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Ukraine Unbroken at Arcola Theatre review: Can theatre confront the hideous reality of war?

3/5 The many horrors of Russia’s invasion are brought home by a cast of six performing five scrappy plays from Ukrainian and British writers

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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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The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry: Call it a meh-sical

3/5 This musical at Theatre Royal Haymarket has two loveable leads but it all feels a little thin

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Choreographer Cathy Marston: 'Dance encourages empathy'

Acclaimed choreographer Cathy Marston is back at Royal Ballet with a new piece designed around Benjamin Britten’s Violin Concerto which liberated her into new modes of working

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Natalya Romaniw on Wagner’s Die Walküre: 'It's not just balls to the wall!'

Soprano Natalya Romaniw tells us about the challenge of taking on Wagner’s epic at the Royal Opera House

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Christopher Benjamin obituary

Veteran stage, radio and TV actor whose many notable Shakespearean roles included Falstaff and Bottom

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Manon Lescaut review – Puccini’s desert tragedy gets a surreal rainbow revamp

Jude Christian’s staging for English Touring Opera is colourful and imaginative but lacks critical chemistry and coherence

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Lara Ricote review – endearingly offbeat comedy of self-exploration

The fringe award-winner compares her romantic relationship to how she feels about her audience in this mildly evasive investigation of inner knottiness

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‘She plumbed our secret, shameful depths’: why are Sarah Kane’s plays still so shocking?

The writer, who took her life 25 years ago this month, wrote five searing dramas that took in everything from despair to love, from mutilation to cannibalism. What was it like to direct or star in them?

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Cavalleria Rusticana/Aleko review – an electrifying double-bill from Opera North

Setting Mascagni’s one-act opera amid the unease of 70s communist Poland, and moving Rachmaninoff’s to a colourful 90s surfing commune, the company does them both delectable justice

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The week in dance: Nelken; Dark With Excessive Bright; São Paulo Dance Company – review

A revival of Pina Bausch’s 1982 work is still finding its feet. Plus, full immersion with the Royal Ballet and a rich addition to the international dance scene

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Desperate Egypt sells off historic hotels as it dives deeper into debt

Amid biting austerity and rising inflation, the al-Sisi government is off-loading assets – some to a convicted murderer with Emirati cash

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Festival of New Choreography review – the Royal Ballet spreads its wings

Impressive new work from Joshua Junker and Mthuthuzeli November pushes dancers well beyond the classical repertoire

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The Barber of Seville review – Miller’s 1987 staging still sparkles

Rossini’s comedy is engaging, warm and witty in this revival of Jonathan Miller’s staging with Charles Rice’s Figaro dominating – as he should

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São Paulo Dance Company review – athletic power and sinuous movement

In a triple bill by Spanish and Brazilian choreographers, dancers move in ritualistic unison or launch into flight or just inspire wonder

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Rewind review – ingenious portrait of oppression and dissent in Latin America

Ephemeral Ensemble use music, movement and puppetry to astonishing effect in a devastating show about the right to protest

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Bronco Billy: The Musical review – Clint Eastwood inspires misfiring caper

Hunter Bird’s often madcap production, based on the 1980 western, has anodyne songs and lacks the film’s weathered perspective

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Othello review – Shakespeare’s tragedy interrogated in New Scotland Yard

Ola Ince’s production is set within a hostile modern police force and has DCI Othello’s unconscious portrayed by a second actor

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La Strada review – Fellini’s circus becomes a heartfelt ballet

Dancer Alina Cojocaru and choreographer Natalia Horečná bring the 1954 film to the stage but their show loses its way in the second act

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The Most Precious of Goods review – a stark fairytale set against the Holocaust

Samantha Spiro conducts listeners urgently through this horrifying story of a baby thrown in desperation from an Auschwitz train

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‘I am not scary!’ A thrilling audience with super-charged soprano Angela Gheorghiu

She calls herself ‘the world’s most glamorous opera star’, and knew, from kindergarten, that her destiny was to be on stage. Can the Romanian diva possibly live up to her reputation? You bet …

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Giselle; Les Noces: The Departure review – the shock of the old

English National Ballet dance Mary Skeaping’s 70s reworking of the classic ballet with loving care, while Stravinsky’s revolutionary Les Noces holds its own in an ambitious reworking

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The week in classical: Elektra; Jenůfa; Scottish Ensemble with Jasdeep Singh Degun – review

In the hands of two great conductors, high drama and outstanding playing converge in Strauss’s unyielding tragedy and Janáček’s dark masterpiece

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Manon review – the Royal Ballet brings beauty to sordid snake pits of Paris

Kenneth MacMillan’s journey into a world of darkness is performed with consummate craft by a superb company

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The many faces of Falstaff: Shakespeare’s tragicomic knight is as complex as Hamlet

Ian McKellen follows in the footsteps of David Warner and Antony Sher as he takes on a character who has been played as wittily jovial and cruelly cunning

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