Fringe theatre
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Plan your week’s theatre: top ticketsHarry Enfield goes to Hollywood at the Young Vic, Elvis makes a comeback in Manchester, Sacred: Homelands brings a world of theatre to Toynbee Studios – and the festive show season is kicking off everywhere
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Plan your week’s theatre: top ticketsLast call beckons for for Helen McCrory’s The Deep Blue Sea, David Hoyle delivers an education, Great Yarmouth goes Out There, and National Theatre Wales celebrates Roald Dahl
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Plan your week’s theatre: top ticketsMaxine Peake arrives as Blanche DuBois in Manchester, Maria Aberg’s Doctor Faustus is at the Barbican and the Tron tells of the life of Holocaust survivor Alice Herz-Sommer
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Encore!: the best theatre of autumn 2016Will Maxine Peake sizzle as Streetcar’s southern belle? Can Glenda Jackson crack King Lear? And will Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart beat their Beckett?
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Norris and Parker review – cannibals and secretaries in skilful sketchesKate Norris and Sinead Parker sketch out the desperation of a quarter-life crisis in lurid performance and fine writing
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Edinburgh fringe performers swept up in 2016's political whirlwindFrom the Brexit vote to the US presidential race, the tumult of the year’s news shows how nimble – or lucky – artists need to be to stay relevant
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Edinburgh theatre review – a week of masks, music - and a swiped notebookTennessee Williams devastates afresh, refugees face a treacherous journey and papier-mache masks thrill in a wild and windy festival city
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Bucket List: the play raging against the 'humanitarian disaster' of capitalismTheatre Ad Infinitum’s new show is about a Mexican girl who turns to revenge in the face of corruption. Director Nir Paldi explains why we’re all to blame for oppression of the poor – and why violence is sometimes the only option
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Plan your week’s theatre: top ticketsThe latest from the brilliant Anthony Neilson opens at the Royal Court, Dundee Rep hosts girls behaving badly, Howard Jacobson relives his Manchester childhood, and the On the Edge festival begins in Birmingham
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Church of England sponsors migration play at Edinburgh fringeStill Here recalls real-life journey of Christian refugee in Calais camp who fled Eritrea after being persecuted for his faith
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All the world's a self-storage unit: the show unpacking our cluttered livesDante or Die’s Handle With Care explores our attachment to personal possessions by taking its audience into the warehouses where we stow away belongings
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Edinburgh festival 2016: what to see and where to goThe fringe programme is out today – so here’s a venue-by-venue look at some of this year’s highlights across the Edinburgh festival
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Heathcote Williams: 'Pinter was slightly intimidating – he paused quite a lot'As his play The Local Stigmatic is revived 50 years after its debut, the reclusive playwright looks back at the London underworld, the rise of celebrity culture and the debt he owes to Harold Pinter
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Plan your week’s theatre: top ticketsThe Brighton festival and fringe begin, Spymonkey tackle all of the deaths in Shakespeare’s plays and Ambreen Razia performs Diary of a Hounslow Girl
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Plan your week's theatre – top ticketsHugh Bonneville stars in An Enemy of the People in Chichester and Ivo Van Hove returns to the Barbican – plus the rest of the week’s best theatre
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Herding sheep: why London theatre critics really need to get out moreBudget cuts, rising travel costs – it’s tough for critics to get to plays in remote areas but let’s not bolster the idea that regional theatre cannot compete
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Has the Adelaide fringe festival become too big for its boots?Adelaide Fringe brings more and more artists to the city each year – but as British comedian Alexis Dubus highlighted in a forceful Facebook post this week, how many are walking away happy?
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