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With shows aimed at all ages there’s a bewildering choice at Edinburgh this year. Don’t miss the raccoon
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Join us at 7.30pm BST on Saturday 23 July to watch the final night of Mike Bartlett’s acclaimed play Wild, live from Hampstead theatre
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As previews of the West End show reveal its gasp-inducing illusions, hanky-inducing scenes and Harry as a 40-year-old dad, the producers behind the darkest ever Potter project discuss secrecy, speculation and working with ‘Jo’
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The Kander and Ebb musical gets a new lease of life and a kitsch encore thanks to a delightfully playful production by Japan’s single-sex troupe
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Theatre A powerhouse of ideas and innovation
Michael BillingtonIreland’s international festival has shown the merits of merging different art forms while reawakening enthusiasm for a much-reprised Beckett classic
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The actor took part in a live webchat - addressing his love of Noel Gallagher, his disdain for social media and why wearing bright socks is his rule for life
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The actor, currently playing Shakespeare’s villainous king, says Brexit has brought the play a pertinence that is not lost on audiences
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Comedian Nish Kumar is used to making politicians look ridiculous but they’ve started doing his job for him. How on earth do standups keep up with our leaders’ antics and a political upheaval that develops minute by minute?
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The audacious Australian star, known for emotionally open Hollywood performances, proves in Guys and Dolls that she’s more than ready to take on lead roles
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David Morrissey speaks the opening lines from Richard III in which the scheming Richard lays out his plan to turn his brothers, Clarence and the newly enthroned King Edward IV, against each other
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Damian Lewis performs Antony’s funeral oration for Julius Caesar from act III, scene 2 of Shakespeare’s tragedy
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Joanna Vanderham performs Juliet’s speech from the balcony scene in Romeo and Juliet
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Eileen Atkins speaks Emilia’s lines from Othello, act IV scene 3. Emilia, Iago’s wife and Desdemona’s maid, counsels Desdemona on marital fidelity
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David Threlfall speaks Prospero’s speech in which the sorcerer contemplates the end of life – and the playwright, perhaps, considers the end of his career
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Riz Ahmed speaks Edmund’s soliloquy from King Lear, in which Edmund reflects upon being an illegitimate son and plots against his half-brother, Edgar
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Leanne Stojmenov’s tomboyish vigour transforms Cinders into a resilient and exuberant heroine in this deliciously designed production
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A new global study has found standups are more likely to die early than actors. According to Ben Pobjie, it’s not just the lifestyle that’s a killer
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From back hair to a leather trenchcoat, the comedian reveals the things that make him laugh the most
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‘You can’t make intersectional feminism funny,’ says Coombs Marr as Dave, her alter ego. He goes on to make it hilarious, in a show that everyone should see
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The comedian relives her teenage years as a fervent evangelical Christian in her new show. As she prepares for the Edinburgh festival, she talks about preaching in shopping centres and comic resurrection
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Goold’s wife Kate Fleetwood was cast alongside Patrick Stewart in his Soviet-styled 2007 production – the ‘luckiest’ show the director has worked on
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Game of Thrones actor who starred in West End show Doctor Faustus says prejudice towards younger fans could kill theatre
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It began as a Broadway afterparty for guests including Monica Lewinsky. Now, the Good Wife star is taking his confessional one-man show to Edinburgh, with a sappy songbook that runs from Liza Minnelli to Avril Lavigne
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He’s a New Yorker, born to Puerto Rican parents, and a hip-hop head – not the usual ingredients that make up Broadway composers
from the archive
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7 July 1980: It is the first time that the union’s fighting fund for the theatre has been used to save a West End show from closure
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The Swan is celebrating its 30th birthday. Take a look at three decades of shows that have graced its distinctive deep-thrust stage, starring actors such as Jeremy Irons, Lydia Leonard, Mark Rylance and Harriet Walter
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Pitched somewhere between gig, theatre and exhibition, KlangHaus: On Air is currently being staged in secret spaces of the Southbank Centre. Tristram Kenton got a close-up view of the art-rock collective
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The words of a treasured letter ring in Miranda’s ears as she explores her island home in this re-imagining of The Tempest, written and directed by Teresa Griffiths and narrated by Anne-Marie Duff
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As she prepares to appear in the Young Chekhov trilogy, the star of Last Tango in Halifax and W1A talks about playing outsiders, growing up surrounded by white faces – and how it feels to be killed off
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