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Dafne Keen and Harriet Walter on working with Patrick Stewart: ‘I’ve never seen anyone so ecstatic’
The late actor’s co-stars in Logan and Anthony and Cleopatra remember dog impressions, marching band-conducting and a fervent belief in fun
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From Shakespeare to Star Trek: Patrick Stewart’s extraordinary life – The LatestSir Patrick Stewart obituary
Middlemarch review – World’s Greatest Novel hurtles from deathbed panto to jolting marital tragedy
Shabana Mahmood urged to grant visa to former Weather Underground activist
Cheer up, Scrooge! The merriest Christmas theatre shows, from musketeers to a penguin party
‘I laughed so hard my Tampax fell out’: Michael Gambon’s pranks revealed by the stars he cracked up
As You Like It review – there are no mere players in the RSC’s ravishing all-male escapade
RSC embraces ‘hugely challenging’ task of staging Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi and Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway
First Encounters: Julius Caesar review – so thrilling it kept a hall full of teens in pin-drop silence
Other lives
John Bruce obituary
Autumn arts preview 2026
Tilda Swinton’s blast from the past, Kevin Bridges at large and a deepfake ballet: theatre, comedy and dance to see this autumnRSC postpones Othello while leading actor Sharon D Clarke has cancer treatment
Game of Thrones, Shakespearean? What fools these mortals be!
Michael BillingtonSheila Ballantine obituary
‘Makes Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey seem understated’ – critics weigh up Game of Thrones: The Mad King
Game of Thrones: The Mad King review – an action-packed saga of dry ice and fire
‘Can’t stop smiling!’ The wait is over for epic Game of Thrones prequel The Mad King
What, no sequinned crooners? How cruises became the home for world class theatre
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