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Boys From The Blackstuff’s message remains all too relevant
A stage revival of the TV classic still packs a punch
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Withnail & I has fresh life
Our editor-at-large’s rundown of the pick of the week’s theatre, television and books
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A Twelfth Night to remember
On a warm evening, Regent's Park Open Air Theatre is the best in the capital
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Love Lies Bleeding is a foot-to-the-floor neo-noir thriller
Our editor-at-large’s rundown of the pick of the week’s cinema, theatre and television
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Take a raincheck on Chekhov
The Donmar’s Cherry Orchard is modern, radical and exquisitely boring
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Machinal is joyless and pointless
Tell your more pretentious friends you loved this nihilistic drama - but don’t bother watching it
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PJ Harvey’s Thames musical is a damp squib
London Tide meanders along without knowing what it wants to say
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Why is Shakespeare more controversial than ever
Casting decisions put the Bard at the centre of debate about Britishness
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The phenomenon Ian McKellen defies time in Player Kings
An 85-year-old delivers vulnerability beneath the bravado in an astonishing late-career performance
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Roland Topor: The polymath who made a career out of the grotesque
A dream provided an epitaph inadvertently appropriate for a man who spent his life producing art and literature that shocked and appalled the unsuspecting
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Matthew d’Ancona’s Culture: Long Day’s Journey Into Night is breathtaking
Our editor-at-large’s rundown of the pick of the week’s theatre, television, books and cinema
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In Nye, British theatre goes beyond history
This production at the National Theatre gives Nye Bevan the Churchill treatment
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Theatre Review: Sheridan Smith is mesmerising as a musical star in crisis
Opening Night is intelligent, unusual and unforgettable
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Michael Sheen’s Nye is the opposite of its subject – uninspiring
A show that celebrates the NHS is worthy, surreal but seldom involving
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Great pretender: Billy Crudup is a revelation in Harry Clarke
The Morning Show star shines in a tale of deception
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Theatre Review: A standing ovation for the immersive Guys & Dolls revival
Brave audience members can choose to get right in the thick of the musical’s action
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Matthew d’Ancona’s Culture: An Enemy of the People is a very special production indeed
Our editor-at-large’s rundown of the pick of the week’s theatre, books and cinema
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Theatre Review: His films were horrific.. and so was his acting
But Double Feature’s tale of Vincent Price’s clashes with a director is a misfire
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Matthew d’Ancona’s Culture: Dune Part Two is even better than the first
Our editor-at-large’s rundown of the pick of the week’s film, TV and art
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Theatre Review: A fidgety encounter with Keeley Hawes
The Human Body, also starring Jack Davenport, is a confused homage to a David Lean classic
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Matthew d’Ancona’s Culture: The Picture of Dorian Gray is unmissable
Our editor-at-large’s rundown of the pick of the week’s film, TV and art
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Theatre Review: Matt Smith is electrifying in an Ibsen classic with a very modern message
The former Doctor Who’s second-act speech in An Enemy of the People is a tour de force
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Review: A farewell to the ENO
It’s leaving London and going out on a high
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Matthew d’Ancona’s Culture: An Enemy of the People is political drama of the highest calibre
Our editor-at-large’s new rundown of the pick of the week’s theatre, film and TV
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Theatre Review: A vintage musical’s timely lesson
The King And I contains a powerful message about power and decency
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Theatre Review: Comfort but no chemistry from Hollywood royalty
Real-life couple Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker fail to spark in Plaza Suite
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Theatre Review: Bravo for Daniel Bravo in sexy, sassy Cruel Intentions
A star is born in this high school musical with roots in French literature
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Theatre Review: Woody Harrelson’s Ulster American is funny, brutal and savage
This could be the most truthful play ever about putting on a play
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Theatre Review: The Trumpite who came to tea
Frances Barber is brilliant as a deranged conspiracist in Steven Moffat's play The Unfriend
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Uta Hagen: The best – and most demanding – acting coach in the business
While she became one of the most highly respected names in the history of US theatre, Hagen brought a European sensibility to Broadway
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Can theatre recover from the Covid shock?
Nothing has been quite the same in theatre since the pandemic – investors are risk-averse and a lot of money has been lost
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Theatre Review: Want to watch a great play? Then go for a Burton
The Motive and the Cue is just as good second time around