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Theatre


The Recommender: Romola Garai

The Recommender: Romola Garai

The award-winning TV, film and theatre actor shares her latest cultural discoveries

Culture

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Review of the Week: Summerfolk at the National theatre

Review of the Week: Summerfolk at the National theatre

Maxim Gorky’s pre-revolutionary play about wealthy Russians on the brink of chaos is reborn in a five star, distinctly relevant revival, writes Nerve theatre critic Dorian Lynskey

Reviews

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Review of the Week: Oh, Mary! at Trafalgar theatre

Review of the Week: Oh, Mary! at Trafalgar theatre

A huge hit on Broadway, Cole Escola’s history-busting comedy about Mary Todd Lincoln - Abraham’s wife - is wild, subversively queer and riotously funny, writes Dorian Lynskey

Reviews

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The Recommender: Bel Powley

The Recommender: Bel Powley

The actor on her latest art and culture discoveries

TV

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Review of the Week: All My Sons

Review of the Week: All My Sons

Ten years after his first triumph with an Arthur Miller play, director Ivo Van Hove has returned to the American dramatist and produced another masterpiece that feels startlingly current, writes Dorian Lynskey

Culture

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Review of the week: The Line of Beauty at the Almeida theatre

Review of the week: The Line of Beauty at the Almeida theatre

This adaptation of Alan Hollinghurst’s subtle Booker winner is broader than the novel, but still achieves an explosive payoff, writes Dorian Lynskey

Culture

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‘She put food on all our tables’: Yvonne Brewster, a giant of Black theatre remembered

‘She put food on all our tables’: Yvonne Brewster, a giant of Black theatre remembered

The trailblazing director’s death earlier this month was largely ignored by the British media. Here actors Adjoa Andoh and Doña Croll recall a mentor and “great encourager” who transformed the lives of African-Caribbean talent

Culture

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