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Macbeth review – a terrifying lock-in with bloodied, boozed-up gangsters

Daniel Raggett’s audacious RSC production sets the play in a Glaswegian pub full of thugs and has a Landlady Macbeth running the show

The Guardian - UK

Microphones are weakening actors’ voices

Letters:Eugene O’Hare reflects on the increasingly ubiquitous use of microphones on stage

The Guardian - UK

Scrooge gets a hip-hop spin and the RSC does the BFG: 20 of the best UK stage shows this Christmas

From musical versions of Pinocchio, Treasure Island and Sherlock Holmes to a comedy about banana-loving beach-dwellers … dive into our selection box of festive theatre

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Actors trained during pandemic lack vocal power and range, says RSC leader

Daniel Evans says young drama graduates who learned voice work online missed out on the physical presence of theatre training

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John Woodvine obituary

Actor who played senior police officers on TV and delighted critics with his Falstaff for the English Shakespeare Company

The Guardian - UK

Ian Judge obituary

Theatre and opera director whose work stretched from Gilbert and Sullivan to Shakespeare

The Guardian - UK

More than half of RSC staff urged to apply for voluntary redundancy

Arts institution seeks to make ‘urgent’ savings as it is thought to be facing a shortfall of between £5m and £6m

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‘The storm for Lear is inside him’: Crossing choppy seas to bring Shakespeare to Isles of Scilly

RSC touring troupe stage King Lear in a school hall on St Mary’s before continuing to the Isle of Wight

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Voices: Why Kenneth Branagh’s return to Stratford-upon-Avon is the best thing to happen to my hometown in years

COMMENT: Kenneth Branagh coming to the RSC for the first time in more than three decades could be just what my failing hometown needs to stop its decline, says Georgina Fuller

The Independent UK

Sir Kenneth Branagh: We have to work harder to earn the audience’s attention

The Oppenheimer star made his first appearance with the Royal Shakespeare Company aged 23 in the 1984 production of Henry V.

Evening Standard

Kenneth Branagh returns to the RSC for The Tempest and The Cherry Orchard

Next summer, the star will appear in Stratford-upon-Avon first as Prospero and then alongside Helen Hunt in Chekhov’s classic

The Guardian - UK

Kenneth Branagh returns to Royal Shakespeare Company for first time in 30 years

Sir Kenneth, best known for Belfast and Hamlet, made his first appearance with the theatre company aged 23 in the 1984 production of Henry V.

Evening Standard

Jared Harris: ‘Dad knocked out an Irishman then brought him round by throwing Guinness in his face’

Ahead of his new film Brave the Dark, the star of Mad Men and The Terror (and the son of Richard Harris) answers your questions about his favourite pub, feeling seasick in Hamlet and playing John Lennon

The Guardian - UK

The Two Gentlemen of Verona review – less smut, more mutt in RSC’s delightful dog day afternoon

Lossi the lurcher is the only cast member not playing an instrument in this summer production aimed at younger audiences

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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

The Guardian - UK

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

Marie Claire

Food Festivals, World-Class Burlesque and Cosy Cellar Wine Bars – Here Are 9 Things Not To Miss This June

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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 Guardian - UK

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’

Evening Standard

Outlander’s Sam Heughan to play Macbeth in Royal Shakespeare Company debut

The British theatre company has announced a new raft of programming.

The Guardian - UK

‘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 Independent 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.

Evening Standard

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

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