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21 Jun 2012: Julie Walters returns to National stage in The Last of the Haussmans as baby boomer confronted by her adult children
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21 Jun 2012:Dave Windass's play has a predictable trajectory, but irresistible charm and slick choreography, writes Alfred Hickling
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21 Jun 2012:Lucien Bourjeily's Syrian-kidnap immersive piece puts far too emphasis on the audience and not enough on real issues, writes Lyn Gardner
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20 Jun 2012: Stephen Beresford's debut conveys the funny side of hippy culture, but fails to capture the legacy of the 1960s generation, writes Michael Billington
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19 Jun 2012: This austere but playful slice of Brechtian-style theatre never sells its audience's intelligence short, with plenty of fun along the way, writes Lyn Gardner -
18 Jun 2012: At fewer than 40 minutes, Prospero's library only gives you a tiny taste of Shakespeare's Tempest – but it's a tangy one, writes Lyn Gardner
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21 Jun 2012: Director Nica Burns says awards' 32nd year attracting strong ticket sales and host of performers
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21 Jun 2012:
Julie Walters returns to National stage in The Last of the Haussmans as baby boomer confronted by her adult children
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21 Jun 2012: Matt Trueman: With every demand for a 'new critical standard', another voice promotes reviewing values that haven't changed in 50 years
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21 Jun 2012:
The London 2012 festival began; the Government championed arts philanthropy; speculation continued over the next chair of Arts Council England
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21 Jun 2012:
Is it a re-coronation? The actor may star as the Queen again, in a new Peter Morgan play, possibly directed by Stephen Daldry, writes Matt Trueman
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21 Jun 2012:
Ruth Mackenzie's cultural programme offers something for everyone, particularly those who think that theatre isn't for them
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21 Jun 2012: Sarfraz Manzoor: Nassim Soleimanpour is not allowed to leave Iran. His play, with no director, no rehearsals and no set, draws attention to his status as a censored writer
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20 Jun 2012:
Two plays about revolution kick off the BBC's Shakespeare series this week. Their directors Gregory Doran and Rupert Goold explain the challenges they faced
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20 Jun 2012: As its archive shows, the London international festival of theatre has been at the vanguard of performance for three decades
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20 Jun 2012: Adaptation of The Count of Monte Cristo put on hold by National theatre 'to give the project some more development time'
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19 Jun 2012:
Actor who made his name at Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop and appeared in the Beatles films, making firm friends with the Fab Four
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19 Jun 2012: Actors and comedians including Rob Brydon, Barbara Windsor and Britt Ekland pay their respects to veteran poet and raconteur
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19 Jun 2012: Indhu Rubasingham, successor to Nicolas Kent, has to cope with £350,000 cut in theatre's grant, a third of its subsidy
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19 Jun 2012:
The ex-boxer's performance draws from a turbulent life including time in prison and drug addiction, in a play directed by Spike Lee, writes Matt Trueman
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