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Also on the London stage: Ashley Robinson’s intimate adaptation of Brokeback Mountain
A new documentary adds to play revivals and a hefty biography in appreciation of the Master 50 years after his death
Also opening: two 1920s dramas of deception and disappointment — Somerset Maugham’s ‘The Circle’ and Noël Coward’s ‘The Vortex’
The ‘Luther’ star will be appearing at London’s Young Vic opposite 100 different men
Also on the London stage: Dixon and Daughters at the National Theatre
‘A Little Life’ and other works of endurance theatre are hard work for actors — and audiences
Case marks first time since Soviet era that a high-profile criminal case opens over contents of a theatre play
Also opening in London: Sidney Poitier is embroiled in blacklisting and betrayal in Retrograde
Also opening on the London stage: The Secret Life of Bees at the Almeida, and Temptations musical Ain’t Too Proud at the Prince Edward Theatre
Also new in Dublin: Arthur Miller’s ‘The Price’ revived at the Gate Theatre
Also opening in London: excellent spectator sport in Vardy v Rooney: The Wagatha Christie Trial
The former artistic director of ENO is putting on a new Pavarotti musical as well as old favourites
Rowdy theatregoers at the Whitney Houston musical are part of a theatrical tradition as old as Greece
The relationship and tragic parenthood of Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway reaches the stage
Director Katie Mitchell’s new production is touring the UK using an environmentally friendly blueprint
Also on the London stage: ‘For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide . . . ’ arrives in the West End
Maggie O’Farrell’s retelling of the short life of Hamnet Shakespeare struck a chord when it was published in March 2020 — and now it’s coming to the RSC
Also on the London stage: fury-edged comedy in ‘Accidental Death of an Anarchist’ at the Lyric Hammersmith
Plus: Dance of Death at The Coronet Theatre has bite and bitterness
The Belgian director and purveyor of raw emotion discusses his staging of Hanya Yanagihara’s ‘A Little Life’, starring James Norton
Inside the pain, purges and persecution that have decimated the country’s once-flourishing theatre scene
Also opening on the London stage: the darker story of ‘Bonnie & Clyde’ at the Garrick
No one escapes unscathed in Frank McGuinness’s version of Molière’s comedy at the Abbey Theatre
Plus: Shakespeare confronted and reassessed in The Merchant of Venice 1936
Also opening on the London stage: a drama of witchcraft and desire in ‘Women, Beware the Devil’
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