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The Latest Breaking News from the Royal Shakespeare Company

The Crown star Jane Lapotaire dead at 81

Jane Lapotaire - who played Princess Alice of Battenberg in Netflix's The Crown - died aged 81 on March 5.

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A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms casts key roles for season 2

Lucy Boynton, Babou Ceesay, and Peter Mullan join Game of Thrones spinoff

The Independent UK

Game of Thrones prequel to be staged by the Royal Shakespeare Company

‘Game of Thrones: The Mad King’ will premiere at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre this summer

The Independent UK

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Game Of Thrones to be adapted for theatre by Royal Shakespeare Company

The critically acclaimed series will take the stage in Stratford-upon-Avon later this year.

Evening Standard

Andrew Jarvis obituary

Other lives: Actor and drama teacher with a particular focus on Shakespeare

The Guardian - UK

Helen Mirren and Ian Mckellen celebrate launch of RSC Shakespeare curriculum app

The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) unveiled its new digital learning app on Wednesday, 12 November, at Middle Temple, the historic site of the first Twelfth Night performance in 1604.

The Independent UK

Ian McKellen admits he struggles to perform Shakespeare roles

Speaking at the launch of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s new digital learning app on Wednesday (12 November), Sir Ian McKellen confessed that he still grapples with the complexities of Shakespeare’s language, even after more than 60 years on stage.

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Helen Mirren and Ian McKellen launch new Shakespeare curriculum

Dame Helen Mirren has expressed her profound excitement over a new Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) curriculum, designed to revolutionise the teaching of Shakespeare in UK secondary schools.

The Independent UK

Helen Mirren ‘unbelievably excited’ to help launch RSC’s Shakespeare curriculum

The curriculum is a teaching and learning platform that is free for all state and Send schools.

Evening Standard

Holocaust Survivor Ruth Posner And Husband Send Email To Friends After Taking Their Own Lives

“We’ve had enough. We’re ready to go.”

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David Killick obituary

Other lives: Actor whose 60-year career spanned the Royal Shakespeare Company and National Theatre, as well as popular TV shows such as A Touch of Frost

The Guardian - UK

London actress and Holocaust survivor, 96, dies with husband, 97, at Swiss suicide clinic after emailing family goodbye

Ruth Posner, 96, and her husband Michael, 97, said their final goodbyes in an email to family members

Evening Standard

Alex Kingston: The ER and Doctor Who favourite competing on Strictly

The actor is known by millions as beloved TV characters Dr Elizabeth Corday and River Song

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.

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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.

The Guardian - UK

Coronation Street’s Katherine Kelly looks back: ‘My friends were very accepting of me being a bit different’

The actor on wearing men’s clothes, her bohemian family and the six-week soap job that turned into six years

The Independent UK

Fiona Shaw opens up about ‘terrible’ car accident that killed her brother as she rose to fame

‘Harry Potter’ star recalls tragedy that rocked her life at start of career

The National (Scotland)

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

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Oil industry funded Girl Scouts and British Museum to boost image, evidence suggests

BP has funded Washington’s National Gallery of Art, UK’s Royal Shakespeare Company and National Portrait Gallery

The Independent UK

Clive Revill death: Star Wars and Batman actor dies at 94

New Zealand-born actor was a veteran of the Royal Shakespeare Company and made two films with Billy Wilder

The Independent UK

Performing arts bosses protest government’s AI plans

Chief executives from the Royal Shakespeare Company, Royal Albert Hall and National Theatre have shared joint statement urging government to support ‘moral and economic’ rights of creatives

The Guardian - UK

Bardy Thomas obituary

Other lives: Voice coach at the Central School of Speech and Drama, Royal Shakespeare Company and Rada

Evening Standard

David Tennant offers to donate his own skull for iconic Hamlet scene

The actor - who was heralded for his turn in Royal Shakespeare Company production - would be happy to return to play from beyond the grave

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The Royal Shakespeare Company has announced a Her Story-like game where you hack into Lady MacBeth's computer

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The Guardian - UK

Arnold Yarrow obituary

EastEnders actor and writer who also enjoyed a fruitful radio and theatre career, latterly with the Royal Shakespeare Company

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