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Paul Mescal, Stormzy and the return of rep – National Theatre boss reveals her risky debut season

With star names, a Hamlet in shades, orgiastic murder and a miners’ strike musical, Indhu Rubasingham promises something for all. But can she attract newcomers while keeping diehards happy? And is she having sleepless nights?

The Guardian - UK

National Theatre’s shift from repertory plays risks ‘eroding culture’, says David Hare

Playwright calls for return to theatre’s founding vision and to stop ‘angling for West End’

The Guardian - UK

National Theatre ‘does not present world’s drama’, says playwright David Hare

The Oscar-nominated writer warned about the survival of the next ‘generation of writers’.

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‘The more relaxed you are, the better you are as a human’: Nicole Kidman on Kubrick, sharks and risk-taking

The Oscar-winning American-Australian actor answers questions from Observer readers and famous fans including Reese Witherspoon, Hugh Jackman and Naomi Watts

The Guardian - UK

David Hare: ‘I don’t have much time. I am trying to write a lot of stuff’

Now 77, the playwright who has chronicled British life for 50 years, says he is stepping up his work rate as he has limited scope to tell important stories

The Guardian - UK

The best theatre to stream this month: Starlight Express, Nye, Beat the Devil and more

A cast recording for the souped-up train musical is released, Michael Sheen plays the NHS hero at the National and David Hare delivers his Covid memoir

The Guardian - UK

Too much theatre memorabilia is being lost to private collectors, says David Hare

As hundreds of personal effects belonging to playwright John Osborne go up for sale, Hare laments that the V&A is not bidding

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‘You become addicted to pressure’: Rufus Norris on success, stress and the National Theatre’s survival

He has triumphed over controversies, the ‘devastation’ of Covid and 100-hour weeks. As Norris leaves the biggest job in British theatre, he reveals his final season – and his plans to take up carpentry and design kayaks

The Guardian - UK

Boom in cataract surgery in England as private clinics eye huge profits

With NHS England outsourcing nearly 60% of surgery, critics say it is sapping funding for more serious conditions

The Guardian - UK

‘He made every sentence electric’: Martin Amis remembered by Tina Brown, his old friend and devoted editor

He called her Tiny. She called him Bruno. In this speech from today’s memorial service to the novelist, the legendary magazine editor celebrates her cocky, beguiling and witheringly funny star writer

The Guardian - UK

Trevor Griffiths obituary

Politically committed dramatist and screenwriter admired for his radical stage and television work created over the last 50 years

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‘The timing was impeccable’: why it took a TV series to bring the Post Office scandal to light

Despite a two-year inquiry and years of campaigning, it was the four-hour drama Mr Bates vs the Post Office that enabled the British public to pay proper attention to the unbelievable horrors of this story

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Richard Rampton obituary

Leading defamation barrister who led the courtroom case against the Holocaust denier David Irving in 2000

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Digested week: even a dreary way to dump Trump is a dream

Plus, Dan Wootton and Lawrence Fox demand a dreadful choice, and why Dannii Minogue was always on Brand

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Patients paying £550 an hour to see private GPs amid NHS frustrations

Signs that NHS’s inability to offer prompt care is creating surge in people resorting to private care

Evening Standard

Row about musicals dominating West End ‘fuelled by snobbery’, says Berlusconi director

A row about the dominance of musicals over plays in the West End is fuelled by snobbery, according to the director of a new hit show.

The Guardian - UK

One in eight Britons pay for private health services, survey shows

Campaigners say underinvestment in NHS is forcing patients to seek private treatment if they can afford it

The Guardian - UK

Enter stage right: the new wave of musicals taking on the West End adaptations

With everything from Bake Off to Pretty Woman putting bums on seats in Theatreland, launching an original homegrown production is harder than ever. But might salvation be at hand in the unlikely shape of Silvio Berlusconi?

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The Guardian - UK

The best musicals are the equal of great plays, so why the snobbery?

The song’n’dance genre is everywhere, David Hare has bemoaned. He needs to watch more of these joyous shows

The Guardian - UK

Musicals are having an exceptional moment – but classic plays are vanishing from UK stages

There are invigorating versions of Guys and Dolls, Oklahoma! and Cabaret in London – and some enticing new dramas coming up – yet theatre risks being cut off from its past

The Independent UK

Andrew Lloyd Webber hits out at David Hare over claim musicals are ‘strangling’ West End

Playwright Hare claimed that the musical production of ‘Oklahoma!’ is currently ‘squatting’ in the Wyndham’s Theatre

Daily Mirror

Curse of abandoned Wild West town - from murder in 'Death Cave' to lion attacks

The abandoned Two Guns in Arizona was once a thriving town that housed a zoo as well as guides around a haunted cave were 42 Apache Indians were killed in an act of revenge

The Guardian - UK

David Warner was gentle, inquisitive – and stunning on stage

An actor of innate tenderness and grace, Warner had a theatre career of two halves, each with superb performances for the RSC

The Guardian - UK

David Warner obituary

Stage and screen actor hailed for his 1965 Hamlet at the RSC who went on to have a distinguished film and TV career

The Guardian - UK

Ron Pember obituary

Actor whose TV roles ranged from a resistance radio operator in Secret Army to a variety of spivs and seedy operators

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