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Fit for a king: Ian McKellen to play Lear at newly rebuilt Yard theatre in east London

Role marks a major return for the actor after falling off the stage in 2024 and is a coup for the forward-thinking theatre

The Guardian - UK

‘A new form of theater’: can Ian McKellen, 52 cameras and ‘mixed reality’ reinvent a medium?

At the Shed in New York, attendees wearing enhanced glasses are witnessing an experimental new play where actors appear in video form

The Guardian - US

‘The one thing it doesn’t have is actual sex’: the new Mary Whitehouse play that would have infuriated Mary Whitehouse

She was the morality crusader who became a figure of ridicule. Now Whitehouse is the subject of a new production starring Maxine Peake. We meet the gay feminist playwright who wrote it

The Guardian - UK

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Denis Arndt, Tony-nominated star of ‘Heisenberg’ and veteran of David E. Kelley TV shows, dies at 86

Character actor Denis Arndt, who was cast in “L

The Independent UK

Men’s Business review – a night of extreme nihilism, offal and frequent awkward sex

Simon Stephens’s update of Franz Kroetz’s stark 1972 play sees butcher Charlie and welder Victor amid knives and flanks of meat, the threat of violence palpable

The Guardian - UK

James Graham unveils AI comedy at ‘greatest hits’ gala for Paines Plough

Playwrights and actors paid homage to the small but mighty UK theatre company that nurtured them, as part of a fundraising initiative for new writers

The Guardian - UK

Sunset Boulevard wins big at Oliviers as celebrity talent largely overlooked

Jamie Lloyd’s revival takes home seven awards including for Nicole Scherzinger but film and TV stars in other productions miss out

The Guardian - UK

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Andrew Scott: sex scenes less ‘embarrassing’ for audience if one actor plays both characters

The Fleabag star, who took all eight roles in the solo show Vanya, says intimate scenes on stage can be discomfiting for viewers

The Guardian - UK

Andrew Scott: our Best Actor winner – 'maybe I’ve acted a bit too much in the last few years'

The stage and screen star called Vanya 'a little bit mad' but people flew from all over the world to see it

Evening Standard

Nobel prize winner Jon Fosse: ‘It took years before I dared to write again’

In 2012, the Norwegian novelist and playwright collapsed. He gave up drinking, retreating from the public eye – then, earlier this month, he got a call from the Swedish academy. He discusses how it feels to win a Nobel prize

The Guardian - UK

Trueman and the Arsonists review – timely revival of 50s dystopia

Roundhouse, LondonSimon Stephens’ adaptation of Max Frisch play about bourgeois indifference to a rising crisis should ring loud bells, but its absurdism fails to resonate

The Guardian - UK

Vanya review – Andrew Scott excels in one-man Chekhov

The actor gives thrillingly virtuoso performances as multiple characters in an entertaining reimagining but he cannot penetrate any one part deeply enough for tragedy to be felt

The Guardian - UK

Vanya at Duke of York’s Theatre review: an acting masterclass from the mercurial Andrew Scott

This one-man take on Chekhov is no vanity project or gimmick: it’s a distillation of his compassion and humanity that creates something new.

Evening Standard

Andrew Scott: ‘We need a bit more of people not liking things’

Fleabag’s hot priest is about to take on his most liberating role yet: a one-man show of Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya in which he will play all nine roles, male and female

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Starry Shakespeare, super standups and a Black Sabbath ballet: the best theatre, dance and comedy of autumn 2023

Patsy Ferran takes on Eliza in Pygmalion, Andrew Scott plays multiple characters from Uncle Vanya and Mlima’s Tale tells a powerful tale of the ivory trade. Here’s what’s in store on stage

The Guardian - UK

The week in theatre: Dr Semmelweis; Beneatha’s Place; A Strange Loop; Song from Far Away – review

Harold Pinter theatre; Young Vic; Barbican; Hampstead theatre, LondonMark Rylance mesmerises as the tormented Hungarian doctor; Kwame Kwei-Armah’s new satire is all too timely

Evening Standard

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

The Guardian - UK

Fleabag star Andrew Scott to bring one-man Uncle Vanya to West End

Vanya, adapted by Simon Stephens, will see Scott tackle all of the characters in Chekhov’s play

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Song from Far Away review – Will Young acts with melodic grace in poignant monologue

The star performs with a musician’s sense of rhythm in this alternately arch and elegiac piece by Simon Stephens and Mark Eitzel about a bereaved brother attempting to reconnect with his former life

Manchester Evening News

Will Young unveils startling new look ahead of big return to the stage in Manchester theatre exclusive

"You've always got to be brave and take on something that will challenge you"

The Guardian - UK

‘Maybe you set the theatre on fire?’: directors on staging the unstageable

Scenes that skip between universes, 100 eyeballs emerging from the floorboards, whole plays set on a slope … The scripts for Constellations, Wonder Boy and other hits have provided instructions to unleash the imagination

Chicago Sun-Times

The Mix: Cool things to do in Chicago June 30-July 6

The annual Independence Day Salute, FitzGerald’s American Music Festival, and the Chosen Few Picnic and Festival are among the entertainment highlights in the week ahead in Chicago.

Evening Standard

That is Not Who I Am at the Royal Court: ‘Dave Davidson’ play is enjoyably slippery

Weird marketing ploys aside, this play on the ambiguity of truth is pleasingly hard to pin down

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