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The Boys from the Blackstuff hit the stage in Liverpool
A maverick medic
A theatrical biography of a life saver
Moscow rules
The machinations of Russian regime are dramatised in a new play.
BBC embattled in Donmar’s latest
A new production delves into the tense relationship between the BBC and Stanley Baldwin’s government.
Diva and the Dane
The Motive and the Cue at the National Theatre delves into the relationship of an acting power couple.
Revel in Runyon
A classic gem with extra polish
A devil to relish
The stories that tell us that women are damned if they play the game of sexual availability and just as doomed if they don’t
Killer jokes
The Unfriend explores how closely good and evil can live in cosy accommodation
Family troubles
Frecknall’s Streetcar is a commendable, if not stellar outing
Norse mode
How John Gabriel Borkman is a hard Ibsen play to like
50 years ago…
Ali dances, bounces, beckons Foreman on, matador against bull
Don’t stop the music
How a legendary DJ was cancelled just for listening to women
We need more have-yachts
The tragedy of the Bayesian highlights a wider issue about our lack of ambition
There’s no good way to equal pay
You can’t beat the laws of supply and demand
Murders for October
Tales from the gothic to the macabre
The death of modern Britishness?
Attempts to construct a dehistoricised national identity have failed
Why was I the only reporter?
On the sentencing of the Rotherham grooming gang
The crisis at Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre
Serious as it is, it is no anomaly
A Chancellor should be a fine thing
The University of Oxford’s Chancellor election has descended into farce
Revolution in the Academy
The quest for knowledge, not power, ought to guide academia
Two-tier policing is not new
Our authorities must operate without fear or favour again
