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• Here Lies Love: Imelda Marcos puts on her disco shoes at the National Theatre - in pictures

  14 Oct 2014: Here Lies Love, a musical by David Byrne and Fatboy Slim has opened at the National’s new Dorfman theatre after an award-winning run on Broadway

• Sofie Gråbøl rules out fourth series of The Killing

  5 Oct 2014: Danish actor says prolonging hit series would be ‘milking it’, as she reveals how London helped her emerge from a ‘dark year’

• David Byrne musical Here Lies Love charts rise and fall of Imelda Marcos

  26 Sep 2014: Former Talking Heads frontman’s sequinned, disco-dancing spectacle, a collaboration with Fatboy Slim, to open in London

• Cillian Murphy: playing a blinder

  24 Sep 2014: Cillian Murphy is back as a razor-gang lord in Peaky Blinders – and a slapstick Irish clown at the National. Fresh twists in a career spent sidestepping the fame game, he tells Nosheen Iqbal

• Ballyturk review – frenzied, incessant, sententious

  

  21 Sep 2014: Some great performances can’t save Enda Walsh’s over-hectic, over-written production, writes Susannah Clapp

• Enda Walsh: 'Pure theatre animal' explores solitude and the void below

  18 Sep 2014:

  Lauded Irish playwright and screenwriter mixes physical comedy and verbal energy to delve into the subtext of lonely lives

• Greg Hicks: how Peter Hall transformed me as an actor

  16 Sep 2014: Greg Hicks: He became a father figure to me – I gravitated towards his brilliant mind, his wealth of experience and his ruthlessness

• Lucy Punch: ‘If the character is smug, trashy or has dubious morals, call me!’

  10 Sep 2014: Lucy Punch has made a career of being nasty. So who better to play a power-crazed tabloid news editor in hit play Great Britain? Ryan Gilbey meets her

• Letters: Michael Kustow's thinking was bold, his ambition high

  7 Sep 2014: Jeremy Isaacs writes: Channel 4 was charged, by Act of Parliament, with providing a "distinctive" service; as its commissioning editor for the arts, Michael Kustow did much to make that promise good.

• Michael Kustow obituary

  31 Aug 2014: Writer, producer and ICA head in the late 60s, he had an instinct for the cutting edge

• Lenny Henry to play Richard Pryor at National Theatre

  20 Aug 2014: Comedian Henry to play the revered and troubled US standup and actor in a play directed by Michael Buffong

• Sofie Gråbøl: My Maoist mum made me confess to stealing from a supermarket

  17 Aug 2014:

  The star of The Killing moved into a commune when she was 12 and the first time she cooked she had to make burgers for 30. Interview by John Hind

• The James Plays review – Rona Munro's timely game of thrones

  

  17 Aug 2014:

  This historic Anglo-Scottish co-production delivers epic sweep but insufficient psychological depth, writes Susannah Clapp

• Manfred Wekwerth obituary

  11 Aug 2014:

  German theatre director who staged notable productions of the plays of Bertolt Brecht

• Nicholas Hytner: 'No one's filling my shoes, I'm taking them with me'

  25 Jul 2014:

  The National Theatre's director steps down next year, after introducing live broadcasts, cheap tickets and a wealth of new writing. How does he reflect on his tenure, asks Michael Billington

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