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Tottenham 1-0 AZ: Europa League – as it happened

Richarlison scored the only goal of the game as Tottenham earned a deserved third win of the competition

The Guardian - UK

The best theatre to stream this month: comedians do Chekhov, Into the Woods and Dear Octopus

Get a taste of Edinburgh fringe, enjoy Shakespearean insights from illustrious actors and sing along with a handful of musicals in our pick of streaming shows

The Guardian - UK

‘My slogan is very simple: no education, just liberation!’ – Béla Tarr on how film can fight the political right in Hungary

The Hungarian film director is known for his existentially daunting black and white films. He explains why he left his home country to run his own film school, and why he loves Chekhov, Hitchcock – and Gus Van Sant

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Turn on, tune in … fathom humanity: Pulitzer-winning playwright Annie Baker on her hippy film debut

The writer has made the leap into film with Janet Planet, about a mother and daughter drifting apart on a hippy commune. She talks about how it echoes her own upbringing – and why her younger self would be horrified

The Guardian - UK

Schlitter: Evil in the Woods review – tightly crafted horror turned DIY torture tutorial

Director Pierre Mouchet’s film is a showcase of economy, style and woodwork skills as three friends stay over at a lumberjack’s house and experience his ingenious ways to inflict pain

The Guardian - UK

Venice Biennale theatre: running from UK immigration and revisiting Chekhov

A welcome glimpse of what is playing beyond Britain, this year’s programme includes a deeply moving drama of migrant jeopardy and an intriguing Three Sisters

The Guardian - UK

Griffin Dunne finds balance between madcap Hollywood adventures and family tragedy in new memoir

Griffin Dunne's new memoir, “The Friday Afternoon Club, A Family Memoir,” out Tuesday from Penguin Press, is filled with raucous tales of growing up in Hollywood — from sneaking into his parents’ dinner parties featuring Grace Kelly and Frank Sinatra, to Sean Connery saving him from drowning in a pool

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‘Reading her stories is like watching a virtuoso pianist perform’: Alice Munro remembered

The Ontario-born writer turned the ‘classic New Yorker-style short story’ into the highest form of literature, by taking an obsessively detailed interest in the people who lived in her small Canadian town

The Guardian - UK

Alice Munro obituary

Canadian short-story writer who won the Nobel prize in 2013 and was often likened to Chekhov

The Guardian - UK

A life in quotes: Alice Munro

Writer known as ‘Canadian Chekhov’ captured the desire and darkness of ordinary life in rural Canada, particularly for women

The Guardian - US

Alice Munro, Nobel winner and titan of the short story, dies aged 92

Acclaimed for her accounts of the darkness and desire found in everyday life, ‘the Canadian Chekhov’ has died, having suffered from dementia for more than a decade

The Guardian - UK

The week in theatre: The Cherry Orchard; Minority Report; Laughing Boy – review

The aged servant steals the show in a fast-paced 21st-century Chekhov, Max Webster’s dystopian sci-fi dazzles the eye, and a campaigning drama is tender and furious

The Guardian - UK

The Cherry Orchard at the Donmar Warehouse review: bold, brilliant and utterly captivating take on Chekhov

Hits the play’s poles of tragedy and comedy with devastating accuracy

Evening Standard

‘I was only able to go on stage hammered’: David Harewood on acting, racism and his new role at Rada

He had barely started his career when abuse left him mentally ill. But he went on to phenomenal success – and has just been made president of the UK’s leading drama school

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Trevor Griffiths obituary

Politically committed dramatist and screenwriter admired for his radical stage and television work created over the last 50 years

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The week in theatre: Starter for Ten; Uncle Vanya review – fingers on buzzers, and samovars

Bamber goes to Bristol in a buoyant musical of David Nicholls’s University Challenge romcom, while Trevor Nunn’s impeccably traditional Chekhov works like a charm

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How Vanya’s set design went from stage to NT Live screen

As Vanya, starring Andrew Scott, hits the big screen with NT Live, set designer Rosanna Vize describes retaining the intimacy of London’s Duke of York's show

The Guardian - UK

‘It’s a torture regime’: the last days of Alexei Navalny

The fiercest political opponent of Vladimir Putin understood that he might never leave prison alive

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The Hills of California's Ophelia Lovibond: 'I don't have imposter syndrome – I earned my stripes'

The actor talks returning to the stage and why Sam Mendes is the Jurgen Klopp of theatre

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Sunset Boulevard dominates WhatsOnStage Awards, winning seven categories

Discover the winners of the 24th WhatsOnStage Awards in the UK, where Sunset Boulevard took home seven awards, and Rufus Norris was honored for his contrib...

The Guardian - UK

Midnight Mole review – puppet’s cheery takeover of Chekhov’s garden

Set in the cherry orchard that Madame Ranevsky is preparing to leave, this story leads its young audience on a tactile adventure underground

The Hindu

Esenin award for Sarath Mannur

He was awarded PhD from the University of Calicut for his research on Chekhov’s stories.

Evening Standard

Andrew Scott: our Best Actor winner – 'maybe I’ve acted a bit too much in the last few years'

The stage and screen star called Vanya 'a little bit mad' but people flew from all over the world to see it

The Guardian - AU

Sigrid Thornton: ‘A constant reminder of one’s mortality is important. It’s really good’

As she prepares for one of theatre’s great roles in Chekhov’s The Seagull, Thornton talks gender equality, death and the innocence of pet dogs

The Guardian - UK

The Fourth Sister by Laura Scott review – the deadliest slur of all?

The poet pays homage to Chekhov in her second collection, in which boredom is both feared and acknowledged and desperation tussles with wit

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