Slave Play review – Jeremy O Harris’s intense study of sex and race demands debate
Kit Harington and Olivia Washington star in a charged, often comical drama about the legacy of historical racial violence in three couples’ sexual dynamics
The School for Scandal review – gen Z glow up is all style and no snap
The Children’s Inquiry review – exhilarating political musical about kids in care
Actors’ show-stopping art exhibition: ‘We’re used to rejection so nothing was turned down!’
The mysterious art of the casting director: ‘When you see the truth in front of you, it’s the right person’
Grud review – sliding floors as teenager’s two worlds collide
Loads more stories and moves focus to first new story.
Skeleton Crew review – America’s precariat show grit in the face of crisis
An infectious soundtrack and a bubbling script boost Dominique Morisseau’s drama as the spectre of closure looms over the lives of four assembly-line workers
Your Lie in April review – high-school musical mixes manga aesthetics with Broadway sound
Radiant Vermin review – cartoonish descent into property hell
The week in theatre: Mnemonic; The Secret Garden; The Herds – review
Acosta Danza: Carlos Acosta’s Carmen review – never quite reaches boiling point
Brassed Off review – miners’ music brings film to life on stage
Alma Mater review – skeletons escape closets in campus rape drama
Mnemonic review – Complicité’s brainteaser goes back to the future
Glitch review – dynamically delivered drama about the Post Office scandal
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Acrobatic theatre troupe Fuerza Bruta on breaking barriers – and the fourth wall
The celebrated Argentinian dance group use hip-hop and high-wire artistry to bring culture to the masses – and provide a respite from political instability
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‘Friends and family were afraid, anxious, heartbroken’: Dominique Morisseau on the decline of Detroit
Russian playwright and director given six years in jail for ‘justifying terrorism’
Ian McKellen pulls out of Player Kings national tour after fall from stage
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Pictures & video
James Corden delays play to watch Euros penalty shootout with audience
No rest for the wicked: The School for Scandal at the RSC
Sheridan’s 18th-century comedy of manners is staged for the Royal Shakespeare Company this month by director Tinuke Craig. Enter a backstage world of wigs, fans and frocks
A night to remember: the return of Complicité classic Mnemonic
Twenty-five years after its first production, Complicité’s play about memory is revived at the National Theatre in London
‘Our message? Be fabulous!’: Drag artists with Down’s syndrome
Tony awards 2024: red carpet looks and best of the show
Now spread your wings! Flock of 100 dancers star in English National Ballet’s Swan Lake
Bookkeeping with a bang: Manchester’s stage spectacular The Accountants
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