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Woyzeck review – hallucinatory adaptation tightens its grip as its hero loses his
More than 100 community performers help fill this ambitious modern-day retelling with soldiers, clubbers, salsa, bhangra, robots, ghosts and Pina Bausch-style choreography
Read more » | Desktop version »Beirut review – sex is banned in surveillance-state New York
In Alan Bowne’s play, an allegory exploring New York’s 1980s Aids crisis, a couple meet in secret
Read more » | Desktop version »Michael Jackson musical to hit Broadway in 2020
A stage show about the King of Pop’s life featuring the biggest hits from his catalogue is now in development
Read more » | Desktop version »Tunes with no show: the songs cut out of musicals, from Follies to Hamilton
Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamildrops project gives his leftover lyrics a new life. What happens to other songs dropped from musicals – and how do their creators feel about them?
Read more » | Desktop version »Sir Leonard Blavatnik buys one of London's oldest theatres
Billionaire vows to continue ‘tradition of excellence’ at Theatre Royal Haymarket
Read more » | Desktop version »A is for 'ah well', F is for fish and chips: show delivers A-Z of Englishness
English, created by National Theatre Wales and Quarantine, is a brainstorm about language and identity
Read more » | Desktop version »Quality Street review – JM Barrie romcom that inspired the chocolates
Liz Carruthers directs a sprightly, good-looking revival of Barrie’s romantic 1902 hit
Read more » | Desktop version »Is it a bird? Yes – 1,500 of them!
They swoop, they soar, they light up the sky … meet the pigeon-fancier who has trained his flock to wear LEDs and perform a hypnotic night dance
Read more » | Desktop version »Finishing the Picture review – Monroe is missing in Miller's patchy portrait
Arthur Miller’s final play, inspired by the filming of The Misfits, offers a powerful view of the manipulation of Marilyn Monroe
Read more » | Desktop version »Birmingham Royal Ballet: Polarity and Proximity review – dialogues of desire
A virtuoso ensemble wring nuanced emotions from a triple bill that teams two emerging choreographers with a Twyla Tharp classic
Read more » | Desktop version »In Search of Dinozord review – the quest for hope in a ravaged nation
Choreographer Faustin Linyekula brings a ground-shaking intensity to his odyssey through the virulent history of Congo
Read more » | Desktop version »Rudolf Nureyev documentary unearths unseen avant-garde footage
Previously unknown ‘amateur-shot’ film shows ballet dancer’s sexually provocative side
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