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Maggie O’Farrell’s lauded 2020 novel Hamnet is a dense and lyrical imagining of the lives of William Shakespeare’s family, full of interior thought and lush descriptions of the physical world. It would seem, upon reading, near impossible to adapt into a film. Or, at least, a film worthy of O’Farrell’s so finely woven sensory spell. Film-maker Chloé Zhao has attempted …

Play on! The Public Theater’s Free Shakespeare in the Park made a dramatic return Thursday night, reopening the iconic Delacorte Theater in Central Park after an $85 million facelift. Lupita Nyong’o, Sandra Oh, Peter Dinklage, and Jesse Tyler Ferguson led an all-star cast of “Twelfth Night,” wowing audience members including Ben Platt, Billy Crudup, Marcia Gay Harden, Rachel Dratch, and “Gilded …

The Verdict What Do The Reviews Say About Twelfth Night at Free Shakespeare in the Park? The star-studded outdoor production, directed by Saheem Ali, plays the newly renovated Delacorte. Jesse Tyler Ferguson, John Ellison Conlee, and Lupita Nyong’o in Twelfth Night Joan Marcus The Public Theater’s Free Shakespeare in the Park production of Twelfth Night, which began performances August 7, …

A will that has been lost for more than 150 years and was at the centre of a bitter legal battle by William Shakespeare’s family over who owned the playwright’s final home has been unearthed in an unlabelled box at the National Archives. The original 1642 document was made by Thomas Nash, who was married to Shakespeare’s granddaughter Elizabeth Hall. …

Inside the $85 Million Renovation of Central Park’s Home for Shakespeare  The New York Times The Delacorte: A Palace for the People  New York Social Diary The Line’s the Thing: Shakespeare in the Park Returns to Upper West Side Thursday  West Side Rag How to Get Tickets to Free Shakespeare in the Park in New York City  Playbill Free NYC Shakespeare in the Park …

Google is partnering with authors, researchers, and publications to launch “featured” notebooks within its AI notetaking app, NotebookLM. These notebooks come pre-filled with research, and let you interact with the app’s tools, including its AI podcast maker, to learn more about each topic. Google started letting users share their notebooks publicly last month, and this most recent update appears to …