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The Guardian view on Christmas shows: they are fairy tales for our times

From Ballet Shoes to Wicked, stories of female empowerment and friendship are triumphing on stage and screen

The Guardian - UK

Ballet Shoes review – an elegant Christmas cracker of a show

Noel Streatfeild’s classic about three adopted sisters who go to stage school is spirited, spiky and spectacular

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Ballet Shoes at the National Theatre review: Bravo – this superlative adaptation never puts a foot wrong

5/5 This wonderful show is suffused with gung-ho spirit, exuberance and larky wit

Evening Standard

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Indie films losing out to obsession with bankable stars, says Richard Eyre

British director whose career is being celebrated at the BFI says creative industry increasingly wants safe bets

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Rochelle Stevens obituary

Other lives: Literary agent who showed as much care and dedication for smaller passion projects as she did for commercial big hitters

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The Importance of Being Earnest at the National Theatre review: Ncuti Gatwa stars in a fizzing production

4/5 Expect Bridgerton-style colourblind casting and sexual fluidity in this radical reinvention of a 19th-century classic

Evening Standard

The Importance of Being Earnest review – Ncuti Gatwa leads a Wilde party of irresistible anarchic charm

Gatwa’s Algernon brings delightful mischief to a high-camp production pointing up the classic Victorian comedy’s subversive queerness

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It’s the best show of the year – but Christmas performances shouldn’t be the only theatre at school

You’ll never find an audience or a cast more invested than at a seasonal show, where kids find their feet in front of you. But performing arts provision for the youngest is in peril

The Guardian - UK

Timothy West obituary

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The importance of freeing Earnest – without bursting Oscar Wilde’s ‘delicate bubble of fancy’

The 1895 comedy has been staged with age-blind and all-male casts and even David Suchet as Lady Bracknell. Now reinvented again, at the National Theatre, the trick is to be seriously funny

The Guardian - UK

Sharon D Clarke: ‘When I first started being seen for TV roles it was just endless nurses’

The actor on playing Lady Bracknell at the National, the groundbreaking gay love story of Mr Loverman, and getting married on stage

The Guardian - UK

David Oyelowo: ‘Like a lot of immigrants, my dad was all about work, work, work’

THE SATURDAY INTERVIEW: The Golden Globe-winning actor and star of ‘Selma’ is currently tearing up the National Theatre stage in ‘Coriolanus’. But it’s a rare trip back home for the British-Nigerian actor who made his name in ‘Spooks’ but was forced moved to America in 2007 because of his struggle…

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Maggie Smith: the magisterial star of Harry Potter and Downton had the courage and talent to do absolutely everything

The real-life dame and on-screen dowager countess, who has died aged 89, earned fame in her 70s and 80s for blockbuster roles. But her early work at the National Theatre marked her out as a talent for the ages

The Guardian - UK

Maggie Smith, Oscar-winning star of stage and screen, dies aged 89

In a career that began in the 1950s, her roles ranged from Desdemona to Miss Jean Brodie, Virginia Woolf and Minerva McGonagall

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Coriolanus review: Blockbuster Shakespeare with David Oyelowo on formidable form

Lyndsey Turner’s production sounds a warning about the dangers of elitism, with contemporary debates about monuments and stolen treasures the backdrop of her confident production

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National Theatre announces UK premiere of final musical by Stephen Sondheim

Rosamund Pike will also make her National Theatre debut

The Guardian - UK

War Horse review – still one of British theatre’s most phenomenal creations

The original magic that made the play the most successful in the National Theatre’s history still holds, with its visceral impact perhaps now more relevant than ever

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Cleo Sylvestre obituary

Pioneering British actor and first black woman to take a leading role at the National Theatre

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From Persia with love: the new one-woman play that’s good enough to eat

When Atoosa Sepehr fled Iran overnight for a new life in London, family recipes helped her stave off homesickness. Now her story has been turned into a drama – with mouthwatering onstage cooking

Evening Standard

Peanut Butter & Blueberries at the Kiln Theatre review: a gentle, elegantly plotted love story

This is Indhu Rubasingham’s last production before she heads to the National Theatre – a promising indication of things to come

The Guardian - UK

‘We went bankrupt and had to set up the explosives ourselves’: Ian McKellen and Richard Loncraine on making Richard III

‘The movie changed my life,’ says McKellen of the 1995 film. ‘If Bryan Singer hadn't seen it, he would never have asked me to be in X-Men’

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‘It’s the talent pipeline’: inside the National Theatre’s hit-making hothouse

Where does the National send up-and-coming playwrights to have their ideas honed, pulled apart, rebuilt – and turned into dramatic dynamite? Our writer is granted rare access to the hallowed confines of ‘the Studio’

Evening Standard

National Theatre's Clint Dyer: Theatre should explore our nation's past and present – so we can look to the future

The theatremaker on his state-of-the-nation trilogy, which allows us to reflect on who we are today in the wake of so much dissatisfaction — but with a few laughs too...

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O, Canada! The Bard is ribbed and revered at Ontario’s Stratford festival

The side-splitting Something Rotten! fondly mocks Shakespeare and musicals at the annual arts jamboree celebrated for both. It is a witty accompaniment to fresh takes on Romeo and Juliet, Twelfth Night and Cymbeline

Evening Standard

Things to do in London this weekend (June 21 – 23)

From a new French restaurant in Covent Garden to a hardcore gig in Hackney, Mike Daw has everything to eat, see, drink and do this weekend

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