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Our pick of playwright James Graham’s ten best works, as new National Theatre Gareth Southgate play announced

There are few playwrights doing it better than Graham

Evening Standard

The Second Woman: Ruth Wilson to star opposite 100 men in 24-hour play

‘It’s an extraordinary once-in-a-lifetime experience,’ said actor, of show that sees her performing same seven-minute scene over and over again

The Independent UK

Who is Ruth Wilson as she is set to star in The Second Woman at the Young Vic

The actress will be embarking in a show in which she performs the same scene repeatedly for 24 hours straight

Evening Standard

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Our pick of the 50 best plays of the 21st century

The last two decades have been full of extraordinary theatre – it’s a thrilling indication of what’s ahead of us when doors reopen

Evening Standard

‘Once in a lifetime’: Ruth Wilson to star in 24-hour show The Second Woman at Young Vic

Wilson to enact single, seven-minute scene on loop with 100 men to explore gender roles

The Guardian - UK

Wyllie Longmore obituary

Other lives: Stage and screen actor who co-founded an acting school in Manchester and appeared in the film Love Actually

The Guardian - UK

Director Simon Stone: ‘My heroes are women’

The innovative Australian director who successfully cast Billie Piper in Yerma is now reframing Phaedra as a postmenopausal love story with Janet McTeer

The Guardian - UK

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Joyous and emotional: inside the 66th Evening Standard Theatre Awards

The Evening Standard Theatre Awards returned last night after a two-year pandemic-enforced break, in a night that reflected the strength of London’s theatre recovery

Evening Standard

Mandela – a New Musical at the Young Vic review: a storming celebration of the human spirit

When the entire cast is in full, roaring voice it’s overwhelming

Evening Standard

Michael Luwoye on playing Mandela at the Young Vic, his hit turn in Hamilton and what it means to be free

The actor knew the iconic ideal of the great South African leader, but is excited to show his more human side on stage

Evening Standard

Best of Enemies review – stylish staging of a landmark TV clash

The 1968 debate between Gore Vidal and William F Buckley Jr is depicted with verve and feels uncomfortably up-to-date

The Guardian - UK

Play ‘born of rage’ over Asian female stereotypes lambasts Miss Saigon

Kimber Lee’s award-winning drama, untitled f*ck m*ss s**gon play, will be staged at Manchester’s Royal Exchange while Miss Saigon opens at the Sheffield Crucible

The Guardian - UK

The 66th Evening Standard Theatre Awards shortlist is here - and it’s a tribute to London’s incredible talent

And the nominees are...

Evening Standard

The week in theatre: The Clinic; The Snail House; Who Killed My Father; Walking With Ghosts – review

Family celebrations go pear-shaped in Dipo Baruwa-Etti’s mischievous new play; Richard Eyre’s writing debut falls mysteriously flat; and Gabriel Byrne brilliantly channels his early Dublin years

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Who Killed My Father at the Young Vic review: Ivo van Hove’s Édouard Louis adaptation is bleak but loving

Hans Kesting’s brilliant physical performance anchors this gripping one-man show

The Guardian - UK

Who Killed My Father review – powerful study of class, cruelty and kin

Hans Kesting is spellbinding as an anguished man facing up to his abusive father in Ivo van Hove’s adaptation of the book by Édouard Louis

Evening Standard

The theatre tickets to book in London in autumn 2022 - snap them up now!

From a non-binary Joan of Arc to David Tennant as a Nazi and Chekhov in space, it’s one hell of a season on London’s stages

The Guardian - UK

Warhol and Basquiat to be reborn on screen in movie of hit Young Vic play

Paul Bettany and Jeremy Pope star in The Collaboration, which shows the artists in 1980s New York

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The Guardian - UK

Donald Sartain obituary

Other lives: Administrative director of the Young Vic from its foundation in 1970 until 1990

The Guardian - UK

The week in theatre: Chasing Hares; 101 Dalmatians; The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

Globalisation’s effect on an Indian factory makes for touching drama; Douglas Hodge’s new Dodie Smith musical is spot on; and a new-look Narnia delivers deep magic

The Guardian - UK

Chasing Hares review – factory drama moulds its own subversive power play

Sonali Bhattacharyya intriguingly exposes the exploitative dynamics of the global gig economy through the lens of a Bengali jatra theatre group

Evening Standard

Chasing Hares at the Young Vic review: Compelling and timely, if a little on the nose

Sonali Bhattacharyya’s new play is not subtle but has much to say and paints a vivid picture of Kolkata life

Evening Standard

Milli Bhatia on how raving and activism influence her work and directing Chasing Hares at the Young Vic

One of London’s most exciting directors on her new show, how she seeks to leave audiences thrilled and shaken, and why now is an exciting moment for South Asian stories on stage

The Guardian - UK

‘Words and stories can be dangerous’: director Milli Bhatia and writer Sonali Bhattacharyya

Bhattacharyya’s play Chasing Hares uses folk theatre to depict a trade union dispute in West Bengal. ‘South Asian artists have always been here – but now it’s our time,’ Bhatia says

The Guardian - UK

Desmond McNamara obituary

Other lives: Actor who worked on stage with the Young Vic, National and RSC, and was a familiar face on TV

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