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Lend me your ears: great Shakespearean actors given hi-tech talking portraits

A radical new exhibition celebrates stars including Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart by combining subtly moving artworks with their own voices. The results are uncanny

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Exclusive: Kerry Godliman reveals all on Whitstable Pearl’s new star-studded series

Kerry Godliman on the evolution of Whitstable Pearl, as her seaside sleuthing series returns for a third season.

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Whitstable Pearl season 3: release date, trailer, plot, cast, filming locations and everything we know

Whitstable Pearl season 3 — an exclusive guide to the new series by star Frances Barber.

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Exclusive: Frances Barber on Whitstable Pearl season 2 and a very special Inspector Morse memory

An exclusive interview with Frances Barber on season 2 of Whitstable Pearl sailing into uncharted waters…

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Going going gone! From Frozen to Backstairs Billy, the shows now closing in the West End

Frozen shocked theatreland this month by announcing its September 2024 closure. These are the other shows not to miss before it's too late

Evening Standard

Dreamland review – Lily Allen’s TV acting debut is nothing to write home about

This six-part, misty-eyed comedy-drama was adapted from a darkly hilarious Sharon Horgan short. Now, it’s paler, flabbier, and much less funny – but it does have the Smile singer in it

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Dreamland: release date, cast, plot, trailer, episode guide, interviews and all about the comedy drama series

Dreamland on Sky Atlantic is a seaside comedy set in Margate with Freema Agyeman and Lily Allen starring.

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The week in theatre: Othello; The Unfriend; On the Ropes – review

Brute force speaks volumes in Frantic Assembly’s breathtaking Othello; Steven Moffat and co flirt with farce; and the story of Windrush boxer Vernon Vanriel hits home in song

The Guardian - UK

Steven Moffat says friend’s true story inspired West End play The Unfriend

The Unfriend stars Reece Shearsmith and Amanda Abbington as a timid couple too polite to stop a brash American, played by Frances Barber, from inviting herself to stay

Evening Standard

The Unfriend at the Criterion Theatre review - Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat give us a riotous bit of fun

An uproarious comedy of English embarrasment

Evening Standard

Amanda Abbington on her West End show The Unfriend: “I’m very polite, unless I’m in the car on my own”

The actress is appearing in Stephen Moffat’s first play, a deliciously wicked look at why politeness isn’t always the best policy

Evening Standard

The best London theatre shows to book in 2023 from Groundhog Day to Cheryl in 2:22

The pick of productions coming to London this year

Evening Standard

Whitstable Pearl season 2 — where to watch, trailer, cast, plot, episode guide, and everything we know

Our guide to Whitstable Pearl season 2 with Kerry Godliman back as Kent's amateur sleuth Pearl Nolan.

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‘I threw my arms around Beckett!’ – electrifying first nights, by Ciarán Hinds, Eileen Atkins and more

The author of a new book about the greatest openings in theatre history asks stars of stage to recall their most thrilling first nights – and the occasional disasters that befell them

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The Unfriend review: Steven Moffat’s debut play is smug and sitcom-ish

Frances Barber steals the show as the murderer who came to tea in this inconsistent production

The Guardian - UK

The Unfriend review – manners can be the death of you in Steven Moffat’s comedy

Mark Gatiss directs Reece Shearsmith in Moffat’s cringe-tastic play that more than stands up next to the trio’s celebrated TV work

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‘None of it has felt insurmountable’: Amanda Abbington on Sherlock, separation and her fiancé’s nightmare fall

After her show-stealing turn in the Steven Moffat drama, the actor is returning to comedy with his play The Unfriend. She talks about why funny women intimidate men, her daredevil partner – and coping with the accident that befell him

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