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Joan Plowright – a leading actress in British theatre’s post-war class revolution

Dame Joan Plowright, who has died aged 95, was an actress of enormous and wide-ranging talent across a 60-year stage and screen career. Plowright was “perhaps the greatest Anglophone actor of the 20th century”, in Variety’s words. She was certainly a leading pioneer in post-war British theatre’s modernisation – particularly…

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A Good House review – superb social satire about race, property and gentrification

A grubby shack that appears in a prosperous neighbourhood is the catalyst for a culture clash in South African playwright Amy Jephta’s sharp drama

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‘Impish, tremendously warm, never grand’: Sheila Reid pays tribute to Joan Plowright

Joan Plowright, who has died aged 95, is remembered by her friend and fellow member of the budding National Theatre company in the 1960s

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Stage and screen star who was part of a radical generation of actors responsible for establishing the National Theatre

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Joan Plowright was a dynamic force for change in British theatre

The remarkable actor symbolised a radical new generation to her husband Laurence Olivier’s theatrical establishment

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Samuel Beckett smoking a French cigarette: John Haynes’s best photograph

‘One day, I was summoned to a pub near the Royal Court theatre where Samuel Beckett was looking at my work. “These are wonderful pictures,” he said’

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Gary Oldman announces his long-awaited return to the stage in Beckett classic

The Slow Horses star will perform the monologue Krapp’s Last Tape at York Theatre Royal in the spring

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Giant at the Royal Court review: shocking, challenging Roald Dahl play is spectacularly good

Mark Rosenblatt’s fearless script is one thing, but the play about the author’s vile antisemitism is made extraordinary by the performances, led by John Lithgow

Evening Standard

‘I’m an ordinary man who plays crazy parts’: John Lithgow on tackling Roald Dahl

When John Lithgow got the role of author and antisemite Roald Dahl, friends feared for his safety. He reveals why he’s never been one to shy from a challenge

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June Watson: ‘In the 1970s at the National you couldn’t rehearse after lunch because everybody had had too much to drink!’

The actor on the extraordinary second life of her stage career, learning lines in your 80s, and the secret of her long marriage

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‘Peter Capaldi was punched off his chair’: Fifty years of explosive theatre company Paines Plough

From locking playwrights up until a drama emerged to dreaming up Sarah Kane’s Crave in a pub; the talent behind half a century of innovation reveal their secrets

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Cultural treasures in Africa and French Polynesia join Unesco heritage list

The World Heritage Committee has this month inscribed 26 new cultural and natural properties to Unesco's World Heritage List, including five in Africa and one in French Polynesia.

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King Charles and Queen Camilla rushed to safety during security scare

The security scare in Jersey came in the wake of the assassination attempt on Donald Trump in the US

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Jessica Gunning, Jodie Whittaker, Benedict Wong and Jeremy O. Harris join lineup of Echo at the Royal Court

They’ll be joining the experimental show’s line-up alongside actors Toby Jones, Fiona Shaw, Meera Syal and musician Self Esteem

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The week in theatre: Bluets; People, Places & Things – review

Katie Mitchell directs and Ben Whishaw stars, while David Byrne’s new reign at the Royal Court gets off to a cool start. And Denise Gough is unmissable in a blazing revival of Duncan Macmillan’s addiction drama

Evening Standard

London’s queer creatives: ‘We feel unsupported by the bastions of creativity like the National Theatre'

With a summer full of LGBTQIA+ projects in our theatres, venues and dance institutions, it’s time to reclaim the narrative, says Joe Bromley

Evening Standard

Bluets at the Royal Court Review: A complex fusion of technology and technique, flawlessly done

The superb Ben Whishaw, Emma D’Arcy and Kayla Meikle shine in this clever, culturally aware, technologically adventurous and discombobulating show

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Dugsi Dayz: The joyous British-Somali show inspired by The Breakfast Club set to take the Royal Court by storm

The creators of the award winning show talk about its journey to the Sloane Square venue – ‘None of us anticipated the sort of catapult into success this show has had’

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UK arts need ‘rescue package’ to avoid lost generation, says Royal Court boss

David Byrne calls for urgent state support for young playwrights, particularly those from minority or working-class backgrounds

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Gunter at the Royal Court review: punky feminist take on 17th century bewitching is enormous fun

This is a scrappy, hectic medley of violent action, music and clever stage effects

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‘I loved every single word’: tributes to the blistering brilliance of Edward Bond

Marianne Faithfull, Simon Callow, Tanya Moodie, Richard McCabe and Sean Holmes remember working with the remarkable British playwright who died on Sunday

Evening Standard

A renaissance at the Royal Court Theatre? After a dismal run the future finally looks bright

The Sloane Square venue is up against some real challenges, but David Byrne may just be the person to make it the vital London venue it once was

The Guardian - UK

Edward Bond, blazingly original British playwright, dies aged 89

Death announced of writer whose searing and controversial plays included Saved and Early Morning

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Israel does not act for all Jews

A conversation about the effect of Israel’s actions in Gaza is vital

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‘She plumbed our secret, shameful depths’: why are Sarah Kane’s plays still so shocking?

The writer, who took her life 25 years ago this month, wrote five searing dramas that took in everything from despair to love, from mutilation to cannibalism. What was it like to direct or star in them?

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