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YOU WONT BELIEVE: Vanya - What They Never Told You

Anora has swept the Oscars. I can’t help feeling that shouldn’t have happened

Sean Baker’s film is muddled, hollow at the middle and about the fifth least vital of the best picture lineup

The Guardian - UK

Anora might win the Oscar for Best Picture and it shouldn't — here's why

Hot take: "Anora" isn't good.

Tom’s Guide

Anora: Why Sean Baker’s sad and sexy glitter bomb of a film was the right Best Picture winner

OSCARS 2025: The awards season staple features a star-making performance from 25-year-old Mikey Madison – who took home Best Actress at Sunday’s Oscars – and a tone that oscillates between slapstick, romcom and bleak drama, writes Annabel Nugent

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Why Anora should win the best picture Oscar

Mikey Madison’s open-spirited performance as a lapdancer who falls for a feckless young client ignites a film brimful of heart, and we ought to return the love

The Guardian - UK

Vanya Is Alive review – dark Russian satire turns language upside down

Natalia Lizorkina’s play traces a mother’s anguish when she is told her son ‘has not been captured’ in a dystopia where words mean their opposite

The Guardian - UK

Best movies of 2024 in the US: No 4 – Anora

The Hollywood romcom is turned on it head in this tale of an exotic dancer and an oligarch’s son who get hitched before the honeymoon turns sour

The Guardian - US

Best films of 2024 in the UK: No 5 – Anora

The Hollywood romcom is turned on its head in this tale of an exotic dancer and an oligarch’s son who get hitched before the honeymoon turns sour

The Guardian - UK

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The 25 best movies of 2024

Year in Review | GamesRadar+ has cast its votes, debated the list, and ranked its pick of the best movies of 2024

Total Film

How Choreographer Kennady Schneider Helped Transform Mikey Madison Into an Expert Pole Dancer in 'Anora'

The movement consultant for the new film shares how she collaborated with the star to craft her character’s performances in the club.

Marie Claire

How to watch Anora

2024 Cannes Palme d’Or winner Anora is now playing, but where, when and how? Here’s what you need to know to watch Anora.

WhatToWatch

The best films to see at the London Film Festival 2024: from Blitz to Nightbitch

Steve McQueen’s new Second World War drama to the Cannes winner - these are the buzziest must-see watches from this year’s festival

Evening Standard

Joanna Murray-Smith’s new adaptation of Uncle Vanya reminds us Chekhov’s play is both timeless and timely

Virginia Woolf always maintained that, of all of the great writers, the British novelist Jane Austen “is the most difficult to catch in the act of greatness”.

The Conversation

Tony-winning playwright Christopher Durang dies at 75

Durang was a master of satire and black comedy who won a Tony Award for "Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike" and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist with "Miss Witherspoon."

WEKU

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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Evening Standard

Uncle Vanya at the Orange Tree Theatre review: Trevor Nunn's intimate, humane revival is quietly devastating

The veteran director and former head of the National and RSC’s first staging of this classic is worth the wait

Evening Standard

Things to do in London this weekend (March 1 – 4)

From pie week to David Bowie, here are the very best things to eat, see and do in London this weekend

The Guardian - UK

The Picture of Dorian Gray review – Sarah Snook plays 26 characters in dazzling, dangerous solo show

Aided by elaborate tech, multiple screens and an angelic wig, the Succession star gives a performance that is mischievous, swaggering and operatic

The Guardian - UK

Andrew Scott: sex scenes less ‘embarrassing’ for audience if one actor plays both characters

The Fleabag star, who took all eight roles in the solo show Vanya, says intimate scenes on stage can be discomfiting for viewers

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The Guardian - AU

Robot dogs have unnerved and angered the public. So why is this artist teaching them to paint?

Agnieszka Pilat calls herself a ‘propaganda artist’ for technology. But when the machines are sold to governments, police and military, what’s the line between art and an ad?

The Guardian - UK

The week in theatre: Boys from the Blackstuff; Vanya; Mlima’s Tale – review

Alan Bleasdale’s 80s TV classic about jobless workers hits home in James Graham’s adaptation; Andrew Scott is not alone in his one-man Chekhov; and Lynn Nottage adds imagination to a tale of ivory smuggling

Evening Standard

OPINION - Joseph Fiennes on West End transfer: “It’s my World Cup Final”: The Evening Standard Theatre Podcast

This week we headed to Wembley to catch up with Joseph Fiennes as he prepares to play England football manager Gareth Southgate in the West End.

Evening Standard

Vanya at Duke of York’s Theatre review: an acting masterclass from the mercurial Andrew Scott

This one-man take on Chekhov is no vanity project or gimmick: it’s a distillation of his compassion and humanity that creates something new.

The Guardian - UK

Andrew Scott: ‘We need a bit more of people not liking things’

Fleabag’s hot priest is about to take on his most liberating role yet: a one-man show of Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya in which he will play all nine roles, male and female

Irish Mirror

Irish Fleabag star Andrew Scott to take on four roles in same West End play

The Dubliner will play several different characters on stage

The Guardian - UK

Fleabag star Andrew Scott to bring one-man Uncle Vanya to West End

Vanya, adapted by Simon Stephens, will see Scott tackle all of the characters in Chekhov’s play

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