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Tobias Menzies on starring at the National and how playing Prince Philip in The Crown made him a leading man

The actor, who has also been in Rome, Game of Thrones and Outlander, on his latest stage role in The Other Place, a look at post-Brexit England

Evening Standard

Jude Bellingham added to BBC’s Dear England adaptation after last-minute bicycle kick goal

Playwright James Graham says the length and ending of the BBC version will depend on England’s performance at Euro 2024

The Independent UK

Cold War at Almeida Theatre review: Pawel Pawlikowski’s doomed love story, brilliantly translated to the stage

Mulled wine and festive cheer? Forget about it, and see this bleak postwar love story unfold instead

Evening Standard

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The best theatre to stream this month: That Face, Macbeth and Dance Umbrella

Our roundup of stage shows to watch at home includes a revival of Polly Stenham’s debut play, London’s international dance festival and Patrick Stewart suffering toil and trouble

The Guardian - UK

Oscar-nominated romance Cold War to have major London stage adaptation

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

The Guardian - UK

Dear England review: James Graham ‘hits the back of the net’ once again

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…

The Week

The week in theatre: Dear England; The Pillowman; The Third Man – review

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

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Safe pair of hands or time for a shakeup: who’s going to get the biggest job in UK theatre?

After Rufus Norris’s departure from the National Theatre, who is most likely to be the London powerhouse’s next artistic director? We look at eight potential candidates

The Guardian - UK

‘I want it to feel quite feral’: Rebecca Frecknall on staging Romeo and Juliet

From Cabaret to Streetcar, the West End’s hottest director Rebecca Frecknall has a reputation for finding leads who put bums on seats. ‘I just go on my gut,’ she says

The Guardian - UK

Olivier awards toast the screen stars storming it on stage

Normal People’s Paul Mescal and Killing Eve’s Jodie Comer took acting prizes at the ceremony while the Almeida’s success shows Rupert Goold has a winning formula

The Guardian - UK

Streetcar director Rebecca Frecknall: ‘I thought Paul Mescal was too young for Stanley but Brando was only 27’

Since her breakthrough show in 2018, Frecknall has gone from being virtually unknown to one of theatre’s most in-demand directors

Evening Standard

The week in theatre: Women, Beware the Devil; Romeo and Julie; Shirley Valentine – review

Director Rupert Goold and co have a field day with Lulu Raczka’s elusive new Jacobean folk horror; star-crossed Cardiff teenagers snare hearts and minds; and Sheridan Smith makes Willy Russell’s midlife monologue her own

The Guardian - UK

Women, Beware the Devil review – bizarre comedy horror is like Bridgerton on acid

Lulu Raczka’s new play, directed by Rupert Goold, is beautifully designed but the plot – and the point – is puzzling. Maybe the joke’s on us?

The Guardian - UK

Women, Beware the Devil’s Lydia Leonard on the new Almeida show and playing Cherie Blair in The Crown

‘It was like being on Stars in Their Eyes’

Evening Standard

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The Independent UK

Tammy Faye review: Camp, cutesy and hard to resist

Rupert Goold’s production at the Almeida about the televangelist, with music by Elton John, is gloriously OTT and packed with great performances

The Guardian - UK

‘Fame, greed, redemption – the story is biblical’: behind the scenes of Tammy Faye

With songs by Elton John and Jake Shears and a script by James Graham, this new musical about the televangelist has a lot of talent behind it. The creative team explain how they brought her dramatic life story to the stage

The Guardian - UK

Musical Tammy Faye tells gay icon’s life story with score by Elton John

Production opening in October portrays US evangelical star who challenged views on Aids and HIV

Evening Standard

Patriots at the Almeida Theatre review: Tom Hollander stars in Peter Morgan’s cracking oligarchs’ tale

Rupert Goold’s witty production about the oligarch who arguably created Putin and was then destroyed by him is sadly very timely

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The Guardian - UK

The Crown’s Peter Morgan to premiere play about Russian oligarchs

Patriots will open at the Almeida in London and star Tom Hollander as Boris Berezovsky, with Vladimir Putin and Roman Abramovich among the characters

Evening Standard

The 47th, Old Vic review: A hideously transformative turn from Bertie Carvel as Trump

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

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