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4.48 Psychosis at the Royal Court Theatre review: a hard, harsh watch illuminated by flashes of poetic clarity

3/5 Sarah Kane’s final work condenses her vision into something untouchable and implacable

Evening Standard

My cultural awakening: a shock at a Shakespeare production made me quit the bank for theatre

Seeing the RSC’s breathtaking 1978 production of The Taming of the Shrew showed how a working-class boy like me could get into theatre

The Guardian - UK

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

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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

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)

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

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

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‘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

‘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

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

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

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

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

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

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Evening Standard

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

The Guardian - UK

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

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 Guardian - UK

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

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The Guardian - UK

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

Roger Harcourt obituary

Other lives: Headteacher who transformed the lives of his Hertfordshire comprehensive pupils with summer Shakespeare camps

The Texas Tribune

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

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

‘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

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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

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

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