talking points
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The much-loved actor has conquered much of British culture, moving from radio to TV to comedy and drama
from the archive
pictures & video
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From a play inspired by Edward Snowden to an opera about Anna Nicole Smith, Miriam Buether’s stage designs always astonish audiences
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This year’s Manchester international festival features a gig-theatre show exploring how the US civil war created a cotton famine which caused catastrophe for Lancashire’s mills
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The biblical sorceress dances across two of Britain’s stages this summer, in shows at the National and the RSC. Explore past versions of the story
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A new production of Alan Bennett’s Forty Years On has Richard Wilson playing the headmaster. Take a look at theatre’s best school staff through the years
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Twenty-five years after it was first staged in London, Tony Kushner’s inventive play about the Aids crisis is back. The cast includes Nathan Lane, Andrew Garfield, Russell Tovey and Denise Gough
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Writer Frank Cottrell-Boyce and director Carl Hunter reimagine Shakespeare’s late tragedy in an otherwordly film set amongst the statues of Antony Gormley’s installation Another Place on Crosby beach in Liverpool
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