Two long plays.

Both tackling weary fathers and wayward heirs.

Both near each other in London’s West End.

But only one drags, writes: Kate Maltby:

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This week's column at the i:

Why it matters that I can still call Harvey Weinstein a rapist

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Opinion I Why it matters that I can still call Harvey Weinstein a rapist

🖋️ Kate Maltby trib.al/OI3BJRw

Of course they bloody did

thetimes.co.uk/article/ff2b51…

Elizabeth Tsurkov is a PhD researcher at Princeton. She was kidnapped over a year ago by Kataib Hezbollah in Iraq.

Yesterday, the flag of the sister organization of her kidnappers was raised at the Princeton protests.

And after the reviews, twostrangersmusical has just extended its run by seven weeks!

The public outrage of January has faded, but the Post Office inquiry continues to peel back more layers of moral depravity.

A gentle Thursday afternoon read: Sarah Connolly discussing the merits of different forms of capital punishment, and why she's heading up an opera funded by a regime she previously described as “murdering autocrats stuck in a time warp.'

For VAN Magazine

van-magazine.com/mag/sarah-conn…

It's Thursday, which means today subscribers to our culture newsletter Prospect got my latest theatre recommendation: twostrangersmusical at London's Criterion.(I was less keen on London Tide.)

A reminder that you can subscribe here for our weekly picks🔗prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/62107/…

A reminder that Harvey Weinstein is still a convicted rapist.

Which means I’m allowed to call him a rapist.
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#Breaking : Toomaj Salehi, a rapper known for his vocal support of the Woman Life Freedom movement & Index's arts award winner in 2023, has been sentenced to death in Iran. To face a death sentence for singing about human rights is the most grotesque affront to justice #FreeToomaj

The heroes of Iran are its people, and little will improve in this world while they continue to suffer under their terrible ruling regime.

'Giving new rights to people, such as the access to speech, doesn’t mean dispossessing other people of that right.'

3 years back, this wouldn't be published in Jacobin & 'progressive' theatre people wouldn't be sharing it as they are. Are things changing?
jacobin.com/2024/04/edouar…

This week's i newspaper column: my excuse to talk about my hero Salman Rushdie

Rushdie is our greatest novelist. As he's all too aware in his book 'Knife',the fatwa has the irony of making him also a martyr. But can liberals, lovers of doubt, have martyrs? inews.co.uk/opinion/salman…

I do hope those poor horses are OK, but I couldn’t help wondering if it was all a viral marketing stunt for London Tide, National Theatre’s new musical about the flow of the Thames through London (and how all things wash up at Limehouse!)

Amazing. The theatre critic David Benedict 🏳️‍🌈🕎 has made history: in EU law on false advertising!
thestage.co.uk/opinion/mislea…?