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Russell Tovey and Monica Dolan among stars lined up for 2026 Donmar season

London’s Donmar Warehouse has revealed its upcoming season.

Evening Standard

Met Opera designers order names removed from ‘Carmen’ in dispute over Jaguar

The original production featured Escamillo making a grand entrance in a red Jaguar convertible

The Independent UK

‘I thanked him for ending my acting career!’ – theatre directors on their debt to Tom Stoppard

Carrie Cracknell, Nina Raine and Belarus Free Theatre’s Natalia Kaliada and Nicolai Khalezin share memories of working with the playwright and ‘guardian angel’

The Guardian - UK

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The Grapes of Wrath review: Steinbeck’s hymn to human misery and endurance is epic but scrappy on stage

Cherry Jones is wry and warm in Carrie Cracknell’s revival of Steinbeck’s story about a sprawling clan of dustbowl refugees in the Depression era – but the elements of this three-hour production don’t always fully connect

The Independent UK

The Grapes of Wrath at the National Theatre review: the powerhouse cast led by Cherry Jones is compelling

Though this initially understated Steinbeck adaptation steers clear of pastiche, a melodromatic second half threatens to veer into parody

Evening Standard

Rising Star Aigul Akhmetshina Takes on Carmen at the Met

Witness the extraordinary journey of Aigul Akhmetshina, the ordinary girl from Russia's heartland, as she takes on the role of Carmen at the Met Opera.

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Young Russian mezzo bids for breakout stardom in Met's new 'Carmen'

Aigul Akhmetshina says she’s a fighter — and she’s had to be to make it to the Metropolitan Opera, where she leads a new production of Bizet’s “Carmen” opening on New Year’s Eve

The Independent UK

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Portia Coughlan review – drama rich with secrets and mourning

Marina Carr’s play is beautifully bleak and Alison Oliver’s central performance as a woman lost in grief is matched by a mighty cast

The Guardian - UK

Portia Coughlan at the Almeida Theatre review: slice of Irish Gothic is darkly funny but unremittingly bleak

Alison Oliver is absolutely transfixing in this dark Irish Gothic tale

Evening Standard

Persuasion: why the Netflix adaptation is actually worth a watch, according to a romantic literature expert

SPOILER ALERT: this article contains plot references to Persuasion.

The Conversation

Persuasion: Netflix viewers call out ‘cringey’ dialogue in new Jane Austen adaptation

Dakota Johnson’s lines in the film are infuriating Jane Austen fans

The Independent UK

Persuasion: Netflix viewers call out ‘cringey’ dialogue in new Jane Austen adaptation

Dakota Johnson’s lines in the film are infuriating Jane Austen fans

The Independent UK

Persuasion: Netflix viewers call out ‘cringey’ dialogue in new Jane Austen adaptation

Dakota Johnson’s lines in the film are infuriating Jane Austen fans

The Independent UK

TV tonight: insiders reveal big royal wedding disasters

Find out what happens behind-the-scenes when the monarchy gets hitched. Plus: a Dolly Parton extravaganza. Here’s everything to watch this evening

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Netflix Persuasion adaptation starring Dakota Johnson jettisons Jane Austen’s class concerns in favour of contemporary appeal

Netflix's new adaptation of Persuasion stars 50 Shades of Grey's Dakota Johnson as a messy millennial who swigs wine from the bottle while lusting after her ex.

The Independent UK

Persuasion: Netflix movie branded ‘torture’ to watch and ‘the worst Jane Austen adaptation ever’

Film’s being called ‘a travesty’, ‘inexcusable’ and ‘torture’

Tribune News Service

Review: Dakota Johnson is bewitching in Jane Austen adaptation 'Persuasion'

Dakota Johnson is nothing less than enchanting in "Persuasion," director Carrie Cracknell's modern-in-attitude adaptation of Jane Austen's 200-year-old novel.

Los Angeles Times

Review: Netflix's Jane Austen adaptation 'Persuasion' is a dreadful film, never to be borne

To begin with a perhaps quintessentially Jane Austen question: Which of these two do you prefer?

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The Independent UK

Persuasion: Netflix movie branded ‘the worst Jane Austen adaptation ever’ and ‘torture’ to watch

Film’s being called ‘a travesty’, ‘inexcusable’ and ‘torture’

The Independent UK

Persuasion: Netflix movie branded ‘the worst Jane Austen adaptation ever’ and ‘torture’ to watch

Film’s being called ‘a travesty’, ‘inexcusable’ and ‘torture’

The Independent UK

Persuasion review: Dakota Johnson is woefully miscast in mortifying Jane Austen adaptation

At no point during Carrie Cracknell’s directorial debut do you ever get the sense that anyone’s actually read ‘Persuasion’

The Guardian - UK

Persuasion review – a travesty of Jane Austen

Theatre director Carrie Cracknell’s ham-fisted adaptation misses the naunces of the author’s writing and opts instead for romcom sassiness

The Independent UK

Persuasion review: Dakota Johnson is woefully miscast in mortifying Jane Austen adaptation

At no point during Carrie Cracknell’s directorial debut do you ever get the sense that anyone’s actually read ‘Persuasion’

Daily Mirror

Netflix unveil trailer for Jane Austen drama Persuasion starring Dakota Johnson

Persuasion is an upcoming period drama film, based on the novel of the same name by Jane Austen, and stars Dakota Johnson, Cosmo Jarvis and Richard E. Grant

Daily Mirror

Peaky Blinders Aunt Polly star Helen McCrory bravely hid cancer battle before death

Helen McCrory, best known for playing matriarch Aunt Polly Gray in Peaky Blinders alongside Cillian McCrory, died in April 2021 before filming for the final series had begun

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