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Andrew Scott, Fleabag’s sexy priest, announces one-man show in West End

Sherlock star to appear in Vanya, a Simon Stephens adaptation of Chekov’s Uncle Vanya

Evening Standard

Review: In Paul Schrader's disappointing 'Master Gardener,' a violent racist turns over a new leaf

"Master Gardener" completes what the writer-director Paul Schrader has described as a kind of trilogy, and what I've come to see as a fascinating game of topical bingo.

Los Angeles Times

Karl Geary: ‘I was writing out of confusion and horror, rage and love’

The actor turned novelist on creating authentic working-class characters, swapping Dublin for New York aged 16, and why sewing is like writing

The Guardian - UK

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The Cherry Orchard review – Katie Mitchell presents the view from the trees

The director’s latest eco-theatre production gives us fragments of Chekhov’s dialogue and a searing reading of our relationship with nature

The Guardian - UK

2022 Golden Horse Asian Cinema Observer Report: Part 1

Our film critic CJ Sheu was at the Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival to review nominees for the Asian Cinema Observer Recommendation Prize. Here he gives brief reviews of entries from Indonesia, Japan, Macau, Hong Kong, and South Korea.

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In Kyiv, I saw Ukrainians on the frontlines of a very real culture war

For many in Ukraine, this is a war of ‘decolonisation’ – and that includes Russia’s celebrated artistic heritage, says Charlotte Higgins

The Guardian - UK

George Saunders: ‘This capitalism thing has got limits’

After winning the Booker Prize for debut novel ‘Lincoln in the Bardo’, the author returns to the short-story form with new collection ‘Liberation Day’. He talks to Kevin E G Perry about his fascination with Custer’s Last Stand, what John Steinbeck taught him about socialism and learning to embrace uncertainty

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Aboriginal actor-turned-director Shari Sebbens takes the reins on new theatre productions in Sydney and Melbourne in 2023

The Jabirr Jabirr and Bardi actor-turned-director is best known for her film and TV work, but her first love is theatre - and in 2023, she's directing a whopping four shows on Australia's main stages.

ABC News

The Cherry Orchard review – Chekhov in space

Vinay Patel’s sci-fi adaptation boldly goes into the future on a rickety starship while exploring entrenched hierarchies and class

The Guardian - UK

From King Charles III to King Lear: what theatre tells us about taking the throne

Mike Bartlett’s 2014 play anticipated a constitutional crisis, while playwrights including Shakespeare and Chekhov have shown how traumatic a transfer of power can be

The Guardian - UK

Writer Vinay Patel on sending Chekhov into space: “I feel I’ve earned taking a swing”

Vinay Patel was seven years old when he first attempted to put an epic science-fiction story on stage. Sadly for the acclaimed playwright and screenwriter, he spent so much time putting up the elaborate tinfoil set during the school assembly that his allotted time ran out and he was unceremoniously…

Evening Standard

The theatre tickets to book in London in autumn 2022 - snap them up now!

From a non-binary Joan of Arc to David Tennant as a Nazi and Chekhov in space, it’s one hell of a season on London’s stages

Evening Standard

Ukraine wages its own war against Russia's cultural icons in its midst

LVIV, Ukraine — In wartime Ukraine, Pyotr Tchaikovsky is having a turbulent afterlife.

Los Angeles Times

On my radar: Marina Abramović’s cultural highlights

The artist on an exhibition made by spiders, cryptocurrency activism and her love of astrology

The Guardian - UK

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Review: The superbly tense 'Murina' gives us a coming-of-age drama once more, with eeling

"Murina," an impressively tense, psychologically astute drama from Croatia, opens with a glimpse of Chekhov's spear gun, a device not uncommon in tales of underwater peril.

The Guardian - UK

Avignon festival review – hit the timewarp gym and dive into a trippy Chekhov

There are epic and uneven shows from Olivier Py and Simon Falguières but Kirill Serebrennikov and Miet Warlop prove to be essential theatre voices

The Guardian - UK

The week in theatre: The Seagull; The Southbury Child; Richard III

The action’s all in the detail in Jamie Lloyd’s spellbound Chekhov; Alex Jennings excels as a vicar refusing to find the common touch; and Richard III falls short of its health warning

The Independent UK

The Seagull, Harold Pinter Theatre: Game of Thrones star’s West End debut doesn’t half drag-on

Indira Varma is excellent, but this self-referential rewrite of Chekhov’s 1895 play feels slow and self-indulgent

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Evening Standard

The Seagull at the Harold Pinter Theatre, London review: Emilia Clarke is charismatic in her West End debut

Game of Thrones star is far from the only reason to grab a ticket

The Guardian - UK

The Seagull review – woodchip-walled Chekhov is hypnotic

Emilia Clarke and Indira Varma star in Jamie Lloyd’s stripped-back West End production which asks probing questions about performance

The Guardian - UK

Emilia Clarke: ‘The best place in the world is backstage at a theatre’

The Game of Thrones star on her self-doubt as the hit show took off, her decision to write about her brain aneurysms and showing her love through baking

Newcastle Herald

Brave start for Her Productions with Uncle Vanya

IN a city already swimming in theatre companies and with limited audience numbers, the question might reasonably be asked: does Newcastle need another one?

The Guardian - AU

‘My experience was not #MeToo, it was #HerToo’: Eryn Jean Norvill on her life-changing return to the stage

Three years after being an unwilling protagonist in a media circus, the actor reflects on her career-defining turn in Dorian Gray – and what comes next

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Russian director leads Philly production of ‘Cherry Orchard’ and worries about the fate of his own nation

All Russia is our orchard. — Anton Chekhov

The Independent UK

Director of 'Drive My Car' surprised by Oscar, popularity

Japanese director Ryusuke Hamaguchi says he was surprised by the international popularity of his Oscar-winning film “Drive My Car,” but attributes it to the universality of the short story by Haruki Murakami on which it is based

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