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A quarter-century after their first collaboration, Ian McEwan and Michael Berkeley have created a new opera -
'Theatre is first and foremost a recreation. But it's not just a children's playground,' Tom Stoppard tells Maya Jaggi -
Theatre Writings by Kenneth Tynan
Who wants to read a bunch of theatre reviews, most of them more than 50 years old? Nicholas Lezard does
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Nov 29 2008:
Review: Apprenticeship by Peter Gill
A playwright's rigorous reflections on a life in the theatre impress David Hare -
Nov 15 2008:
Review: Soul of the Age: The Life, Mind and World of William Shakespeare by Jonathan Bate
Can another biography really surprise us? Absolutely, says Richard Eyre -
Jun 29 2008:
Review: The Studs Terkel Interviews by Studs Terkel
America's foremost oral historian moves from ordinary people to the stars of stage and screen
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Jun 14 2008:
Since taking the Edinburgh festival by storm, Black Watch has been applauded around the world. As the play finally heads for London, Ian Jack looks at what makes this story of army and community so affecting
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Jun 7 2008:
Thomas Middleton challenged Shakespeare on his own turf. It is impossible to watch The Revenger's Tragedy without thinking of Hamlet, argues Gary Taylor
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May 31 2008:
Michael Frayn's new play begins with a real life event but goes on to explore the meaning of theatrical performance. He talks to Aida Edemariam about the challenge of writing for the stage and the performances that have shaped his own life
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May 24 2008:
Michael Frayn's Stage Directions offers an illuminating insight into the thoughts and intentions of a deeply sophisticated dramatist, says Simon Callow
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May 3 2008:
This month, The Birthday Party returns to the same theatre where it opened exactly 50 years ago. Slated by the critics, it nearly ended Harold Pinter's career. So how did it go on to become such a classic, asks Michael Billington
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Apr 5 2008:
A life in theatre: For 50 years, writer and director Peter Gill has both railed against and devoted his life to the theatre. He is now returning to London with his 1976 masterpiece Small Change
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Mar 22 2008:
Lydia Lopokova came to London with the Ballets Russes, took the Bloomsbury group by storm, then married Maynard Keynes. So why are her achievements and charms barely known, asks Judith Mackrell
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Mar 15 2008:
As the RSC's complete cycle of history plays heads to London, we asked Shakespearean scholars, actors and directors to tell us which of the histories is the most important to them and why their portrayal of the past remains so powerful today
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Feb 16 2008:
In Major Barbara, George Bernard Shaw argued that only middle-class reformers think money is vulgar. By launching an attack on his usual allies, writes Fintan O'Toole, he created his most hard-hitting play
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Feb 2 2008:
James Fenton applauds the art of improvisation
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Jan 26 2008:
Philip Horne enjoys Peter Gay's investigation into the shock of the new, Modernism: The Lure of Heresy, from Baudelaire to Beckett and Beyond
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Jan 11 2008:
The British Library's exhibition of letters and scripts from Harold Pinter's archive is a revealing glimpse into the life of the Nobel laureate. Richard Lea takes a first look around the collection
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