An Abortion Scene Gets Theater Audiences Talking, and Fainting
The Years,” running in London, dramatizes a woman’s life from teenage thrills to later-life sex. One intense scene is causing ...
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A provocative, visceral masterpiece which is well worth fainting for: Nobel Prize-winning author Annie Ernaux’s The Years is momentous
The Years, which has transferred to the West End after a sell-out run at the Almeida, is not dissimilar to a theatrical, ...
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The Gold Hot List
The Gold Edition’s new column brings you a selection of our favourite things to have on your radar. From the critically ...
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Shows change. A critic’s opinion on them can – and should – change, too
Great theatre changes – from performance to performance, venue to venue, audience to audience – so it's only right that a ...
PATRICK MARMION reviews Churchill In Moscow: The night Churchill and Stalin got sloshed on vodka
The latest play from theatrical provocateur Howard Brenton is about Winston Churchill's visit to Joseph Stalin in Moscow in 1942, and stars Roger Allam (pictured) and Peter Forbes.
British audiences are the worst in the world – we should be ashamed
When did we become such an appalling nation? I ask this because, earlier in the week, Peter Kay evicted two guests heckling ...
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Why Patrick Swayze NEVER agreed to a Dirty Dancing sequel
Patrick Swayze didn’t want to star in a Dirty Dancing sequel in the early 2000s. Speaking with US talk show host Conan O’Brien on his late night talk show in 2002, the Johnny Castle actor was asked ...
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The art of show-stopping should not be underestimated
Actors are often unfairly stereotyped as fragile, unreliable, or self-indulgent, but time and again, I’m reminded that they ...