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All My Sons: director Ivo Van Hove powers up Arthur Miller’s post-war play with a Greek tragedy staging

Belgian theatre director Ivo Van Hove is no stranger to American playwright Arthur Miller, directing acclaimed productions of A View From the Bridge at the Young Vic in 2014, with a transfer to London’s West End in 2015, and The Crucible on Broadway in 2016. Now he has another hit…

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Frank Dunlop was a theatrical visionary and the Young Vic is his enduring legacy

The director, who has died aged 98, permanently changed the landscape of British theatre by creating the Young Vic – and it reflected his own energetic and ever innovative nature

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Frank Dunlop obituary

Founder of the Young Vic who later became the director of the Edinburgh international festival

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Nadia Fall on troublemaking and inspiring hope at the Young Vic

Artistic Director of the Young Vic, Nadia Fall, tells us about her rebellious vision and why theatres are ‘anti-fascist spaces’

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Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo review – wild horror and sharp-toothed comedy from the Iraq war

Rajiv Joseph’s surreal tale of a captive animal that returns from the dead after the 2003 invasion is bracingly unconventional

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‘It went gangbusters’: the play about the Iraq war – told through the eyes of a starving Baghdad zoo tiger

As bombs fell on the capital, a Bengal tiger was left all alone – until a US marine shot it. Rajiv Joseph explains why he brought the beast back from the dead for his Pulitzer-nominated drama

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Why a play about a fatal punch has gripped younger audiences and will tour schools

James Graham’s play Punch touches on gang culture, restorative justice and masculinity in crisis, and for the playwright the true story was a privilege to tell

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The play that changed my life: ‘It was frightening at first but The Inheritance let me discover myself’

Roles as EM Forster and a young, gay American dying of Aids in the 2018 play allowed an opportunity for deep personal and social reflection

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Ohio at the Young Vic review: this new musical is an intimate and idiosyncratic joy

4/5 Fleabag and Baby Reindeer producer Francesca Moody brings another Edinburgh Fringe hit to London

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‘Those young women were so vilified’: Nadia Fall on her debut film Brides

The Young Vic artistic director tells why she wanted to reframe the story of girls lured to Syria to join IS

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Peter James obituary

Innovative artistic director at theatres including the Liverpool Everyman, the Sheffield Crucible and the Lyric, Hammersmith

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Ruth Wilson on her return to the West End stage, the threat from AI, and why London tops New York

Ruth Wilson fears for screen stars, but as she returns to the West End stage, she says theatre is in fantastic shape — and things are looking up for women of a certain age, too

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Gawn Grainger obituary

Actor, playwright and screenwriter who was a stalwart of the National Theatre under Laurence Olivier

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An Oak Tree review – Tim Crouch’s tricksy two-hander is still a theatrical wonder

A guest star – here, a delighted Jessie Buckley – is fed their script during the performance in this now two-decade-old revelation of theatre-making

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Why are Hollywood stars lining up to appear in a play they know nothing about?

Toby Jones, Frances McDormand and Mike Myers are some of those who have appeared alongside Tim Crouch in An Oak Tree, despite never having seen the script before. As the play celebrates its 20th anniversary, past performers explain its strange appeal

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Punch at the Young Vic review: 'a tragic true story turned into devastating theatre'

4/5 The true story of a young man who killed another young man with a single punch is here transformed into a play that truly hits home

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Killed with one blow: the true story behind Punch at the Young Vic

James Graham’s Punch has arrived at the Young Vic having already made waves for its depiction of young male violence and restorative justice

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The Little Foxes at the Young Vic review: Anne-Marie Duff shines in this tale of a rapaciously dysfunctional family's collapse

4/5 Family tensions, rampant capitalism, excessive drinking, someone falling over: yes, this is definitely a Christmas show

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Lynne Kirwin obituary

Other lives: Theatre publicist who worked on productions at the National, the Young Vic and the Donmar in the 1980s, 90s and 00s

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Kwame Kwei-Armah: arts education cuts pose danger to diversity in theatre

Outgoing artistic director of Young Vic calls for urgent government action to redress arts funding in schools

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The week in theatre: Waiting for Godot; Coriolanus; A Face in the Crowd – review

Ben Whishaw and Lucian Msamati add star power to James Macdonald’s thoughtful Beckett; David Oyelowo’s Coriolanus is dwarfed by epic staging; and an Elvis Costello-scored musical has too few high notes

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Cleo Sylvestre obituary

Pioneering British actor and first black woman to take a leading role at the National Theatre

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‘They said I was trying to make it the Black National Theatre’: Kwame Kwei-Armah on his trailblazing Young Vic tenure

Under his leadership, the theatre has become a hothouse for innovative, and sometimes controversial work work. On the eve of his departure, he looks back over his ‘three acts’ in the limelight

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The week in theatre: Romeo & Juliet; Richard III; Passing Strange review – no fault in these stars

Jamie Lloyd’s youthfully intense staging gives us a Juliet for the ages; Michelle Terry’s king rises above the disability row; and the European premiere of a Broadway musical rocks but doesn’t soar

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Young Vic theatre announces Nadia Fall as new artistic director

Fall, who currently runs Theatre Royal Stratford East, will succeed Kwame Kwei-Armah in January

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