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Elvis Costello songs to feature in play by Girl from the North Country’s Conor McPherson, directed by Rupert Goold at Almeida theatre

It’s a dream team: the creator of the 1982 BBC series and the writer of Sherwood. The pair meet in Liverpool to discuss putting Yosser and the lads on stage in a new era of economic desperation

Our upper chamber has become a national embarrassment. Why not fill it with representatives from local councils?

Since 1966, the England men’s football team has had an unerring ability to dash a nation’s dreams, said Andrzej Lukowski in Time Out. So a play about the squad’s supposed “resurrection” under manager Gareth Southgate feels “potentially hubristic” – and at risk of “dangerously overhyping a gifted man who still…

Joseph Fiennes scores as Gareth Southgate in a rousing football drama; Lily Allen glimmers in a low-voltage Martin McDonagh revival; and a musical Third Man hits a bum note

Theatre audiences are gripped by James Graham’s story of Gareth Southgate’s team, and the first Ashes Test was almost unwatchably tense

The show proved a hit with viewers when the first season aired last year

The Nottingham playmaker takes on the England football team’s recent highs and lows in a brilliant fusion of sport and art

National Theatre, LondonIt’s a game of two halves, but James Graham’s dramatisation of Southgate rescuing a languishing England team delivers tension and movement