel Raggett’s production of Marlowe’s history play
The Guardian - UK · Mar 2, 2025 Roger Harcourt obituary Other lives: Headteacher who transformed the lives of his Hertfordshire comprehensive pupils with summer Shakespeare camps
The Texas Tribune · Feb 25, 2025 U.S. Rep. August Pfluger benefits from fund drive promoting third Trump term A Trump official says the president did not approve the fundraising message connected to the Republican Study Committee.
The Guardian - UK · Feb 19, 2025 Hamlet review – RSC’s bold seaborne concept really pushes the boat out The court of Elsinore becomes a ship of state – or a ship of fools – in Rupert Goold’s production
The Guardian - UK · Feb 16, 2025 ‘I’m an actor, not a mouthpiece’: Bridgerton’s Jonathan Bailey on fame and the pressure to speak out Bridgerton, then Wicked, gave Jonathan Bailey a huge fanbase, but the responsibility on the actor to use his platform is intense
BANG Premier · Feb 10, 2025 Jared Harris annoys his wife by quoting Hamlet Actor Jared Harris has admitted he annoys his wife Allegra Riggio on a regular basis by quoting lines from William Shakespeare's play 'Hamlet' again and again.
The Guardian - UK · Feb 4, 2025 Plays from RSC, National and Almeida theatres in running for Susan Smith Blackburn prize Plays join shortlist for prestigious international award honouring scripts by female, transgender and non-binary playwrights
The Independent UK · Jan 29, 2025 Royal Shakespeare Company excited to stage Roald Dahl’s ‘inspirational’ BFG The stage adaptation by playwright Tom Wells will delight families over the festive period across a 10-week run at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre.