Theatre
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Lead singers of Grinspoon and the Living End share a role in the 90-minute thrill ride through protest-punk and rock’n’roll despair
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Patsy Ferran shines in Stephen Karam’s shapeshifting off-Broadway hit about teenage dilemmas and predatory adults, set around a school rhetoric contest
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Tamsin Greig is a magnetic Malvolia in an extravagant production that gleefully refocuses Shakespeare’s comedy
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Everyman, Liverpool
The classic musical about village custom and community is the perfect choice to launch artistic director Gemma Bodinetz’s new repertory ensemble
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This musical adaptation of Idle’s take on Edward Lear’s much-loved poem is a hummable defence of the spirit nonsense
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Simmering hatred, lust and violence are never far away in an enjoyably disturbing production that delves deep into the collective unconscious
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The Broadway legend’s lovely music-box refrains and mournful orchestrations give emotional weight to the melancholy story of a teenager who was kept chained in a basement for a year
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Director Richard Twyman’s riveting production excels at depicting the racial and religious tensions underlying Othello and Desdemona’s peril
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As the heroine of Ibsen’s psychodrama, a pistol-packing Victoria Elliott rages against corseted constriction in Selma Dimitrijevic’s adaptation
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Theatre-makers are creating personal work that might be hard to deal with but that shouldn’t make it out of bounds for artists, critics or audiences
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The Take That star and Tim Firth have collaborated seamlessly on a show that is far superior to its predecessors on stage and screen
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DBC Pierre wrote in a fever, Frank Turner dabbled in thrash and Nikki Amuka-Bird jumped off a cliff. Artists reveal how they got to the top – and how you can too
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Like 1980s precursors to Fleabag, young female flatmates confide their fantasies in a world where men seem to hold all the power
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This musical adaptation, based on Joseph Moncure March’s racy 1928 poem, is so frenzied it leaves you exhausted
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The singer-songwriter talks about his wistful Songs From Northam Avenue, inspired by one of ‘the most interesting parts of Australia’
Betroffenheit review – trauma and grief shape a startling, disturbing performance