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11 Sep 2014:Lyn Gardner: After 30 years and numerous versions, I have finally seen why the hype around Sam Shepard's 1980 play is justified. Which revivals have changed your mind about feted works?
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12 Sep 2014: Kenneth Lonergan’s breakout play revived with three young stars in a cruel to be kind portrayal of disillusioned adolescence
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12 Sep 2014: Becky Mode’s comedy about an out-of-work actor manning the phones in a New York restaurant delivers a virtuoso display of character switching – but not much more, writes Lyn Gardner -
12 Sep 2014: Tim Pigott-Smith gives the performance of his career in Mike Bartlett’s intelligent meditation on the pressures and purpose of monarchy today, writes Michael Billington
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12 Sep 2014: Brisbane’s La Boite and Sydney’s Belvoir St theatres tackle Henrik Ibsen’s seminal feminist play and arrive at the same conclusion
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11 Sep 2014: Paul Miller gets off to a fine start as the Orange Tree’s new director with this intense version of Lawrence’s hard-hitting working-class tragedy, writes Michael Billington
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11 Sep 2014: Michael Billington: This powerful production with Niamh Cusack is a stark portrait of a divided house and country
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11 Sep 2014: This searing staging of Sam Shepard’s play tackles the violence between two misfit brothers head-on, writes Lyn Gardner
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10 Sep 2014: A heartfelt take on the Barry Hines’s classic has its moments, but the impact of the story is diluted by a lack of pace and focus, writes Lyn Gardner
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10 Sep 2014: Stuffed with gags and overflowing with an easygoing, laid-back liberalism, this comedy about a vinyl-shop owner fighting developers has the feel of a stonking hit, writes Michael Billington
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10 Sep 2014:
Hot on the heels of Monty Python at the O2, Palin's latest offering is mildly amusing but his bricolage offers no surprises
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12 Sep 2014:Despite his versatility, stage comedy was the natural preserve of a gifted man whose sense of fun permeated his life and his work, writes Michael Billington
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12 Sep 2014: Guardian archive reviews of Donald Sinden
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12 Sep 2014:
With the death of Sir Donald Sinden, the British acting fraternity has lost one of its most esteemed and beloved figures. A celebrated Shakespearean actor, Sinden also appeared in more than 70 films and TV programmes, receiving a knighthood for services to his profession in 1997
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12 Sep 2014: Hamlet | Teh Internet Is A Serious Business | Ghost From A Perfect Place | Home Sweet Home | The Pearl | Out There
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12 Sep 2014: With his songwriting partner Mike Chapman, Nicky Chinn created catchy tracks for Sweet and Mud. As a new jukebox musical shows off their back catalogue, he recalls the duo’s highs and lows
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12 Sep 2014:
Family announces that veteran actor with string of stage, screen and TV credits since the 1940s had been ill with cancer
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11 Sep 2014: Monty Python comedian to appear in series of theatre shows in the weeks following publication of his book, So Anyway...
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11 Sep 2014:
Lyn Gardner: After 30 years and numerous versions, I have finally seen why the hype around Sam Shepard's 1980 play is justified. Which revivals have changed your mind about feted works?
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Quiz,
11 Sep 2014:
Shakespeare saved some fine lines for those characters drawing their last breath. Can you identify who speaks these words in their exit speeches?
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10 Sep 2014: Exciting young talents such as Vicky Graham, Emily Dobbs and Nicola Seed are breaking into the theatre production boys’ club, and bringing new life and authenticity to the stage, writes Lyn Gardner
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10 Sep 2014:
Lyn Gardner: Great translations make foreign productions accessible, but poor ones are a distraction. Should surtitles sometimes be shown the stage door?
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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
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Video
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10 Sep 2014:
I Want To Know What Love Is responds to more than 800 love stories sent via the website wewantyourlove.com. Christian Bennett talks to creator Amy Ingram and actor Caroline Dunphy
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10 Sep 2014:
The weird and wonderful acts calling Theatre Republic home at the Brisbane festival
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9 Sep 2014:
Making an exception to its traditions for the late Tony-nominated comedian, theatre executives decide to dim lights
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