What's caught the attention of our resident critic in the VAULT Festival's second and third weeks?
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What's caught the attention of our resident theatre writer and critic?
There have been some unforgettable versions of Strindberg’s Miss Julie, most memorably Yaël Farber’s extraordinary South African version. But there may never have been one...
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It’s the final week of the London International Mime Festival and it’s goodbye rather than au revoir because it won’t be back next year, leaving a significant gap in the...
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Simon Stone is a theatrical wizard as anyone who saw his Wild Duck, Yerma (with Billie Piper at the Young Vic) or Medea will attest. Now he makes his National Theatre debut with...
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Spanning 170 years and with a running time of over three and a half hours, Ben Power’s adaptation of Stefano Massini’s play is directed with elan by Sam Mendes and truly...
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Molka

Hexenhammer

The Benefits of Disabled Sex

This Is The Land

Patient 4620

Another Lover’s Discourse

Borders

Swarm

Love In

Mythos: Ragnarok

Walking Cats

Sad-Vents

A Society

The Ballerina

Thirsty

Theatre503
Theatre

Soho Theatre
Theatre

VAULT Festival
Theatre

Dread Falls Theatre
Company

Red Room Productions
Company

Secretariat
Company
Taeyun Kim

Maja Laskowska

Sonny Howes

Riham Isaac

Liv Ello
Zhaolin Zhou

Eleanor Hill

Virginia Woolf

Anne-Sophie Marie

Stephanie Martin
6 days ago

Lyn Gardner gives you the skinny on Sam Steiner's ingenious anti romcom, which hits the West End this month.
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As You Like It

Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons

Southwark Playhouse
Theatre

atsohoplace
Theatre

The Old Vic
Theatre

Harold Pinter Theatre
Theatre

HighTide
Company

Duncan Macmillan

Benedict Cumberbatch

Russell Tovey

Sienna Miller

Josie Rourke

Jenna Coleman

Aidan Turner

Sam Steiner
11 days ago

What's caught the attention of our resident critic in the VAULT Festival's opening week?
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Siapa Yang Bawa Melayu Aku Pergi? (Who Took My Malay Away?)

Project Atom Boi

Jason

In Clay

An Ice Thing To Say

Piece of Work

Butchered

Don't Leave Me This Way

Intruder/Intruz

Caceroleo

All Falls Down

SAP

New Wimbledon Theatre
Theatre

The Other Palace
Theatre

Harold Pinter Theatre
Theatre

Hampstead Theatre
Theatre

VAULT Festival
Theatre

Chronic Insanity
Company

ZooIndigo
Company

Expial Atrocious
Company

Vertebra Theatre
Company

The Goat Exchange
Company

Faizal Abdullah

James Rowland

Remi Rachuba

Rhys Hastings

Nastazja Domaradzka

Joseph Charlton
54 days ago

As Call the Midwife's Helen George prepares to play Anna, Lyn Gardner looks at some of the celebrated actors who've played this much-loved role.
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The King And I

Prince Edward Theatre
Theatre

Sadler's Wells
Theatre

Royal Albert Hall
Theatre

Adelphi Theatre
Theatre

London Coliseum
Theatre

London Palladium
Theatre

New Wimbledon Theatre
Theatre

Ken Watanabe

Josie Lawrence

Andrew Lloyd Webber

Hayley Mills

Liz Robertson

Angela Lansbury

Stefanie Powers

Maria Friedman

Elaine Paige

Kelli O'Hara

Oscar Hammerstein II

Richard Rodgers

Bartlett Sher

Helen George