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Orange Tree, Richmond Set in a Shropshire village, Joe White's tender and wise play is suffused with grief, loss " and unexpected laughsIt's cold comfort down on the pig farm in this heartbr…
The Alphabet (Google) subsidiary "says it removed 8.3m videos for breaching its community guidelines between October and December last year as it tries to address criticism of violent and of…
National, LondonThe easy word to describe Brian Friel's Aristocrats is "Chekhovian". The decay of a great Georgian house, the decline of a once-powerful Catholic family, the eventual expulsi…
Abbey theatre, DublinA sensitive revival of Brian Friel's play about a Catholic family in Donegal offers no easy answers to the problems of class and kinThe title of Brian Friel's play from …
Alan Bennett feels passionately about education, he tells John Crace - from the issues he raises in The History Boys to 'morally wrong' university tuition feesThere's a line in The History B…
The choreographer on staging Crave with an all-female cast and the struggle of performing with Merce Cunningham's companyJulie Cunningham might have been precision-engineered to dance the re…
Male and female stars to share roles in new spin on Shakespeare tale of sex and powerGender fluidity on stage will be taken to the next level when the actors Hayley Atwell and Jack Lowden al…
October 1, 1946: the first night of JB Priestley's play left critics bored and stifling groans"Bang! Bang! Mr Priestley lets drive with both barrels," was the Times's verdict on An Inspector…
Writing, like anything " from athletics to nuclear physics " depends on a basic degree of talent, which can be cultivated through training. So let's stop pretending that devoting a year or t…
His frenetic hip-hop history The Get Down may have floundered but there's no stopping the director. He talks about his Elvis movie, his boho love life " and resurrecting Strictly Ballroom fo…
The Guardian says: "In this brittle standoff, fault lies on both sides. The French anti-streaming measures may be draconian, but resistance to Netflix's anti-cinema model is quite understand…
Trafalgar Studios, LondonThere is much to enjoy and to squirm about in Joel Drake Johnson's dissection of the office politics of some highly manipulative, racist characters The meaning of it…
Lyric Theater, New YorkJK Rowling's wildly popular stage show has been brought to life again with audacious production design and crowd-pleasing wonderAnyone who tells you that adolescence i…
Here's why: "Literary recognition would transform every other young black boy writing rhymes. It would stick two fingers up at the notion that the only way young black boys can get respect i…
Mattel's been met with a temporary injunction after "Kahlo's great-niece Mara de Anda Romeo argued in a Mexican court that Mattel does not have the rights to use Kahlo's image as part of its…
This wasn't a fast decision about the man who didn't use anesthesia when he performed experimental surgeries on the women. "The removal of his 80-year-old statue comes after eight years of p…
Trevor Griffiths's groundbreaking 1975 play that 'invited audiences to laugh, then punished them for doing so' is 40 years old. Here, those who made it look back at this 'totally original' s…
Eliot, whose non-pen-name was Mary Ann Evans, lived for decades with her partner, whose open marriage meant that when his wife had a baby with a different man, he was fine with it (and suppo…
The British writer and lyricist Marita Phillips, a descendant of Pushkin's, grew up with a large book of his fairy tales, and she's wanted to mount an opera about him, and his tragically ear…
Ringmistress Nell Gifford tells why even cancer and divorce can't stop the showFor the 250th anniversary of circus, Nell Gifford, ringmistress at Britain's retro-chic Giffords Circus, is obs…
Aldwych, London; Everyman, Liverpool; Royal Court, LondonAdrienne Warren is a knockout as Tina Turner, droog culture rules in Liverpool. Plus, how to build a flat-pack childThe two most sign…
Barbican, LondonViviana Durante revives early works by Kenneth MacMillan in a programme full of poignant insightsWhen the choreographer Kenneth MacMillan died in 1992, he left behind him mor…
Sherman theatre, CardiffAn estranged couple's struggle to come to terms with past trauma is hampered by a poor choice of set designBrad Birch's new play charts a series of aftershocks experi…
Outrageously rude and shockingly funny, Amy Schumer has always made her audiences gasp. She talks to Sophie Heawood about falling in love, one-night stands and going nuts on stageWhen I meet…
Story of Scottish meteorologist James Stagg's crucial intervention in Operation Overlord comes to the West End in tense drama PressureA tense historical drama celebrating the D-day intervent…
