Jared LetoJared Leto considered wearing drag to the OscarsLeto, who won the best supporting actor award for his portrayal of a transgender woman in Dallas Buyers Club, says the experience changed his views on the Academy Awards, and on female groomingJared Leto has revealed heconsidered attending the Oscars in drag to pick up his best supporting actor prize for portraying a transgender woman suffering from AIDS in Dallas Buyers Club.

William ShakespeareReviewSt Peter's Church, ManchesterThis is more like it. After a lightweight Macbeth at Shakespeare's Globe, we now get a production that gets closer to the heart of the play's mystery. Staged in a deconsecrated Victorian church for the Manchester International Festival, it is co-directed by Rob Ashford and Kenneth Branagh and boasts a performance by the latter that reminds us what an intemperately exciting Shakespearean actor he is. The production has many fine qualities as well as one or two dubious ones.

Wisconsin This article is more than 6 months oldTeen dies in sawmill accident as US states aim to roll back child labor lawsThis article is more than 6 months oldInvestigation underway after police were called to find unresponsive teenager last week at Florence Hardwoods sawmill A 16-year-old boy has died following an industrial accident at a sawmill in Wisconsin. Police received an early-morning call last Thursday regarding an unresponsive teenager at Florence Hardwoods, a sawmill in northern Wisconsin, according to the Florence county sheriff’s office.

StageObituaryClare McIntyre obituaryShe was among the 1980s generation of playwrights who tackled feminist issuesClare McIntyre, who has died of multiple sclerosis, aged 57, was one of an extraordinary generation of British female playwrights who emerged in the 1980s. Before then there were really only two nationally known women writing in the British theatre, Caryl Churchill and Pam Gems. By the end of the decade, there were two to three dozen. Although her first play, I've Been Running, was performed at the Old Red Lion theatre pub in Islington, north London, McIntyre's two best-known plays were presented – like many other plays by women at the time – by the Royal Court theatre under the artistic directorship of Max Stafford-Clark.

‘Creative principle’ Kofi Flexxx.‘Creative principle’ Kofi Flexxx.The ObserverJazzReview(Native Rebel) The Sons of Kemet frontman joins forces with associates including Alex Hawkins and Daisy George in an expansive collaboration that’s more than the sum of its parts Native Rebel is the label run by Shabaka Hutchings (Sons of Kemet, The Comet Is Coming, Shabaka and the Ancestors), who will be retiring his principal instrument, the tenor sax, at the end of the year.