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As her new play No’s Knife, adapted from a number of Samuel Beckett’s prose pieces, opens at the Old Vic, Lisa Dwan talks to Belinda McKeon about the danger of politicising work for your own ends
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The parody of the runaway Broadway smash will go over your head unless you’re well acquainted with the original – along with plenty of other musicals
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A cavalier meets his match among strong women in Loveday Ingram’s carnivalesque production of Aphra Behn’s 17th-century comedy
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Morris minors, spitfire pilots and ‘endless surprises’ to descend on Welsh capital in remembrance of city’s beloved storyteller
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Being mates these days demands endless admin. Who has time for a decent chat? Still, you can say so much with an aubergine emoji. Kerry Godliman weighs up the different expectations of male and female friendships in the modern world
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Report also reveals ‘sudden progression’ in amount spent on meals by just four staff members – to about €52,000 in 2014
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Royal Shakespeare Company combines with Intel and Imaginarium Studios to bring performance-capture technology to live theatre
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I love theatre and I’m blind. Here’s how that works
Ria AndrianiRia Andriani became blind at the age of five as the result of glaucoma. Thanks to tactile tours and audio descriptors, it hasn’t stopped her enjoying theatre -
One of the first young transgender performers in UK musical theatre talks about singing in the gender-bending first world war show Brass and the support of his parents who are both priests
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Five years after its landmark Out of Asia season, Sadler’s Wells presents a second programme of eastern choreography. From the minimalism of TAO Dance Theatre to the epic Under Siege, take a look at some of the stunning shows
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The observational standup and Last Leg co-host on what makes him laugh the most
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The Australian standup’s new set, Hussain in the Membrane, works best when it zeroes in on racial and religious sensitivities
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There was an outpouring of emotional candour from standups at the Edinburgh festival, but Schumer skilfully keeps her anxieties at a safe distance
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Triple Threat, Lucy McCormick’s Nutella’n’snogging take on the New Testament, has graduated seamlessly from the queer scene to mainstream theatre. But it’s as much an attack on celebrity culture as religion
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She played the loyal PA to Norwich’s deluded DJ and the cake-scoffing vicar’s wife in Nighty Night. Now back on stage as Mrs Bennet, Felicity Montagu explains why humour is a deadly serious business
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Stepping into Lin-Manuel Miranda’s shoes was daunting – but having coped with two life-threatening illnesses, Hamilton’s new star was up to the challenge
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They’re the cartoon characters who’ve entertained Scotland for 80 years. Now the Broons are going on tour. But will the show make Granpaw choke on his falsers?
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Some of the talent behind Jersey Boys and the record-breaking Hamilton is reportedly involved in bringing disco star’s life and music to the stage
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When photographer Loren McIntyre met a tribe in the remote heart of the vast Amazon basin it overturned everything he thought he knew about the world
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Director Sing J Lee and pop star Viktoria Modesta have dreamed up a bold sci-fi vision of Shakespeare’s comedy
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Maxine Peake is the latest actor to play Tennessee Williams’s troubled heroine. Take a look at the other stars who have depended on the kindness of strangers
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Ant and Dec? Perpetual laughter. Boris Johnson? Strangle the vowels. Andy Murray? Just growl. Alistair McGowan and Rory Bremner try and make a mimic of Stephen Moss
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In a new play written for the Guardian, the award-winning writer of political smashes This House and The Vote, goes inside the Brexit bunker as its sweaty-palmed task force prepares to trigger Article 50
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Samuel West speaks Henry V’s soliloquy on the night before battle, in which he reflects upon the public’s expectations of the king
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Jaques’s speech about the seven ages of man from As You Like It is performed by Zawe Ashton
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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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Ayesha Dharker plays Titania, the queen of the fairies, in a scene from A Midsummer Night’s Dream
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Paterson Joseph speaks Shylock’s lines from The Merchant of Venice, in which the moneylender reminds Antonio of the times he has insulted him
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Edward Albee dies aged 88
Mark Lawson on Edward Albee
L is for lizards, U is for umbrella… A-Z of Albee
Portrait of the artist Edward Albee