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Mandela – a New Musical at the Young Vic review: a storming celebration of the human spirit

When the entire cast is in full, roaring voice it’s overwhelming

Evening Standard

Michael Luwoye on playing Mandela at the Young Vic, his hit turn in Hamilton and what it means to be free

The actor knew the iconic ideal of the great South African leader, but is excited to show his more human side on stage

Evening Standard

Best of Enemies review – stylish staging of a landmark TV clash

The 1968 debate between Gore Vidal and William F Buckley Jr is depicted with verve and feels uncomfortably up-to-date

The Guardian - UK

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Play ‘born of rage’ over Asian female stereotypes lambasts Miss Saigon

Kimber Lee’s award-winning drama, untitled f*ck m*ss s**gon play, will be staged at Manchester’s Royal Exchange while Miss Saigon opens at the Sheffield Crucible

The Guardian - UK

The 66th Evening Standard Theatre Awards shortlist is here - and it’s a tribute to London’s incredible talent

And the nominees are...

Evening Standard

The week in theatre: The Clinic; The Snail House; Who Killed My Father; Walking With Ghosts – review

Family celebrations go pear-shaped in Dipo Baruwa-Etti’s mischievous new play; Richard Eyre’s writing debut falls mysteriously flat; and Gabriel Byrne brilliantly channels his early Dublin years

The Guardian - UK

Who Killed My Father at the Young Vic review: Ivo van Hove’s Édouard Louis adaptation is bleak but loving

Hans Kesting’s brilliant physical performance anchors this gripping one-man show

Evening Standard

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Who Killed My Father review – powerful study of class, cruelty and kin

Hans Kesting is spellbinding as an anguished man facing up to his abusive father in Ivo van Hove’s adaptation of the book by Édouard Louis

The Guardian - UK

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

Warhol and Basquiat to be reborn on screen in movie of hit Young Vic play

Paul Bettany and Jeremy Pope star in The Collaboration, which shows the artists in 1980s New York

The Guardian - UK

Donald Sartain obituary

Other lives: Administrative director of the Young Vic from its foundation in 1970 until 1990

The Guardian - UK

The week in theatre: Chasing Hares; 101 Dalmatians; The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

Globalisation’s effect on an Indian factory makes for touching drama; Douglas Hodge’s new Dodie Smith musical is spot on; and a new-look Narnia delivers deep magic

The Guardian - UK

Chasing Hares review – factory drama moulds its own subversive power play

Sonali Bhattacharyya intriguingly exposes the exploitative dynamics of the global gig economy through the lens of a Bengali jatra theatre group

The Guardian - UK

Chasing Hares at the Young Vic review: Compelling and timely, if a little on the nose

Sonali Bhattacharyya’s new play is not subtle but has much to say and paints a vivid picture of Kolkata life

Evening Standard

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Milli Bhatia on how raving and activism influence her work and directing Chasing Hares at the Young Vic

One of London’s most exciting directors on her new show, how she seeks to leave audiences thrilled and shaken, and why now is an exciting moment for South Asian stories on stage

The Guardian - UK

‘Words and stories can be dangerous’: director Milli Bhatia and writer Sonali Bhattacharyya

Bhattacharyya’s play Chasing Hares uses folk theatre to depict a trade union dispute in West Bengal. ‘South Asian artists have always been here – but now it’s our time,’ Bhatia says

The Guardian - UK

Desmond McNamara obituary

Other lives: Actor who worked on stage with the Young Vic, National and RSC, and was a familiar face on TV

The Guardian - UK

The week in theatre: Oklahoma!; Unchain Me; House of Ife

Rodgers and Hammerstein’s first musical is roughed up; dreamthinkspeak amble around Brighton; and a first for Amharic on the British stage?

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The Independent UK

Daniel Fish on his dark new Oklahoma!: ‘We’re trying to deal with violence, injustice, and community’

The New York theatre director and actors Arthur Darvill, Anoushka Lucas and Patrick Vaill talk to Sarah Crompton about turning the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic into the most challenging version ever, and finding the truth of it in this moment for the London stage

Evening Standard

The Young Vic announces Nelson Mandela musical as part of new season

The production promises to tell the story “of Mandela the man and Mandela the movement”

The Guardian - UK

Premiere of Mandela musical to be flagship for Young Vic in 2022

Theatre’s chief hopes production gives younger people understanding of the price paid by radicals in the past

Liverpool Echo

The Olivier Awards nominees, performances and air time

Anything Goes and Life of Pi are among this years performances

The Guardian - UK

Playwright Jackie Sibblies Drury on race, creativity and the legacy of Mary Seacole

The new play by the Pulitzer-winning writer of Fairview links the story of the pioneering Jamaican nurse in Crimea to female carers across history

The Guardian - UK

Denise Coffey obituary

Actor and comedian who invested her many stage and screen roles with incomparable zest and cheek

The Independent UK

The Collaboration review: Paul Bettany is a neurotic Andy Warhol in this fantastically enjoyable play

Anthony McCarten’s Young Vic pacy production is an exercise in giving the audience what they want

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