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NEWS ABOUT: Royal Shakespeare Company

Royal Shakespeare Company stories: 4 news summaries

 Pianist's Skull 
 Steals Hamlet Scene 

Concert pianist left skull to theater

Nov 26, 08 9:24 AM CST
(Newser) - A concert pianist has appeared on stage in a 22-performance run of Hamlet—26 years after his death. André Tchaikowsky, a Polish Jew who was smuggled out of Warsaw as a child of 7, left his skull to the Royal Shakespeare Company upon his death in 1982. It was finally... More »

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theater • skull • William Shakespeare • Royal Shakespeare Company • Hamlet • André Tchaikowsky • Robert Andrzej Krauthammer

Troop Crams 118 Years of Shakespeare Into 2 Months

RSC mounts all 8 history plays with one cast in London

Apr 4, 08 10:23 AM CDT
(Newser) - Shakespeare's eight history plays cover 118 years of English royal succession, but one troop of actors is going to present the entire span in just two months. The Royal Shakespeare Company has decamped from Stratford-upon-Avon to London, where they are mounting all the plays in repertory on a single set.... More »

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theater • London • United Kingdom • William Shakespeare • Royal Shakespeare Company

 Actor Paul Scofield Dead at 86 

British star of stage and screen won Oscar for A Man for All Seasons

Mar 20, 08 7:25 AM CDT
(Newser) - Paul Scofield, the British actor who won an Oscar for his portrayal of Thomas More in A Man For All Seasons, has died at the age of 86. His agent told Reuters that the actor, who eschewed Hollywood stardom for smaller film roles and a robust theater career, had been... More »

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theater • obituary • leukemia • Royal Shakespeare Company • actor • Paul Scofield • A Man for All Seasons • Oscar winner

Fake-speare: Scholar Says Bard Portrait
Is a Phony

400-year-old painting was swapped, she says

Oct 25, 07 1:34 PM CDT
(Newser) - A famous portrait of Shakespeare owned by the Royal Shakespeare Company is a fake—a 19th-century imitation that replaced the older original sometime in the past decade, a German scholar claimed yesterday. “Where is the priceless 400-year-old original 'Flower' portrait?” she asks, saying that the painting appears different this... More »

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painting • English literature • William Shakespeare • Royal Shakespeare Company • National Gallery

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