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A site-specific quest gets to the heart of George Eliot’s novel; Mike Bartlett makes a Shakespearean tragedy of Trump; and six young black men find full expression in Ryan Calais Cameron’s eloquent new play

Mike Bartlett’s rambunctious capers with types including Lady Susan Climber and Matt Eton MP are great fun if not exactly stinging satire

Beyond packing as many contemporary cultural references into his script as possible, the playwright’s satire about the rich and powerful is underachieving

This contemporary Restoration comedy is one of Bartlett’s sketchier works

Mike Bartlett’s blank-verse drama about Trump running for president (again) is eloquent and clever, but has surprisingly little to say

Mike Bartlett’s script turns US politics into Shakepearean comedy but falls oddly flat despite magnetising performances

Eight years after playing Kate Middleton in a ‘future history’ play, the British actor is now playing Donald Trump’s ‘ambiguous’ daughter Ivanka in another. She speaks to Isobel Lewis about offensive casting, disgusted audiences, and why theatre actors need to get their hands dirty

Taron Egerton had been starring alongside Bridgerton's Jonathan Bailey in the West End revival of Cock but show bosses announced on Saturday he has stepped down

Of all the baddies Carvel has portrayed on stage and screen, this may be his most challenging yet. He reveals what lies beneath the bombast of The Donald

The Law & Order: SVU star is returning to the stage in a White House satire set in 2024. She talks about the ‘black-lash’ after Obama’s election, brokering a new deal for Broadway diversity – and her role as Whitney Houston’s mum

The pandemic closed the play I was starring in, the last my mum, Diana Rigg, ever saw. Two years on, staging a scandalous new play at the same theatre is cause for celebration