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<p> The cast of ‘Pride’ at the National Theatre</p>

Devastating musical Pride is far better than the film that inspired it

The stage adaptation of the much-loved 2014 film follows a group of gay activists who support a Welsh mining community during the 1980s strikes

<p>Sandra, Oh no: the Canadian star deserves more than this uneven adaptation of ‘The Misanthrope’</p>

Sandra Oh’s London stage debut deserved more than The Misanthrope

Glengarry Glen Ross sees corporate beasts lose their bite – review

Tehran-set horror play Under the Shadow is moving and merciless

<p>‘What’s going to make me want to get up in the morning?’: Sarah Parish is starring in a new play by ‘W1A’ creator John Morton</p>

Sarah Parish: ‘Sex scenes in the Nineties could get pretty awkward’

From ‘W1A’ to ‘Industry’, Sarah Parish has carved out a place as one of the most watchable actors on British TV. As her new play ‘Eclipse’ opens in Chichester, she talks to Patrick Smith about the arts taking a ‘hammering’ and what motivates her

<p>Ralph Fiennes and Miranda Raison as Henry Irving and Ellen Terry</p>

Ralph Fiennes’ new play is a theatrical hatchet job

The actor is dignified but uncompelling in this turgid celebration of the past, which leaps between tales of a curmudgeonly old sod and a miserable lesbian love triangle

<p>Adeel Akhtar in ‘Mass’ at the Donmar Warehouse</p>

School shooting drama Mass will reduce the room to tears

Noah Ritter as John Lennon and Calam Lynch as Brian Epstein in 'Please Please Me'

Please Please Me restores the danger to the story of The Beatles

<p>William Bracewell and Melissa Hamilton in Wayne McGregor’s ‘Quantum Souls’</p>

Wayne McGregor creates dance solos that evoke contemplation

Aaron Pierre and Kedar Williams-Stirling in 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is brilliantly funny – but too cruel

<p>Mark Gatiss says of ‘The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui’ that it is ‘like a big sketch ... but there are parts of it that are chilling’</p>

Interview

Mark Gatiss: ‘There’s a narrative telling us Nigel Farage will be PM’

<p>Rosie Sheehy and Robert Aramayo in ‘Guess How Much I Love You?’</p>

Interview

Rosie Sheehy, the Olivier nominee in the year’s most devastating play

<p>Romola Garai in ‘A Doll's House’ at the Almeida</p>

A Doll’s House at the Almeida is Ibsen reimagined for the Klarna era

Interviews

<p>Richard Kind: ‘I'm a big hulking gargoyle, okay?’</p>

Interview

Richard Kind: ‘TV shows are just bookends for advertisements’

<p>‘I had f***ed up by my own hand, and America – certainly professionally – meant a fresh start. America didn’t care that I’d f***ed up’</p>

Interview

Craig Ferguson: ‘The head of ITV said that when I got sober, I stopped being funny’

<p>Doon Mackichan: 'There’s so much gratuitous use of female flesh on TV’</p>

The Saturday Interview

Doon Mackichan: ‘If I hadn’t fought, you’d have seen me naked on ITV’

<p>After three solo albums, Rebecca Lucy Taylor is heading to the West End to play the lead in ‘Teeth ’n’ Smiles’</p>

The Saturday Interview

Rebecca Lucy Taylor aka Self Esteem: ‘I felt a bit dead’

<p>‘I’m as actory as they get’: Billy Crudup was amused by the idea of playing a Method actor in ‘Jay Kelly’</p>

Billy Crudup: ‘America is becoming an increasingly lawless community’

The star of ‘Almost Famous’ and ‘The Morning Show’ talks to Patrick Smith about forcing out tears in ‘Jay Kelly’, playing the lawman in ‘High Noon’, and bumping into ‘golden god’ Robert Plant

<p>Centre-stage: Alan Cumming has announced his inaugural season as artistic director of Pitlochry Festival Theatre</p>

Alan Cumming: ‘After my rant about trans rights, I was worried I would be deported’

Theatre news

Beloved Victoria Wood sitcom Dinnerladies returns with new stage show

Michael Flatley reveals the extensive damage dancing did to his body

<p>Stephen Mangan recalled one particular incident where an audience member crossed the line</p>

Stephen Mangan: ‘I kicked a theatregoer’s feet off the stage’

London West End theatre to change name to honour Judi Dench

Paddington The Musical heads to Broadway after London run

The Traitors stage play coming to West End with five different endings

Paul O’Grady’s life inspires play – with Drag Race UK queen to star

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