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For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emailsSign up to our free breaking news emailsSign up to our free breaking news emailsIn acting, sometimes less is more. Tobias Menzies is from the school that favours restraint. He won an Emmy for his understated portrayal of a weary and frustrated Prince Philip in The Crown, and managed to keep the straightest of faces as Sharon Horgan’s gynaecologist in her filthy sitcom Catastrophe. He’s a master at conveying emotion with barely a twitch, as a self-conscious therapist in the tender indie…

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emailsSign up to our free breaking news emailsSign up to our free breaking news emailsThere are few surprises in Tanika Gupta’s play about dementia. The ending’s in the title, and it’s a pretty grimly linear journey to get there. A Tupperware of Ashes follows steely Queenie – who came to the UK from Calcutta and set up a Michelin-starred restaurant – from forgetting names and burning dinner to her Alzheimer’s diagnosis and then on to, well, the Tupperware.The play mashes together three…

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emailsSign up to our free breaking news emailsSign up to our free breaking news emailsGavin Creel, the Tony Award-winning Broadway actor, has died. He was 48.Creel won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical in 2017 for Hello, Dolly! and had also previously been nominated for his roles in Thoroughly Modern Millie and Hair.The New York Times reports that his death was caused by a metastatic melanotic peripheral nerve sheath sarcoma, a type of nerve cancer which the actor…

Mikel Arteta is actively looking to defuse tensions with Pep Guardiola, following a draw last weekend that saw the Man City boss call for “war” with Arsenal.However, in a press conference following Arsenal’s game against Leicester City, Arteta insisted it’s just part of the game.“I can repeat it, very clear. I love Pep. I admire him. And I have admired him since I was 10 years old”, he said.“I respect him profoundly. I am so grateful for everything he did for me and continues to do with me. I consider him a friend.”

Sign up to Miguel Delaney’s Reading the Game newsletter sent straight to your inbox for freeSign up to Miguel’s Delaney’s free weekly newsletter Sign up to Miguel’s Delaney’s free weekly newsletter Luton winger Tahith Chong is “a bit sore but fine” after a worrying collapse during his side’s defeat to Plymouth Argyle at Home Park.Chong took a blow to the head and lay motionless for some time just before half-time in the Championship clash, and was seen to by medics.After receiving treatment, the 24-year-old was able to walk to the visitors’ dressing room unaided, though seemingly sporting a large bump…

Sign up to Miguel Delaney’s Reading the Game newsletter sent straight to your inbox for freeSign up to Miguel’s Delaney’s free weekly newsletter Sign up to Miguel’s Delaney’s free weekly newsletter Tottenham boss Ange Postecoglou praised the intent of his team after they started their Europa League campaign with an impressive 3-0 home win over Qarabag despite being forced to play with 10 men for 83 minutes.After kick-off was delayed due to the late arrival of Qarabag’s team bus, Radu Dragusin’s night lasted only seven minutes when he received a red card for a cynical pull on Juninho as Spurs’…

Sign up to Roisin O’Connor’s free weekly newsletter Now Hear This for the inside track on all things musicGet our Now Hear This email for freeGet our Now Hear This email for freeThom Yorke is reworking Radiohead’s 2003 album Hail to the Thief for a new version of Shakespeare’s Hamlet that plans to fuse theatre, music and movement. Hamlet Hail to the Thief, which will open in Manchester next spring, will be performed by a cast of musicians and actors and run at Aviva Studios from 27 April to 18 May. It will then transfer to the Royal Shakespeare theatre…

E2E is excited to reveal the E2E Job Creation 100 list for 2024, in collaboration with The Independent. This exclusive list celebrates those companies that have had the highest absolute growth in jobs over the two most recent filing periods, with a percentage growth in staff above 25%.The E2E Job Creation 100 list pays homage to the vital role that these businesses have played in strengthening the UK economy, spanning various sectors and setting the example for other organisations to follow suit.Some of the distinguished leaders are Craig Dean, Executive Chairman and CEO at Gerald Group Limited, who has driven…

Sign up to Miguel Delaney’s Reading the Game newsletter sent straight to your inbox for freeSign up to Miguel’s Delaney’s free weekly newsletter Sign up to Miguel’s Delaney’s free weekly newsletter Last season, Jurgen Klopp described Diogo Jota as the best finisher at Anfield. If Arne Slot is yet to bestow such a compliment – and, more modest in his rhetoric, his praise of anyone so far has tended to be measured – he has installed the Portuguese as his first-choice No 9, a role he only had intermittently under the German. If Slot looked justified after the biggest win…

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emailsSign up to our free breaking news emailsSign up to our free breaking news emailsIt’s a bit of a risk to put a lesser-known Shakespeare play with a vaguely comical name in the National Theatre’s massive Olivier space. But you wouldn’t know it from the monumental confidence of Lyndsey Turner’s swaggering production, full of antique grandeur and up-to-the-minute fireworks. The story’s set in the early days of Ancient Rome – the city’s fierce origin myth referenced by a giant statue of the…