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Shows to look out for at this year’s Edinburgh Festivals

THIS year’s Edinburgh Festivals open in the coming days.

The National (Scotland)

Q&A: ‘Barbie’ filmmaker Greta Gerwig on art, commerce and embracing the mess

Barbie, the doll, may be 64 years old, but “Barbie,” the movie, is a pandemic baby

The Independent UK

Alan Steele: 10 things that changed my life

I’ve got five siblings, but, from my teens forward, I didn’t see them or have contact with them for 25 years.

The National (Scotland)

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Jeffrey Carlson, Chicago actor who played trans role on ‘All My Children,’ remembered as ‘stellar’ stage performer

Mr. Carlson, who acted at the Chicago Shakespeare Theater as well as the Goodman, died July 6 at 48.

Chicago Sun-Times

Charles and Camilla treated to Shakespeare performances at Windsor Castle event

Celebrations are being staged this year to mark the 400th anniversary of the first printed edition of Shakespeare’s collection of plays.

The Independent UK

Movie Stars Vs. C-Suite Brass: Hollywood Strike Gets Ugly As CEO Tells A-Listers Where To Go

Barry Dillerthinks big-name actors should do — at least the ones who are clamoring for pay parity in the movie industry

Zenger

Jekyll and Hyde review – Shakespearean style shows another side to Stevenson thriller

Bard in the Botanics stages Robert Louis Stevenson’s gothic novella as a tense three-way struggle that asks big questions about human nature

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British theatre director Tim Crouch is an Englishman in Avignon

Dressed casually in flipflops and a loose white shirt, British theatre director and actor Tim Crouch has a lot to smile about. He has two plays in the Avignon festival this year, the first time he’s ever performed in France. And the French adaptation of one of his plays happens…

Radio France Internationale

The Tempest Re-imagined for Everyone Aged Six and Over review – revels just beginning

Child-friendly adaptation that features an airborne chicken takeaway and Prospero casting spells with an iPad is a lovely introduction to Shakespeare

The Guardian - UK

OPINION - It’s high time we started awarding audiences with their own star ratings

Have you ever died? I have, and it’s not nice. It’s humiliating, shattering, confidence-draining and, yes, painful. Oh, and nobody talks to you afterwards, either. It is very isolating. I really wouldn’t recommend it.

Evening Standard

Napier University offers students a pint and a PhD

Edinburgh institution celebrates its biggest graduation ever with the launch of its own pub

Insider UK

Florida schools remove books by John Milton and Toni Morrison and restrict Shakespeare under DeSantis rules

Over 100 have been removed from school shelves, teacher says

The Independent UK

Richard II in a hot tub, Much Ado done anew: Canada’s Stratford festival puts shocks into Shakespeare

A disco king hits the dancefloor, Beatrice and Benedick’s romcom gets a feminist framing and Lear faces dystopia as the revered rep company returns in full force

The Guardian - UK

The week in theatre: As You Like It; Tambo & Bones; Stumped – review

Seasoned actors turn Shakespeare’s romcom on its head in an enchanted RSC production; US race relations meet Waiting for Godot; and at the crease with Beckett and Pinter

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The National (Scotland)

Hooray for Henry: Underfunded and operating on a shoestring ceases to impress

BARD in the Botanics, the mini-festival of Shakespeare and other classic plays staged in Glasgow’s Botanic Gardens, is a thing of wonder.

The Guardian - UK

Friends, Romans, Mr Speaker: can Shakespeare clean up parliament?

An all-star cast arrived in Westminster on Monday with a potted Julius Caesar, partly in hopes of elevating public discourse. It’s good to have a dream …

The Guardian - UK

As You Like It review – age-blind anti-production pulls the rug on Arden

A bewitching cast cleverly turns Shakespeare into improv comedy in a backstage ‘rehearsal’ of the play, in which age and memory are played for laughs

Liverpool Echo

Coronation Street star is gripping as distinctive King Lear in bold production

Theatre collective Unseemly Women brought King Lear to Prescot's Shakespeare North Playhouse

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Middle-earth Enterprises says MTG Lord of the Rings is a "faithful adaptation," and I couldn't agree more

We go into detail about why this is such a good adaptation of Tolkien's beloved universe.

Liverpool Echo

Outdoor venues across Merseyside to watch shows under the stars

Beautiful outdoor locations where you can be entertained in the open air

The Independent UK

Mark Rylance names his favourite film and Shakespeare role he found ‘most challenging’

He also revealed which famous character he doesn’t think he’ll ‘ever feel ready’ to play

The Guardian - UK

‘Mine’s lobster and champagne’: Judi Dench reveals secret onstage supper at Shakespeare play

The Oscar-winning star discusses her Shakespearean roles and the characters she brought to life in watercolours in her new book

The Guardian - UK

In memory of Glenda Jackson: ‘She touched something central about what it means to be alive’

Two people who watched the actor and Labour politician closely remember the desire to get to the truth that made her so powerful on stage, screen and in parliament

Los Angeles Times

Appreciation: Glenda Jackson, formidable English talent who helped change contemporary acting’s tone

There was never anything shrinking about the confidence Glenda Jackson projected on stage and screen in her heyday. Afflicted with an uncommon common sense, her characters were defined by their sharp intelligence, independence and, yes, irritability. They were nobody’s fool, even when they wound up with the short end of…

The Guardian - UK

Romeo and Juliet review – Rebecca Frecknall’s dance to the death

This innovative, fast-paced production of Shakespeare’s tragedy, starring Toheeb Jimoh and Isis Hainsworth, has a beguiling intensity

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