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Cleo Sylvestre obituary

Pioneering British actor and first black woman to take a leading role at the National Theatre

The Guardian - UK

From Persia with love: the new one-woman play that’s good enough to eat

When Atoosa Sepehr fled Iran overnight for a new life in London, family recipes helped her stave off homesickness. Now her story has been turned into a drama – with mouthwatering onstage cooking

The Guardian - UK

Peanut Butter & Blueberries at the Kiln Theatre review: a gentle, elegantly plotted love story

This is Indhu Rubasingham’s last production before she heads to the National Theatre – a promising indication of things to come

Evening Standard

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‘We went bankrupt and had to set up the explosives ourselves’: Ian McKellen and Richard Loncraine on making Richard III

‘The movie changed my life,’ says McKellen of the 1995 film. ‘If Bryan Singer hadn't seen it, he would never have asked me to be in X-Men’

The Guardian - UK

‘It’s the talent pipeline’: inside the National Theatre’s hit-making hothouse

Where does the National send up-and-coming playwrights to have their ideas honed, pulled apart, rebuilt – and turned into dramatic dynamite? Our writer is granted rare access to the hallowed confines of ‘the Studio’

The Guardian - UK

National Theatre's Clint Dyer: Theatre should explore our nation's past and present – so we can look to the future

The theatremaker on his state-of-the-nation trilogy, which allows us to reflect on who we are today in the wake of so much dissatisfaction — but with a few laughs too...

Evening Standard

O, Canada! The Bard is ribbed and revered at Ontario’s Stratford festival

The side-splitting Something Rotten! fondly mocks Shakespeare and musicals at the annual arts jamboree celebrated for both. It is a witty accompaniment to fresh takes on Romeo and Juliet, Twelfth Night and Cymbeline

The Guardian - UK

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Things to do in London this weekend (June 21 – 23)

From a new French restaurant in Covent Garden to a hardcore gig in Hackney, Mike Daw has everything to eat, see, drink and do this weekend

Evening Standard

Playwright James Graham: ‘We’re still living in Thatcher’s country’

As his stage adaptation of ‘Boys from the Blackstuff’ transfers from the National to the West End, Britain’s leading political playwright – and busiest writer in the country – talks politics, football, Harvey Weinstein and work addiction with Ellie Harrison

The Independent UK

Jodie Whittaker returns to London stage to play The Duchess

The Doctor Who star’s performance coincides with David Tennant’s Macbeth and Ncuti Gatwa appearing in The Importance of Being Earnest

The Guardian - UK

London’s queer creatives: ‘We feel unsupported by the bastions of creativity like the National Theatre'

With a summer full of LGBTQIA+ projects in our theatres, venues and dance institutions, it’s time to reclaim the narrative, says Joe Bromley

Evening Standard

Young Vic theatre announces Nadia Fall as new artistic director

Fall, who currently runs Theatre Royal Stratford East, will succeed Kwame Kwei-Armah in January

The Guardian - UK

Olivier Awards: Andrew Scott, Nicole Scherzinger and Sarah Jessica Parker among nominees

Annual British theatre awards will take place in April

The Independent UK

Grief, guilt and white working-class ‘fury’: Death of England heads to London’s West End

Trio of plays by Clint Dyer and Roy Williams explores British identity in the era of Brexit, Covid and Black Lives Matter

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London Tide's Bella Maclean on making her National debut, Sex Education and starring in Jilly Cooper's Rivals

The actor on how her family has inspired her ‘feisty and zesty’ character in this stage adaptation of Dickens’ Our Mutual Friend

Evening Standard

National Theatre invites NHS health workers to see Nye Bevan play for free

Hundreds of NHS workers can watch the play honouring the start of the health service

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Andrew Scott And Sophie Okonedo Win Top Honors At Awards

Discover the winners of the 33rd U.K. Critics' Circle Theatre Awards celebrating excellence in the U.K. theater scene.

The Guardian - UK

Michael Sheen as Nye Bevan is a call to arms at the NHS’s moment of maximum peril

The Welsh actor’s performance at the National Theatre is timely. Let’s just hope it’s not too late to save the patient, says Guardian columnist Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

Evening Standard

Olivier Awards 2024: nominations in full including nods for Nicole Scherzinger and Sarah Jessica Parker

The National Theatre’s stellar year is recognised with 15 nominations

The Guardian - UK

Top stars must help protect cast and crew from bad behaviour, says Denise Gough

Gough, who is resuming her Olivier award-winning role in People, Places and Things, calls on those in positions of power to become allies for colleagues

The Guardian - UK

‘I could have written three plays about her’: Jennie Lee, MP and wife of Nye Bevan, is celebrated on stage

The coal miner’s daughter who set up the Open University and the Arts Council and was Britain’s youngest MP is the subject of two new shows

The Guardian - UK

Creative industries get budget boost including £26m for National Theatre

Chancellor also announces tax relief measures to encourage film-makers to shoot more movies in Britain

The Guardian - UK

Great expectations and a bleak house: the promise and perils of staging Dickens

London Tide at the National Theatre is the latest in a flood of Dickensian adaptations. Few have captured the novelist’s surreal imagination – are solo shows the most successful?

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