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Showcasing the best in independent theatre, the BBC’s live event will show that the stage isn’t just for Hollywood stars and old-fashioned plays
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Rory Mullarkey’s adaptation is linguistically rich, but Adele Thomas’s production can’t seem to settle on a style
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| The Cheviot, The Stag And The Black, Black Oil | Dinner With Saddam | Dead Dog In A Suitcase | The Stick House
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Nicole Kidman is returning to London’s West End to star in Photograph 51, a new play about DNA scientist Rosalind Franklin. She discusses the relevance of the story today, her attraction to the stage, and how she grew up around science
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Basketball with Woody Allen, a hunting knife from David Mamet, hanging out with Groucho Marx … the legendary critic remembers half a century in showbiz
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National Youth Theatre’s artistic director raised concerns about play focusing on radicalisation of young Muslims
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Solo shows can be an excuse for cost-cutting, showing off or solipsism – but new examples are building conversations with audiences, and showing us who we are
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Despite having to deal with endless locks, cabin fever and chemical toilet mishaps, the Mikron theatre company is flourishing, thanks to its passionate following
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The latest debate in the Guardian and BAC’s A Nation’s Theatre strand looked at the fringe’s place in the theatre ecology – here’s what we discussed
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Choreographer Christian Spuck is aiming to develop dancers who can think as well as they move. At the Edinburgh festival his Swiss company present a new Wayne McGregor ballet and Sonett, which stars a female actor as the Bard
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Performing under his real name, Yasiin Bey gives underwhelming performance in European debut of his standup show
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As the Edinburgh festival staggers to the finishing line, comedians contemplate their cramped but comforting stage homes for the past month
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The Australian standup explains why there is a little bit of her alter ego Dave – a caricature of beer-swilling blokishness – in most comics
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Islands Audiences might ask what the uproar was about
Caroline HortonThe appalling reviews for our show about tax havens led me to wonder if I’d ever work again. But then the conversation shifted -
If you catch them at the right moment in your life, some shows speak directly to you, as if they were made with you in mind
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One Tower Bridge development will be the flagship home for London Theatre Company, the group set up by Nick Hytner and Nick Starr when they left the National
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The Oscar-winner will take the lead role in a production directed by Michael Grandage in spring 2016
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A tale of music and memory is unspooled through a schoolgirl's mixtape in this microplay starring Ruby Ashbourne Serkis and Tobias Menzies
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A politician learns an uncomfortable truth about food-bank Britain. Katherine Parkinson stars in a microplay written by Laura Wade and directed by Carrie Cracknell
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The public struggle to keep in step with politicians during the financial crisis. A microplay written by Tim Price, directed by Hamish Pirie and choreographed by Ann Yee, after a conversation with Aditya Chakrabortty
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A grieving son's funeral speech turns into an elegy for his father, the national football team and a country torn apart by its identity crisis. A microplay starring Rafe Spall
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Three women, two dresses, one lesson about the politics of fashion. Vanessa Kirby, Pippa Bennett-Warner and Lucy Ellinson star in a microplay made after a conversation with Hadley Freeman
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An after-school encounter captures two parents' hopes and fears for their children's future. Anna Maxwell Martin and Liz White star in a microplay about education written by Rachel De-lahay and directed by Gbolahan Obisesan after a conversation with the Guardian's Richard Adams, Sally Weale and Michael Rosen
• An education: making School Gate
• Watch our food microplay, Britain Isn't Eating
• Watch our music microplay, Groove is in the Heart
• Watch our sport microplay, Death of England
• Watch our politics microplay, PPE
• Watch our fashion microplay, Devil in the Detail
• Guardian Membership event: watch all the microplays at the Royal Court
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Are you a titan of the theatre or have the fates abandoned you? As the Almeida puts on a festival inspired by Dionysus, test your knowledge of Greek drama
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Sondheim's lyrics are some of the best we've heard. How well do you know them? Add the missing word …
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Sometimes the description of a character in the stage directions says as much as lines of dialogue. Do you recognise these eight figures as described by the playwrights who created them?
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Shakespeare wrote some of the most beautiful sonnets in history but he was also the prince of putdowns. How well do you know the Bard's barbs?
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The Guardian, 26 August 1974: From a banana-clad dancer at the Folies Bergère to a Croix de Guerre from De Gaulle himself, Tim Murari meets the enigmatic Josephine Baker
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The Flemish designer talks to David Jays about his groundbreaking set designs for works by Euripides, Arthur Miller, Ayn Rand and Ingmar Bergman
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Guardian photographer Murdo MacLeod has been snapping the clowns, robots, fauns and performers at large at the world’s biggest arts festival
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Gillian Anderson resumes her role as Blanche DuBois in a prequel to A Streetcar Named Desire
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Tired of competing for medals and donning costumes for Disney shows, a group of free-spirited skaters are letting it glide in the double bill Vertical Influences
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Couples therapy? Partners play out their relationships on stage