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Edinburgh festival 2025: 20 theatre shows to see this summer

Peter Pan has a pop fantasy, Faustus is in Africa, Brian Cox leads a banking satire and Billy Connolly meets the late Alasdair Gray. Elsewhere, the joy of pickling, a landmark jazz album and Elton Jo…

9 days ago

Funny, weird … sexy? How to find your perfect wedding poem

Small, huge, camp, Star Trek-themed … weddings have changed beyond recognition, but we’re still reading out the same old Shakespeare sonnets. What to read at a modern ceremony? Plus, leading poets pi…

13 days ago

Juliet & Romeo review – Rebel Wilson and Jason Isaacs cameo in syrupy Shakespeare musical

With bare-faced cheek, this bardless take replaces all the original language with olden-days-effect prose – adding singing, dancing and a pointlessly starry cast

Director and former stage actor Timoth…

14 days ago

Saul review – probing, dark and engrossing staging of Handel’s oratorio

Glyndebourne, Sussex
Barrie Kosky’s remarkable 2015 production returns to the summer festival with Christopher Purves and Iestyn Davies superb in the lead roles

The Glyndebourne season continues with a…

‘The death of creativity’? AI job fears stalk advertising industry

WPP and others roll out AI-generated campaigns as Google and Facebook owner Meta plans to let firms create their own ads

  • WPP chief Mark Read to step down as agency battles AI

From using motion capture …

17 days ago

A Midsummer Night’s Dream review – Nicholas Hytner’s revels return with bawdy, uninhibited mischief

Bridge theatre, London
The immersive setup brings the audience into the midst of the play’s shapeshifting unreality among a comedy-gold cast of magical characters

Shenanigans reign in this neck of the …

19 days ago

How the use of a word in the Guardian has gotten some readers upset | Elisabeth Ribbans

‘Got’ was changed during the editing of an opinion piece, leading to correspondence lamenting a slide into American English. But language isn’t a fortress

In Shakespeare’s Henry VI, Part II, a messeng…

25 days ago

26 days ago

​Violent and lewd! Not Grand Theft Auto, Shakespeare’s Macbeth

If Shakespeare were around today, he’d be making open-world shooters with the same depth and diversion as his plays

Last week, the Guardian spoke to the team behind Lili, a video game retelling of Mac…

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