“The festival is more fragile than ever”: the Edinburgh Fringe wars
The Fringe should be enjoying its 75th year. Instead Nish Kumar, Mark Watson and other performers insist it needs reform.
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Ethel Smyth’s The Wreckers brings the darker side of Englishness to Glyndebourne
Described as the most important English opera composed between Purcell and Britten, this is its first proper revival in a…
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Jerusalem, Jez Butterworth’s masterpiece, takes on new meaning in 2022
This stirring, slick play on Englishness returns 13 years later, with the same lead actors, Mark Rylance and Mackenzie Crook.…
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Aaron Sorkin’s To Kill a Mockingbird is a fierce, funny and near-flawless stage adaptation
Not a homage but a necessary departure, the play interrogates the novel’s approach to race and addresses the elements that…
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Moulin Rouge! The Musical is a soulless stage adaptation of the 2001 film
This attempt to re-energise a 20-year-old movie just feels tired.
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James Graham’s new play Best of Enemies reveals the origins of our culture war
This drama set in the late 1960s explores the televised debates between William F Buckley and Gore Vidal, and asks: is…
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Mandy Patinkin on Stephen Sondheim: “I got to be in the room with Shakespeare. Who gets that?”
The actor reflects on the death of the great American composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim.
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Brexit Britain is “changing whether it likes it or not”
The National Theatre’s Death of England explores Englishness after Brexit and the Covid-19 pandemic.
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