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Never Let Me Go review
“Confident adaptation is focused and fast-paced”

Never Let Me Go review

Rose Theatre, Kingston, London
With direction from Christopher Haydon, these heartfelt performances provide a powerful emotional kick in this new adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s tearjerker about medical ethics and doomed youth
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Lyn Gardner
by Lyn Gardner

Theatre will be judged not just on what it speaks out about, but on when it remains silent

The increasing concern of management and boards to try and manage the risk out of theatre and protect their own reputation with potential funders means there is increasing tension with instinctively political artists
David Benedict
by David Benedict

Mid-scale musicals are being squeezed out – but some are figuring out how to thrive

The expense of mounting musicals has climbed yet higher thanks to everything from show running costs to energy bills, creating bigger commercial risks when staging smaller shows, says David Benedict

Editor's View

by Alistair Smith

The National Theatre must continue to find new ways to evolve once Rufus Norris departs

Norris says the five principles that have defined his tenure were programming new work, broadening representation, increasing the reach of the NT, a focus on young people, and sustainability
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Two decades after co-founding pioneering production company Fuel, Kate McGrath is taking the outfit from strength to strength. As she plans a series of new and old work to celebrate its 20th anniversary, she tells Lyn Gardner why a desire to keep pushing the boundaries of form and scale has led her to take theatre into car parks and day-care centres
Timberlake Wertenbaker
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Amit Sharma
“I have got a lot to prove, because of who I am”

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Francesca Moody
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Francesca Moody

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Sutton Foster

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Making a living: how should theatre artists be paid?

Making a living: how should theatre artists be paid?

by Lyn Gardner
Lyn Gardner investigates theatre’s low-pay crisis and its lack of stability for artists, and considers how industry and government could do more to support their talent
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Eleanor Tomlinson: ‘You have to keep pushing yourself, otherwise you become stale’

Eleanor Tomlinson: ‘You have to keep pushing yourself, otherwise you become stale’

by Fergus Morgan
The star of TV hits such as Poldark and One Day, Eleanor Tomlinson is making a rare foray on to the stage for the European premiere of Matthew López’s Reverberation. The actor tells Fergus Morgan about the moments that have made up her career
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