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OPINION - Tom Holland's silence over the racist abuse of his co-star Francesca Amewudah-Rivers is a very bad look

Rarely is there a silver lining when it comes to racism. This is true in the case of the despicable barrage of abuse against actress Francesca Amewudah-Rivers, cast as Juliet alongside Tom Holland’s Romeo in an upcoming West End production of Shakespeare’s most famous play. But if there is one…

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Can you solve it? Art thou smarter than Shakespeare?

Don’t make this a comedy of errors

The Guardian - US

"I don't know if what I'm about to do has significance or whether I'm about to make an idiot of myself": William Shatner, progressive rock icon

Everyone's favourite nonagenarian starship captain continues to boldly go where no man has gone before

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‘Too much to bear’: Black actors condemn racial abuse of Romeo & Juliet star

More than 800 performers signed a letter after Francesca Amewudah-Rivers was targeted with online abuse

The Guardian - UK

Meet the Canberran stealing the show as 'rock star' Romeo

Wherefore art thou Romeo? On stage, in & Juliet.

The Canberra Times

OPINION - The racist hounding of Francesca Amewudah-Rivers for her Romeo & Juliet role is painfully stupid

The best revenge is success. So news that Jamie Lloyd’s staging of Romeo & Juliet with Tom Holland has apparently secured a Broadway transfer before it’s even opened in London feels like a victory. Last week the show’s producers were compelled to issue a statement deploring the “barrage of deplorable…

Evening Standard

Actor Luke Thompson: ‘It turned out the coughing was someone vomiting in the dress circle – over other people’

The Bridgerton star on making his RSC debut, extreme audience reactions to A Little Life, and why people love romance

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‘Expect more from me’: actor Francesca Mills on Shakespeare and shifting expectations

The rising star of stage and screen talks bullies, ballet and what playing a 17th-century duchess taught her about life today

The Guardian - UK

Romeo & Juliet theatre star suffers ‘barrage’ of online racial abuse

Jamie Lloyd Company says abuse came after cast list made public for show with Tom Holland and Francesca Amewudah-Rivers

The Guardian - UK

Why I live in Shepherd's Bush: artist Henry Hudson on warming to his west London 'marriage of convenience'

Artist Henry Hudson swapped east for west last year. Here are his Shepherd’s Bush hits, from that dystopian roundabout to ‘middle-aged’ Shakespeare in the park

Evening Standard

25 of the best poetry books to read in 2025

Delve into the hypnotic world of lyrical literature

Evening Standard

‘Don’t come if you are worried’: former RSC boss says he hates trigger warnings for plays

Gregory Doran asks how content warnings could be issued for Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus

The Guardian - UK

Practice by Rosalind Brown review – tea, yoga and sonnets

The minutiae of a day in the life of a mostly happy student are brilliantly conveyed in this wryly comic debut

The Guardian - UK

Theatre for kids: the best shows to see this Easter from Paddington in Concert to The Everywhere Bear

Looking for some exciting ways to fill the bank holiday? From musical adaptations of best-selling children’s books, to thoughtful takes on Shakespeare, London is packed with children’s shows

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The Guardian - UK

M Emmet Walsh obituary

Prolific and compelling character actor known for his roles in films such as Blood Simple and Blade Runner, and dozens of TV series

The Guardian - UK

Romeo and Juliet review – a fiery-footed, stunt-riding thriller

Freestyling cyclists serve around the cast in Lucy Cuthbertson’s shrewd production aimed at younger audiences

The Guardian - UK

‘It’s a beehive’: Tero Saarinen’s mighty Macbeth puts Helsinki’s first dance house on the map

As he stages Shakespeare’s bracing tragedy with a cast who share the main role, the choreographer and his company’s managing director Iiris Autio discuss the upswing in Finnish dance

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The hottest London theatre tickets to book right now from Slave Play to Opening Night

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Macbeth (An Undoing) at the Rose Theatre review: the sound and fury drowns out its flashes of inspiration

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5 best movies like 'Anyone But You' to watch right now

More movies like the surprise smash hit romantic comedy to watch, including "The Proposal" and "Much Ado About Nothing"

The Guardian - UK

Romeo and Juliet review – beatboxing lovers in full flow

A hip-hop take on the tragedy finds the feud blowing up on social media and the balcony scene remixed for FaceTime but it lacks pathos

Evening Standard

Laverne Cox commits blunder on Oscars red carpet as she hands microphone to deaf actress Marlee Matlin

Cox was hosting E!’s red carpet coverage

Evening Standard

Oscars 2024: Al Pacino makes huge blunder while announcing best picture winner

Social media users could not get their heads around the gaffe, saying it ‘couldn’t have been more chaotic or confusing’

The Canberra Times

Ralph Heimans on painting the Queen, Kevin Rudd, Judi Dench and more

See the exhibition at Canberra's National Portrait Gallery.

The Guardian - US

Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal to lead Othello on Broadway

Stage and screen actors will take on the roles of Othello and Iago in Shakespeare’s tragedy, first Broadway staging since 1982

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