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The Arts Council’s new report on opera is patronising and snide
The new 115-page document on funding opera and music theatre proves the organisation has lost its way
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Globe Theatre accused of ‘appeasing’ gender activists after staff inclusivity guidance leaked
Training documents told staff to replace words such as 'gentleman' with 'someone' and to avoid using the term 'guys'
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Mathew Baynton: ‘I sometimes think the culture wars only happen in people’s minds’
As he prepares to play Bottom at the RSC, the Ghosts star talks about why making comedy in the UK is no laughing matter
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Danny Sapani: ‘A black actor can play Churchill, but it needs to work both ways’
As he prepares to tackle King Lear at the Almeida, the actor talks about casting, Shakespeare and mortality
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Macbeth: Ralph Fiennes is pure poetry in this trad rather than rad staging
This touring production radiates old-school classiness, with Fiennes powerfully leading from the front
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Judi Dench accidentally video called co-star Ben Whishaw from the bath
88-year-old actress, who starred alongside actor in James Bond, joked her phone is ‘anathema’ and she ‘doesn't know what buttons are for’
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The Box of Delights: a mixed bag – but this children’s Christmas fantasy should delight
The RSC's adaptation of this mystical adventure won't set the world on fire – but it will leave young and old alike feeling pleasingly giddy
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Gregory Doran: Why it’s time to make Shakespeare’s First Folio available to everyone
On the 400th anniversary of its publication, the former RSC artistic director reveals his remarkable globe-trotting mission
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Harriet Walter writes new parts for 30 of Shakespeare’s female characters silenced by ‘patriarchy’
Killing Eve star says Bard’s plays mirror hierarchy of his day with women seldom centre stage and given roles that are subordinate to men
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Hildegard Neil, actress who played Cleopatra to Charlton Heston’s Antony and married Brian Blessed – obituary
Although she called their marriage ‘a long battlefield’, as an actress it gave her ‘focus and freedom’, and they often worked together
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The last time I saw Haydn Gwynne, she was doing cartwheels
The versatile Windsors star, who has died aged just 66, realised the only genre more serious than drama was comedy. She excelled at both
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‘Horrible’ – why Judi Dench loathed The Merchant of Venice
At 88, the great actress opens up about her favourite roles, and why Portia is 'an a---hole', in Shakespeare: The Man who Pays the Rent
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Helen Mirren and Golda Meir’s grandsons on the stealth attack that started the Yom Kippur War
Mirren transformed herself into Israel’s first female leader – who faced down an invasion which, as today, caught her country off-guard
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Boiling Point’s Cathy Tyson interview: ‘Calling someone woke is as bad as a racial slur’
The actress talks about the BBC spin-off of the Bafta-nominated film and why she’s finally happy to talk to The Telegraph – with one proviso
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Opera North’s Richard Mantle: ‘The arts should be fun, not planned with a calculator’
Stepping down after 30 years at the company, the general director talks about the art form's constant uphill struggles – and his next move
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Sir Michael Boyd, artistic director who rescued Royal Shakespeare Company from near-terminal decline – obituary
Within 10 years he had restored it to the commanding heights of British theatre, and (thanks to the smash hit Matilda musical) back in funds
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The Empress: a splendid Queen Victoria – but history is messier than this
Tanika Gupta’s tale of British-Indian relations during Empire is fascinating on paper but suffers from a broad-brushstroke approach
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The King, Shakespeare and the 400-year-old tradition that binds them together
At an event to mark the First Folio’s anniversary, Charles III is said to annotate his copies of the Bard’s works, just like Charles I
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John Nettleton, RSC stalwart and character actor who played Sir Arnold in Yes Minister – obituary
Resonant of voice, authoritative of manner and with a sturdy physical presence, he was as useful in tragedy as in farce
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Sorry, but Shakespeare just isn’t funny
There’s very little to make you laugh across the Bard’s canon – so what's wrong with the occasional bit of rewriting?
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As You Like It: salutes the golden oldie generation of actors – with sparkling results
The RSC’s conceit takes time to beguile, but fresh humour and poignancy emerge in this commendable take on Shakespeare’s comedy
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Rufus Norris to step down from lead role at National Theatre
Artistic director urges the search for his successor – or successors – to be 'broad and inclusive'
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Glenda Jackson, ‘electrifying’ double Oscar-winning actress who spent 23 years as a Labour MP – obituary
She rose to prominence with the Royal Shakespeare Company and her ‘rich, mighty contralto’ was ‘one of the great voices of the theatre’
