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Great pretender: Billy Crudup is a revelation in Harry Clarke
The Morning Show star shines in a tale of deception
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Theatre Review: A standing ovation for the immersive Guys & Dolls revival
Brave audience members can choose to get right in the thick of the musical’s action
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Matthew d’Ancona’s Culture: An Enemy of the People is a very special production indeed
Our editor-at-large’s rundown of the pick of the week’s theatre, books and cinema
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Theatre Review: His films were horrific.. and so was his acting
But Double Feature’s tale of Vincent Price’s clashes with a director is a misfire
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Matthew d’Ancona’s Culture: Dune Part Two is even better than the first
Our editor-at-large’s rundown of the pick of the week’s film, TV and art
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Theatre Review: A fidgety encounter with Keeley Hawes
The Human Body, also starring Jack Davenport, is a confused homage to a David Lean classic
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Matthew d’Ancona’s Culture: The Picture of Dorian Gray is unmissable
Our editor-at-large’s rundown of the pick of the week’s film, TV and art
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Theatre Review: Matt Smith is electrifying in an Ibsen classic with a very modern message
The former Doctor Who’s second-act speech in An Enemy of the People is a tour de force
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Review: A farewell to the ENO
It’s leaving London and going out on a high
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Matthew d’Ancona’s Culture: An Enemy of the People is political drama of the highest calibre
Our editor-at-large’s new rundown of the pick of the week’s theatre, film and TV
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Theatre Review: A vintage musical’s timely lesson
The King And I contains a powerful message about power and decency
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Theatre Review: Comfort but no chemistry from Hollywood royalty
Real-life couple Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker fail to spark in Plaza Suite
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Theatre Review: Bravo for Daniel Bravo in sexy, sassy Cruel Intentions
A star is born in this high school musical with roots in French literature
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Theatre Review: Woody Harrelson’s Ulster American is funny, brutal and savage
This could be the most truthful play ever about putting on a play
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Theatre Review: The Trumpite who came to tea
Frances Barber is brilliant as a deranged conspiracist in Steven Moffat's play The Unfriend
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Uta Hagen: The best – and most demanding – acting coach in the business
While she became one of the most highly respected names in the history of US theatre, Hagen brought a European sensibility to Broadway
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Can theatre recover from the Covid shock?
Nothing has been quite the same in theatre since the pandemic – investors are risk-averse and a lot of money has been lost
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Theatre Review: Want to watch a great play? Then go for a Burton
The Motive and the Cue is just as good second time around
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Alone Together, a tribute to Bill Kenwright
This year I learned the last great showman was one of those people I had loved deeply without ever fully realising it
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The mesmerising intensity of David Tennant’s Macbeth
This high-tech masterclass is also an extraordinary piece of unforgettable theatre
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The House of Bernarda Alba brings a Spanish masterpiece to London
This take on Federico García Lorca’s classic left me dazed and speechless
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Luigi Pirandello: The relentless seeker for answers to the riddle of existence
The relentlessly prolific author of plays, poems, short stories and novels, Pirandello was always looking ahead
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Theatre Review: This Christmas Carol has a chilling resonance
The withering contempt Christopher Eccleston's Scrooge has for the poor and homeless hits particularly hard this year
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Theatre Review: Mandy Patinkin, the Broadway legend going it alone in the West End
The American actor's solo show is eloquent - if sometimes self-indulgent
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Theatre Review: The Queen Mother’s champagne-loving servant is the subject of the funniest West End play in years
Backstairs Billy captures the charm of an eccentric keeper of royal secrets
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Marina Abramovic, Willem Dafoe and the killer opera that’s dividing audiences
The 7 Deaths of Maria Callas is framed around a catalogue of operatic demises
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Theatre Review: No more Lloyd Webber revivals, please
The latest reboot of Sunset Boulevard veers into self-indulgence
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Viveca Lindfors: The Hollywood outsider with a second act on stage
The Swedish actress’s unhappy Hollywood experience prompted a lifelong questioning of what being herself actually meant
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Theatre Review: The Ocean at the End of the Lane feeds the imagination
An adaptation of a Neil Gaiman novel makes for a startling production
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Dario Fo: The jester who spoke hard truths beneath the clowning
Few cultural figures can have combined political activism and theatre as successfully as Fo
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Theatre Review: Flowers for Mrs Harris cleans up with a triumph of Anglo-French co-operation
Patient theatregoers will be richly rewarded with Bronagh Lagan's production of the Paul Gallico book
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Theatre Review: Pygmalion skewers the social climbers
Richard Jones's revival displays perfectly what a preposterous activity our national obsession is