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Dead Poets Live: Sylvia Plath, review - A refreshing look at the poet's exhuberant personality
A mesmeric Denise Gough refrains from indulging in Plath's cult-like status and somehow makes an evening about poetic technique galvanising
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Forget Hamlet, Falstaff is the hardest Shakespearean role to perform
As Ian McKellen announces he is playing the debauched knight, we look at the character Michael Gambon described as a 'duplicitous b-----d'
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Feeling Afraid As If Something Terrible Is Going To Happen: sex, death and comedy in this ingenious monologue
Samuel Barnett is a revelation as an agonisingly self-aware thirtysomething in Marcelo Dos Santos’s expertly crafted single-hander
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Gyles and Aphra Brandreth: ‘People call my daughter a nepo baby, but I’ve had no influence on her’
The newly selected Tory candidate and her ex-MP father talk politics, public duty and Lib Dem dirty tricks
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Dear England: James Graham’s ode to the beautiful game feels even more epic in its new home
The National's smash-hit play gets a seamless West End transfer with the terrific Joseph Fiennes reprising his role as Gareth Southgate
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Portia Coughlan: a hypnotic Alison Oliver can’t save this absurd Irish melodrama
The Conversations with Friends actress is a revelation – but the Almeida's staging doesn't make the case for reviving this now-clichéd play
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Alan Titchmarsh: ‘I’m terrified of being cancelled’
The nation’s favourite gardener finds himself increasingly at odds with the modern social-media-driven world around him
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Dinah Brooke, the brilliant forgotten novelist who gave it all up to live in an ashram
As her superb book – inspired by a cricketer who murdered his parents – is reissued, Brooke talks about her extraordinary life
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I’m Sorry Prime Minister, I Can’t Quite Remember: Jim Hacker and Sir Humphrey return in a lame retread of old glories
Jonathan Lynn’s final outing of his great sitcom removes the political context, and therefore much of the stuffing
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Joseph Fiennes interview: ‘Thank god we've got one Englishman who can just stand up and be decent’
Fiennes and James Graham, star and writer of Dear England, on their ode to football manager Gareth Southgate
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Shooting Hedda Gabler: Ibsen as a needle-sharp, savagely funny MeToo nightmare
Playwright Nina Segal deftly skewers the coercive nature of male artistic genius while wittily sending up the conversations surrounding it
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Michael Ball: ‘Andrew Lloyd Webber is complicated – but he’s also a genius’
The singer on the composer’s ruthless casting process and behind-the-scenes screaming fits, plus why young actors are ‘snowflakes’
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Ben Elton's hammy Twiggy Musical is only skin deep
An air of gaudy pastiche hangs over this Menier Chocolate Factory production about the life of the artist otherwise known as Lesley Hornby
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The best fiction avoids glib agendas – the Booker shortlist is proof
A strong field of nominees has produced a slate of fiction you’ll want to spend time with – and will be surprised by
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This immaculate novel complicates America’s racist past
Long-listed for the Booker, Paul Harding’s This Other Eden slips into the lives of a community of ex-slaves with tremendous grace and power
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Rebecca: Daphne du Maurier collides with Phantom of the Opera
This musical take on the great thriller tries hard but neither fully honours the original nor finds a true theatrical language of its own
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