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Theatre
Theatre’s plague year
A delicate ecosystem has been disrupted. The effects are dire
Gemma Bodinetz
Theatre
Infectious enthusiasms
Hard times on stage—and off it
Mark Lawson
Theatre
Honour and courage
Tom Stoppard’s roots and Caryl Churchill’s dystopia
Mark Lawson
Theatre
Special affects
The National finds a niche in staging literary adaptations while Shakespeare returns to school in the Donmar's Teenage Dick
Mark Lawson
Theatre
Pulling the trigger
The Royal Shakespeare Company tames the Shrew
Mark Lawson
Theatre
Jane Austen plus Doctor Who
A play based on the unfinished The Watsons has a familiar setting but takes a turn into existential crisis
Kirsty Lang
Theatre
Ibsen perplexed
Why modernise old plays when their message is already topical?
Mark Lawson
Theatre
Verbal warfare
State of the nation plays like 1980s-set Hansard now have to compete with extraordinary real life drama
Kirsty Lang
Theatre
Playing the Wall game
Ella Hickson’s new play is a clever—and technically inventive—portrayal of East Germany in the 1960s
Anne McElvoy
Theatre
Miller’s tales and Nordic gloom
Willy Loman is back in town, still pursuing the American dream, while Ibsen’s unhappy ghosts return too
Anne McElvoy
Theatre
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Underrated: Abroad
The ravenous longing for the infinite possibilities of “otherwhere”
Stephen Bayley
Underrated
The king of cakes
"Yuletide revels were designed to see you through the dark days — and how dark they seem today"
Carolyn Hart
Food
A tripod in the sky
The view from above
Christian House
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