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Standard Theatre Awards winner Cate Blanchett: ‘I feel so alive on stage’
by News Roomby News Room“Theatre is a hybrid form, a mad-bastard form that begs, borrows and steals from everywhere — formally and narratively,” she says. “It’s porous and not remotely sacred. It’s why I…
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Standard Theatre Awards winner Hayley Atwell: ‘Winning for Shakespeare feels important’
by News Roomby News RoomAtwell, 42, and her friend Tom Hiddleston played the warring lovers Beatrice and Benedick — she beady and intelligent, he a vain manchild (the production even acknowledged the pair’s shared…
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Stephen Fry on his Standard Theatre Award: ‘Being in a play is extraordinary’
by News Roomby News RoomThis is the sort of gold you get when you talk to Fry. “As I got older, I discovered more about Oscar and more about myself and just felt this…
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Teenage Cancer Trust Comedy Night at the Royal Albert Hall review: fizzing with comedic talent
by News Roomby News RoomSelf-styled ray of sleet Jack Dee closed the half with an impeccable pocket-sized packet of whinges. Why, for starters, were we all out on Tuesday night, “one of the seven…
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Consumed at Park Theatre review: an uneven Irish comedy with obsidian-black humour
by News Roomby News RoomBut Lily Arnold’s set is a problem. I know what a hoarder’s house looks like and believe me this doesn’t come close. Though Irvine imbues Gilly with an impressively unnerving…
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The London Standard Theatre Awards: Rachel Zegler, Cate Banchett among the winners
by News Roomby News RoomThe stars came out for this year’s edition of the historic Standard Theatre Awards
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Summerfolk review: A stunning ensemble bring Gorky’s satire to life
by News Roomby News RoomThis sumptuous, bittersweet slice of turn-of-the-20th-century Russian life is just the sort of thing the Olivier stage was built for. Director Robert Hastie has assembled a stunning acting ensemble, bringing…
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R.O.I at Hampstead Theatre Downstairs review: fast-talking, big thinking
by News Roomby News RoomAnd yet, I was thoroughly entertained and provoked throughout every fast-talking, big-thinking moment of this, even the bizarre interlude when the three main characters bond over a version of a…
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“Aether is a play about the unknown, and has multiple narratives colliding and entangling with this ensemble of particles,” Howlett begins, talking a mile a minute because quites simply, the…