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David Tennant's answers to your questions

The star of stage, screen and Whovian sci-fi was live online answering readers' questions. Find out what he had to say

Reginald D Hunter accused of 'misogyny and violence'

Comedy news roundup: Fan's Facebook criticism prompts Hunter's followers to retaliate with death threats. Plus: Russell Brand is 'double double against genocide'
Don't take the drama out of education

Polly Toynbee: Stripping the core English GCSE of literature will deny our children the invaluable life skills bequeathed by drama
National's 50th: what were your highlights?

Michael Billington: We got a brilliant, kaleidoscopic entertainment that evoked the National's past and opened up possibilities for the future
The Age of Enlightenment

Simon McBurney thought operas were obscure, wooden and pointless. So what made him agree to direct The Magic Flute? Stuart Jeffries finds out

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Mortified: new film spills your deepest darkest teenage secrets

David Nadelberg came up with idea for an experimental theater program after stumbling across a love letter he wrote as a teen
I forgive nobody, Bolshoi acid attack victim tells dancer's trial

Sergei Filin speaks in detail for first time about night of attack and is questioned directly by accused Pavel Dmitrichenko
Lucy Kirkwood and Bathsheba Doran claim inaugural Berwin Lee prize

Award celebrating playwrights on both sides of the Atlantic goes to Chimerica writer Kirkwood and New York-based Doran
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The Anatomy of Melancholy comes up smiling

The Anatomy of Melancholy has been called the 'book to end all books'. But can Robert Burton's vast 17th-century classic really work as a play? Stephen Moss finds out
Jez Butterworth recovers his Mojo

Before Jerusalem, a 24-year-old Jez Butterworth electrified British theatre with a swaggering story of pill-popping Soho gangsters. Nearly two decades on, he tells Ryan Gilbey why it's time to put it back on the jukebox
Blanche McIntyre: from being bullied to taking on Coward

Director Blanche McIntyre talks to Liz Hoggard about her rise to the top and why sexual politics in the theatre annoy her
Strictly Britten: dancing to the music of Benjamin Britten

Britten's music, with its sense of physical movement, can translate into absorbing ballet, says the founder of the Richard Alston Dance Company
David Baddiel, comedian and writer – portrait of the artist

The comic talks about the mundanity of fame, the difficulty of doing alternative comedy when you went to Cambridge, and how Andrew Lloyd Webber keeps mistaking him for Ben Elton
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Connection: a short film starring Jude Law - video

Video (10min 11sec) Two actors with very different concerns meet at an airport and find that they have more in common than it at first seems. Starring Nicolai Khalezin and Jude Law
Theatre tickets: when did they become so expensive?

Premium tickets over £100. A £1,500 access-all-Ayckbourn luxury package. £10,000 for lunch with the director of the National. Why?

Nut – review

Debbie Tucker Green achieves a compelling synthesis of poetry and drama in this charged cry of anguish recalling Sarah Kane, writes Michael Billington
Earthfall: Chelsea Hotel – review

This portrait of the cult New York hotel is far more than an homage to one building, writes Judith Mackrell
Al Murray – review

The Pub Landlord doesn't serve up radical new comedy, but Murray is a quick wit who turns his tactlessness on himself, writes Brian Logan
Love Your Soldiers – review

A taut rendering of Robin Hooper's tale of love and betrayal in the armed forces is imbued with a grim realism, writes Alfred Hickling
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Can a play ever be too short?

Lyn Gardner: Some theatregoers feel short-changed by a short play. But can brevity be a bonus, or do you expect a full-night's entertainment?
Join the conversation with our critic Lyn Gardner

Laughing stock: the week in comedy

Brian Logan on the week's comic business, from news to latest comedy happenings
Mark Lawson's Theatre studies

Mark Lawson delves into the archive to put theatre's hidden stories in the spotlight
MoveTube: the best dance on the web

Critic Judith Mackrell takes her microscope to footage of the world's best dancers and choreographers, step by step
Comedy gold: the best standup on DVD

Leo Benedictus rifles through his collection of the finest and funniest comedy DVDs

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