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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Zadie Smith’s stage debut is a filthy, feminist reworking of Chaucer
In The Wife of Willesden, the acclaimed novelist of voices has at last let her characters speak aloud.
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The Tragedy of Macbeth at the Almeida Theatre: here, nothing is polite
Yaël Farber’s production, starring James McArdle and Saoirse Ronan, summons up an energy that is raw and bloody.
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Michael Sheen: Why the creative industries need to do more to offer others a writing chance
Unpaid internships and an increasingly London-centric industry are preventing people from lower-income backgrounds from entering the arts. I want to…
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The final curtain call: How Covid-19 has left Britain’s theatres in crisis
Despite the government’s £1.57bn support package, theatres across the UK are being forced to make redundancies – or even to close…
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Icon Theatre's political play about ex-offenders is fringe theatre at its best.
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The NS Interview: Harriet Walter, actress
“The good guys have got to shout louder. It’s always the way”
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