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CARE at Young Vic: A singular, compassionate piece of work

4/5 Set in a care home, this is a powerful, empathetic look at a crumbling system supporting the elderly

Evening Standard

‘Frailty and terrible rage’: Linda Bassett on Call the Midwife, her crap-free CV and selling ice creams at Olivier’s Old Vic

Best known as Nurse Phyllis in the TV hit, the actor is a peerless interpreter of Caryl Churchill and is starring in Alexander Zeldin’s ‘Shakespearean’ play about dementia. She looks back on a career of unconventional choices

The Guardian - UK

Thelma and Louise musical to have world premiere in London with music from Grammy nominee

Producers said it will be a ‘visceral live experience’ that makes for a ‘rollercoaster of a night out’

Evening Standard

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Thelma & Louise musical set for world premiere at London theatre

Callie Khouri, who penned the original 1991 film, has written the adaptation with music by Neko Case

The Independent UK

Struggling theatres must ‘programme their way out’, says Young Vic director

Nadia Fall calls for bold thinking as she announces new shows including anti-Trump version of Thelma & Louise

The Guardian - UK

Jane Lapotaire obituary

Stage and screen actor hailed for her work with the Royal Shakespeare Company and for her TV role as Marie Curie

The Guardian - UK

Broken Glass at the Young Vic review: has never felt more powerful

4/5 This oft-overlooked Arthur Miller play conjures a sense of dread that feels apt for these hostile times

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All My Sons: director Ivo Van Hove powers up Arthur Miller’s post-war play with a Greek tragedy staging

Belgian theatre director Ivo Van Hove is no stranger to American playwright Arthur Miller, directing acclaimed productions of A View From the Bridge at the Young Vic in 2014, with a transfer to London’s West End in 2015, and The Crucible on Broadway in 2016. Now he has another hit…

The Conversation

Frank Dunlop was a theatrical visionary and the Young Vic is his enduring legacy

The director, who has died aged 98, permanently changed the landscape of British theatre by creating the Young Vic – and it reflected his own energetic and ever innovative nature

The Guardian - UK

Frank Dunlop obituary

Founder of the Young Vic who later became the director of the Edinburgh international festival

The Guardian - UK

Nadia Fall on troublemaking and inspiring hope at the Young Vic

Artistic Director of the Young Vic, Nadia Fall, tells us about her rebellious vision and why theatres are ‘anti-fascist spaces’

Evening Standard

Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo review – wild horror and sharp-toothed comedy from the Iraq war

Rajiv Joseph’s surreal tale of a captive animal that returns from the dead after the 2003 invasion is bracingly unconventional

The Guardian - UK

‘It went gangbusters’: the play about the Iraq war – told through the eyes of a starving Baghdad zoo tiger

As bombs fell on the capital, a Bengal tiger was left all alone – until a US marine shot it. Rajiv Joseph explains why he brought the beast back from the dead for his Pulitzer-nominated drama

The Guardian - UK

Why a play about a fatal punch has gripped younger audiences and will tour schools

James Graham’s play Punch touches on gang culture, restorative justice and masculinity in crisis, and for the playwright the true story was a privilege to tell

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The play that changed my life: ‘It was frightening at first but The Inheritance let me discover myself’

Roles as EM Forster and a young, gay American dying of Aids in the 2018 play allowed an opportunity for deep personal and social reflection

Evening Standard

Ohio at the Young Vic review: this new musical is an intimate and idiosyncratic joy

4/5 Fleabag and Baby Reindeer producer Francesca Moody brings another Edinburgh Fringe hit to London

The Guardian - UK

‘Those young women were so vilified’: Nadia Fall on her debut film Brides

The Young Vic artistic director tells why she wanted to reframe the story of girls lured to Syria to join IS

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Peter James obituary

Innovative artistic director at theatres including the Liverpool Everyman, the Sheffield Crucible and the Lyric, Hammersmith

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Ruth Wilson on her return to the West End stage, the threat from AI, and why London tops New York

Ruth Wilson fears for screen stars, but as she returns to the West End stage, she says theatre is in fantastic shape — and things are looking up for women of a certain age, too

The Guardian - UK

Gawn Grainger obituary

Actor, playwright and screenwriter who was a stalwart of the National Theatre under Laurence Olivier

The Guardian - UK

An Oak Tree review – Tim Crouch’s tricksy two-hander is still a theatrical wonder

A guest star – here, a delighted Jessie Buckley – is fed their script during the performance in this now two-decade-old revelation of theatre-making

The Guardian - UK

Why are Hollywood stars lining up to appear in a play they know nothing about?

Toby Jones, Frances McDormand and Mike Myers are some of those who have appeared alongside Tim Crouch in An Oak Tree, despite never having seen the script before. As the play celebrates its 20th anniversary, past performers explain its strange appeal

Evening Standard

Punch at the Young Vic review: 'a tragic true story turned into devastating theatre'

4/5 The true story of a young man who killed another young man with a single punch is here transformed into a play that truly hits home

Evening Standard

Killed with one blow: the true story behind Punch at the Young Vic

James Graham’s Punch has arrived at the Young Vic having already made waves for its depiction of young male violence and restorative justice

Evening Standard

The Little Foxes at the Young Vic review: Anne-Marie Duff shines in this tale of a rapaciously dysfunctional family's collapse

4/5 Family tensions, rampant capitalism, excessive drinking, someone falling over: yes, this is definitely a Christmas show

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