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Service will cost £9.98 a month or £5.99-£7.99 a play and will add much-needed revenue
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Clint Dyer fears industry efforts may not include recognition and compensation for the past
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From live-streams of new plays to classics from the archive, here are some of the top shows online now or coming soon
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4 out of 5 stars.
‘It’s a lot of work being black in Britain’ – Tales from the Front Line … and Other Stories – review
4 out of 5 stars.The experience of black frontline workers in the Covid crisis is brought to harrowing life in these plays based on interviews with a teacher and mental health worker
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Comics of colour are hitting back at tokenism, stereotyping and people mispronouncing their names, with a mould-breaking new show. We meet the team behind it
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The world of standup has been rocked by allegations of sexual harassment and assault – and finally some men in the industry are vowing to tackle it
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Award-winning playwright, screenwriter and director who found success off-Broadway in the 1960s
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Our series of extracts from unstaged scripts continues with Tamsin Oglesby’s play about whether a squad – all women and run by women – can win in a different way
Pictures & video
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We mine the archive of Guardian photographer Tristram Kenton for the great creations of designers including Tim Yip, Rae Smith and Tom Scutt
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As Helen Mirren looks back at her career in a Talking Shakespeare event online on 23 November, we celebrate some of the stars’ regal performances for the RSC
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Gillian Anderson, Jessica Lange, Jack Lemmon, James Earl Jones … Guardian photographer Tristram Kenton has captured the biggest names as they tread the boards in London
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England’s theatres are closed but ballet is back at the Royal Opera House for online audiences with a new streamed performance, Live – Within the Golden Hour. Tristram Kenton was granted access
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Chris Nash documented the work of Richard Alston’s celebrated dance company for 25 years. He looks back at 10 key photographs from his new book
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Tristram Kenton captures the debuts and breakthroughs of famous future faces including Emily Blunt, Martin Freeman, John Boyega, Jodie Whittaker and many more
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I’ve worked as the only person of colour on improv nights for years and found problems – and potential. Now diverse groups are finding laughs a more inclusive way
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Female and non-binary performers deal with issue of playwright’s instructions
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With the industry on its knees and audiences running scared, a handful of creatives have pushed on with planned new venues, determined to rise to the current challenges of making theatre
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As he prepares to shake up the ‘Eurocentric’ Venice Biennale, the Royal Ballet choreographer talks about his fears for the arts – and how social distancing has made dancers of us all
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3 out of 5 stars.