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Brian & Roger – a highly offensive play review: a mad endeavour

As its title suggests, this podcast-inspired production sometimes IS highly offensive

Theatre

Austentatious at the Fortune Theatre review: We’re utterly persuaded

The improvised Jane Austen show returns and it’s a silly and chaotic and wonderful as ever

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‘Night Mother review: Stockard Channing is worth price of admission

You’ll enjoy this old-fashioned American tragedy from the 80s more if you accept it as a period piece

Theatre

Old Bridge review: a striking debut about love, growing up and war

Igor Memic’s remarkably assured Papatango Prize-winning debut recalls history that’s recent and raw

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Mum at Soho Theatre review: Brave and raw, if rough round the edges

This is a bold work that focuses in a new way on the act of birth and the mad months that follow it, though it could be further refined

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Igor Memic interview: Old Bridge is the play I promised not to write

Born in Bosnia but raised in London, Igor Memic’s prize-winning debut play puts the untold stories of his war-torn home on stage

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Get Up, Stand Up! Gabrielle Brooks - your new favourite theatre star

She’s play Rita Marley in a new West End musical, but Gabrielle Brooks has her sights to set on changing the theatre industry inside-out

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Love and Other Acts of Violence at the Donmar Warehouse review

There are three different plays fighting it out within Cordelia Lynn’s 90 minute work

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Is theatre finally fixing its motherhood problem?

It’s rare to see stories of motherhood on stage, but London is about to have two at once. The teams behind Milk and Gall and Mum talk about reinventing ideas about parenting, both through stories and behind the scenes

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The Cherry Orchard , Windsor: McKellen takes a back seat and steals it

Chekhov’s bittersweet story belongs to the older generation

Film

Lashana Lynch, Arinzé Kene and debbie tucker green on ear for eye

The themes of this experimental movie are deeply personal, the stars explain to Alice Saville

Theatre

White Noise at the Bridge Theatre: a full-on yowl of frustration

Suzan-Lori Parks’ award-winning play is stylised but compelling

Theatre

Nicolas Kent and Richard Norton-Taylor on their new Grenfell play

The veterans of verbatim plays have turned their attention to the Grenfell Inquiry. They want to see justice done, they tell Nick Curtis

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The Mirror and the Light review: a magnificent theatrical hat-trick

There are contemporary resonances galore in the final instalment of Mantel’s Cromwell trilogy, now adapted for the stage

Culture

Hilary Mantel: ‘Monarchy is a trap — but I was sorry Meghan left ’

As her novel The Mirror and the Light hits the stage, Hilary Mantel talks breaks with Europe, Afghanistan and why there is still mileage in Thomas Cromwell

Theatre

Hamlet review: A revelatory performance from Cush Jumbo

Jumbo’s fine performance is completely lacking in vanity, write Nick Curtis

Theatre

What If If Only review: an audacious theatrical miniature

It’s only 20 minutes long, but here’s the chance to see a truly uncompromising theatrical voice at the top of her game, writes Nick Curtis

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Diana the Musical review: This shlocky Broadway show’s a non-starter

Hearing the words ‘Jaaames Hewitttt’ sung in the manner of Meatloaf made me honestly wonder if I was on acid

Theatre

The Normal Heart review: a timely and essential revival

Ben Daniels gives a star turn in Dominic Cooke’s moving revival of Kramer’s autobiographical drama, writes Nick Curtis

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Curious review: unfinished-feeling play from gifted Jasmine Lee-Jones

Curious has the same swagger and delight in language as the playwright’s hit debut seven methods of killing kylie jenner

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Tokyo Rose review: intriguing tale is overwrought on stage

The creators of this musical show admirable audacity, but the execution is poor, writes Nick Curtis

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Is God Is review: The refreshing sound of a new theatrical voice

Aleshea Harris’s splashy revenge comedy is a blast, delivered with gusto by director Ola Ince at the Royal Court

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NW Trilogy review: Bittersweet slice of Brent life

A trio of short plays build an idiosyncratic portrait of immigrant groups in Brent during the 60s and 70s

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Indecent review: An intriguing story that has a lot to teach us

Paula Vogel’s play about Yiddish culture, performance and censorship sometimes feels overdone, but tells an intriguing story

Theatre

Amy Adams to make West End debut in Tennessee Williams masterpiece

The Hollywood star said she is ‘honoured’ to be helping bring The Glass Menagerie to the London stage

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Back to the Future the Musical review: It’s enormous fun

Even the time machine’s a triumph in this larky musical version of the 1985 cult movie classic