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The Burning Tower review – show staged on council estate responds to Grenfell
Helena Thompson’s passionate and pacy drama is a celebration and defence of social housing
Read more » | Desktop version »'Nightmarish' Donald Trump comedy coming to London theatre
Almeida director Rupert Goold says Anne Washburn’s new play Shipwreck will ‘wrestle with what Trump is both politically and existentially’
Read more » | Desktop version »Evita review: Tina Arena is resplendent and tough as designer dictator
In Opera Australia’s production, Eva Perón wins over a nation with a Christian Dior dress and steely determination, and a killer ballad steals the show
Read more » | Desktop version »Tartuffe review – RSC's buoyant satire of modern religious hypocrisy
This striking new take on Molière by the writers behind Citizen Khan sends up religious phoniness and secular pretension
Read more » | Desktop version »Twelfth Night review – trippy take on Shakespeare romcom
With 50/50 gender-split casting, this comedy of disguise and identity enjoys a playful makeover
Read more » | Desktop version »Touching the Void review – thrilling, chilling drama reaches dizzy heights
David Greig finds humour amid the horror in this triumphant stage adaptation of the mountaineering memoir
Read more » | Desktop version »Joe Penhall: 'Stephen Jeffreys soothed you through failure and cheered your success'
The work of his friend and fellow playwright, says Penhall, was warm, incisive, unassuming but clever – just like the man
Read more » | Desktop version »Steel review – sharp-witted political drama from Chris Bush
Bush tackles sexism and racial prejudice in a cross-generational commentary on contemporary politics
Read more » | Desktop version »David Edgar on Stephen Jeffreys: ‘He was famous for his understanding of playwriting technique’
David Edgar writes: Stephen Jeffreys’ legacy lies in the huge number and variety of playwrights he taught, encouraged and inspired
Read more » | Desktop version »Stephen Jeffreys obituary
Playwright best known for The Libertine, about the debauched Restoration poet John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, which became a film starring Johnny Depp
Read more » | Desktop version »Stephen Jeffreys, playwright behind The Libertine, dies aged 68
British dramatist, whose plays included Valued Friends and I Just Stopped By to See the Man, is celebrated for nurturing later generations
Read more » | Desktop version »Tallulah Brown: 'Robert Redford was talking about dragons with our song in the background'
The Trills musician is used to her lyrics being used in trailers but her play Songlines puts her in the spotlight with the actors
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