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Sir Lenny Henry receives Freedom of the City of London

The comedian and actor joins previous recipients including Dame Judi Dench and Damian Lewis.

Evening Standard

Chichester Festival theatre announces first Hamlet, starring Giles Terera

Justin Audibert’s production with the Hamilton star is part of season including Top Hat, Natalie Dormer’s Anna Karenina and new play Safe Space

The Guardian - UK

Dr Strangelove review – Steve Coogan scores a quadruple cold war coup

Adding a fourth role to Peter Sellers’ three turns in the classic film, the comic excels in a fun yet unadventurous adaptation

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Passing Strange review – an all-out wild ride of a rock musical

Giles Terera is sublime as the guitar-wielding musician looking back on his tearaway years in this rowdy production

The Guardian - UK

Passing Strange at the Young Vic review: a rock-gig musical with undeniable verve and brio

This fondly ironic coming-of-age story has style and swagger, but lacks a bit in the substance department

Evening Standard

Power of Sail at the Menier Chocolate Factory review: an enjoyable and provoking cancel culture thriller

This talky and twisty show is brisk and punchy but tries to cram too much into the 100-minute running time

Evening Standard

The week in theatre: Clyde’s; The Confessions; The Score – review

Lynn Nottage wires us into American life with her all-consuming truck-stop cafe drama; Alexander Zeldin weaves slow magic from his mother’s memories; and Brian Cox makes a formidable JS Bach

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Clyde's at the Donmar Warehouse review: a glorious kitchen drama that's like The Bear... but better

Double Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lynn Nottage's new work about ex-cons trying to create the perfect sandwich is uproarious fun with a serious undertow

Evening Standard

Death of England: Closing Time’s Clint Dyer and Roy Williams – ‘We stay current because we look forward’

The final show in the Death of England series, which explores race and class in contemporary Britain, opens at the National Theatre later this month

Evening Standard

‘We messed with some heads’: Roy Williams on tackling a torn nation in Death of England

As his series co-created with Clint Dyer continues at the National Theatre, the playwright revisits how a Guardian microplay about sport led to a panorama of Britain in tumult

The Guardian - UK

The Lehman Trilogy’s Michael Balogun on his extraordinary journey from prison to starring in the West End

Following an ‘epiphany’ while serving a prison sentence, Balogun decided to pursue a career in acting - and became a star. Now he is about to open in an acclaimed play in the West End

Evening Standard

The week in theatre: Othello; Baghdaddy – review

Opposite Giles Terera’s dynamic yet vulnerable Othello, Rosy McEwen’s forthright Desdemona is a revelation

The Guardian - UK

The Week on Stage: From Othello to Vardy v Rooney

A guide to the week’s theatre

The Independent UK

Othello at the National Theatre review - Giles Terera shines in this powerful, brutal staging

Almost everything in Clint Dyer’s production is harsh and stark

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The week in theatre: Blues for an Alabama Sky; The Crucible; Dido’s Bar – review

Thirties Harlem is vibrantly alive at the National, while mob rule meets Little House on the Prairie in an assured revival of The Crucible. Elsewhere, a night on the tiles in Carthage

The Guardian - UK

Blues for an Alabama Sky review – Harlem renaissance drama is a tale for our times

A group of friends in 1930s New York pursue diverging dreams in a transfixing production of Pearl Cleage’s play directed by Lynette Linton

Evening Standard

Blues for an Alabama Sky at the National Theatre review: deliciously funny and deeply affecting

Lynette Linton’s beautiful, light-footed production is a bittersweet delight

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‘My worst nightmare and my biggest dream!’ The Olivier awards’ best quotes

Host Jason Manford, Cabaret stars Jessie Buckley and Eddie Redmayne, and a host of other presenters and winners gave some candid speeches at the ceremony

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The Meaning of Zong review – a masterful meditation on the legacy of slavery

Giles Terera’s lyrical and inventive drama about a brutal episode in British history brims with urgency, pain and triumphant pride

The Guardian - UK

‘It was shameful I didn’t know about it’: Hamilton’s Giles Terera on the Zong massacre

The Olivier-winning actor is starring in his own play about a horrifying chapter of history and the fight to abolish slavery. He reflects on the resistance to making the story heard

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