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Equus review: A fine revival of a deeply odd but significant play

4/5 A forceful revival of Peter Shaffer’s strange play at the Menier Chocolate Factory with a standout lead performance

Evening Standard

Equus review – desire and desperation in Peter Shaffer’s tale of sex, gods and horses

Lindsay Posner’s precise revival flies highest in its most intense moments of beastliness as a psychiatrist sets about ridding a teenage boy of his demons

The Guardian - UK

Black Sails is leaving Netflix this week — but you can stream the greatest pirate TV show of all time somewhere else for free

It almost goes without saying that Black Sails is the best pirate TV show of all time. But while it's leaving Netflix, you can still stream it for free.

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TV Spy — Black Sails, DTF St. Louis, and all the US dramas you can watch on UK services: February 28 - March 6

There are loads of great US dramas you can watch in the UK this week.

WhatToWatch

Wendy & Peter Pan at the Barbican review: 'heavy stuff but lightly done'

4/5 Ella Hickson’s adaptation sees the Royal Shakespeare Company explore sibling death and queer subtext alongside the pirates and crocodiles

Evening Standard

A Cruel Love: from Toby Jones to Lucy Boynton, who plays who in the Ruth Ellis drama?

The show tells the tragic story of the last woman in the UK to be hanged for murder

Evening Standard

Toby Stephens shares details of mother Maggie Smith’s final moments

‘Downton Abbey’ star died in September last year aged 89

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BBC's The Split: Barcelona – from Nicola Walker to Toby Stephens, who’s who in the cast?

The Sterns are back, and divorce is on the menu once more

Evening Standard

The Split: Barcelona review – there are moments that are just ludicrously sexy

This sharp, witty Catalan spinoff of the BBC divorce lawyer series sees Nicola Walker’s Hannah on stunning form – with moments of frisson guaranteed to raise temperatures

The Guardian - UK

Stars Nicola Walker, Toby Stephens and Stephen Mangan on The Split: Barcelona and finding love in middle age

Yolanthe Fawehinmi chats to Abi Morgan, Nicola Walker, Toby Stephens and Stephen Mangan about legal dramas and what viewers love about the show.

The Independent UK

Queen Camilla praises 'legend' Dame Maggie Smith

Queen Camilla paid tribute to late actress Dame Maggie Smith and hailed her a "legend".

BANG Premier

The Split: Barcelona — how to watch, recaps, cast, plot and everything we know

The Split: Barcelona reunites us with our favourite family of formidable lawyers.

WhatToWatch

King leads tributes to 'national treasure' Dame Maggie Smith after death aged 89

King among those paying tribute to acting legend Dame Maggie Smith after death aged 89

Evening Standard

Dame Maggie Smith's Final Curtain: Net Worth, Family And Everything Else You Need To Know About Her

Dame Maggie Smith, the legendary actress known for her roles in Downton Abbey, Harry Potter, and The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, passed away at 89, leaving behind a remarkable seven-decade career.

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'True National Treasure' Maggie Smith Dies Aged 89

Oscar-winning British actor Maggie Smith, a star of stage and screen for more than seven decades, died in hospital in London on Friday, her sons announced, prompting a flood of tributes.

International Business Times

Maggie Smith, British Theatre And Cinema Legend Dies At 89

Maggie Smith, who died on Friday, was an Oscar-winning legend of stage and screen, renowned for playing wide repertoire of characters during a decades-spanning career and personifying a particular kind of English eccentricity.

The Guardian - UK

Maggie Smith: the magisterial star of Harry Potter and Downton had the courage and talent to do absolutely everything

The real-life dame and on-screen dowager countess, who has died aged 89, earned fame in her 70s and 80s for blockbuster roles. But her early work at the National Theatre marked her out as a talent for the ages

The Independent UK

Dame Maggie Smith: Oscar-winning Harry Potter and Downton Abbey star dies, aged 89

Giant of stage and screen was one of Britain’s most successul stars

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The Split to return for a two-part wedding special — but who is getting married?

BBC announces the return of Abi Morgan's hit legal drama, The Split, for a two-part special set in Barcelona.

WhatToWatch

Percy Jackson & The Olympians cast: who's who

Who's in the Percy Jackson & The Olympians cast? Meet the stars of Disney's YA fantasy adaptation of Rick Riordan's stories of the Greek gods.

The Guardian - UK

Dodger review – this hilarious Dickens prequel is an utter treat

Nicola Coughlan! Lennie Rush! Paul Whitehouse! This festive special of the Christopher Eccleston-fronted show is a supremely funny, star-packed delight

WhatToWatch

EXCLUSIVE: Dodger star Billy Jenkins: ‘The festive special is life and death stuff!’

Dodger — the comic caper returns for a Christmas instalment with a royal flavour.

The Guardian - UK

Sir Michael Boyd obituary

Acclaimed artistic director of the Royal Shakespeare Company who oversaw a transformation of its fortunes

The Guardian - UK

The week in TV: DI Ray; The Staircase; The Dry; Prisoner C33

Parminder Nagra’s spirited DI battles a thicket of social issues; a raked-over US murder is overplayed as drama; and drink addiction fuels a sharp new Irish dramedy

The Guardian - UK

Prisoner C33 review – Trevor Nunn directs a wretched, wonderful Wilde

In this dark, poetic one-man play, Toby Stephens gives it his all as the wrecked writer – imprisoned for gay sex in 1895 – as he rues his misfortunes with his younger self

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