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Why Shakespeare is totally overrated

With endless adaptations on stage and screen, does Shakespeare deserve all the reverence?

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Don't fancy Edinburgh? Try the Camden Fringe

We speak to the co-founder of the Camden Fringe, a more affordable alternative to the Edinburgh Fringe also on this month.

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Edinburgh Fringe: Our Choose-Your-Own Adventure guide to the festival

Don't know how to handle the world's biggest arts festival? We've got you covered.

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Spirited Away stage adaptation set to open in London's West End

'Spirited Away', the acclaimed Japanese animated film that took home the Best Animated Feature Oscar in 2001, is making its way to London as a stage play adaptation.

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A look back at this year's world-renowned Festival d’Avignon

France's world-renowned theatre festival came to a close this week. Euronews Culture looks back at the festival's 77th edition - which proved to be more European than ever.

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Opera star Sarah Brightman talks climate change and her career

The soprano made her theatre debut in the West End in Cats in 1981. Today she has sold more than 25 million albums and two million DVDs.

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Catch giants roaming the streets of France and Belgium this summer

'I felt transported back to childhood': Where to catch Royal de Luxe’s giant puppets this summer.

Hungary

Music and dance across Hungary as it hosts European Capital of Culture

Locals and visitors are flocking to thousands of events in Veszprém and around Lake Balaton for the European Capital of Culture [ECC] season.

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Cultural Digest: Don't miss these events in Europe this week

Want a taste of culture this week? Here's what you might have missed.

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Meet the performance artists keeping their culture alive in Gaza

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Festival d'Avignon brings theatre to a mediaeval castle in France

The Festival d’Avignon has kicked off in France bringing a month long of theatrical festivities to its mediaeval city location.

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Culture Re-View: On this day in 1613, the Globe Theatre burns down

29 June 1613: The first Globe Theatre burns down

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Romania's Sibiu Festival takes place with dancing, music and theatre

The annual Sibiu International Theatre Festival is set to be one of the biggest ever with dancing, music and theatre from many countries taking part

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Culture Re-View: The cultural legacy of Brexit, seven years on

23 June 2016: Britain votes to leave the European Union

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Tony Awards 2023: 'Kimberly Akimbo' & non-binary actors reign supreme

The musical "Kimberly Akimbo" emerged as the unexpected victor at the Tony Awards. J. Harrison Ghee and Alex Newell also became the first non-binary actors to win Tonys for acting.

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Canadian wildfires: Actress Jodie Comer forced to halt Broadway show

The 'Killing Eve' actress was forced to stop her performance in New York after suffering breathing difficulties amidst unhealthy air quality in the city.

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'White Lotus' actor fears for cast safety over new play about Putin

'Patriots' has opened in the London West End to tell the tale of Boris Berezovsky, the Russian oligarch who helped put Vladimir Putin in power.

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Austrian actor Peter Simonischek, star of ‘Toni Erdmann’, dies at 76

The celebrated theatre actor and star of Maren Ade's 2016 award-winning comedy 'Toni Erdmann' has died.

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Meet the British women modernising classical theatre

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Who is stand out Eurovision host Hannah Waddingham?

While the 'Game of Thrones' and 'Ted Lasso' star is already popular in some circles, it's likely that her star turn hosting the Eurovision Song Contest will propel her to further fame.