Stage
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Royal Shakespeare Company to assemble consciously diverse cast for season of three plays
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Bristol’s Old Vic confronts its controversial 250-year-old past on its relaunch after a £25m facelift
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Artist Alex Katz collaborated for more than 20 years with Paul Taylor, who has died aged 88. He remembers their quiet and once combative partnership
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Twitter abuse proves rich source of material for new standup show
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It is one of the most breathtaking stories of disaster, abandonment and survival in mountaineering. Will a theatre version finally settle its brutal controversies?
From the archive
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The great theatre-maker remembers creating Pierrot in Turquoise and hanging out in Soho with David Bowie, meeting a young Kate Bush and dancing with the Ballet Rambert
Pictures & video
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Featuring Christopher Plummer as Richard III, Vivien Leigh as Viola and Charles Laughton as Bottom, Shakespeare by McBean is a volume of the photographer’s shots at the RSC
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In her new show, the choreographer Jasmin Vardimon uses the Greek myth of Medusa to explore womanhood and our ecological future. Tristram Kenton photographed the rehearsals in Sitges
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The experimental British choreographer and mime, who collaborated with stars such as David Bowie and Kate Bush, has died in Italy at the age of 80
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As this year’s fringe wraps up, look back at some of the shows photographed by Murdo MacLeod in Edinburgh
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Richard Thomas returns with a new musical, Marcus Brigstocke pronounces on what is good and bad in the world, and Pussy Riot’s Maria Alyokhina defies the Russian authorities to appear at Edinburgh
You may have missed
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Gender-swapped classics, Hans Christian Andersen’s closet secrets, two giants of US comedy sharing a stage, plus Ralph Fiennes and Sophie Okonedo as rulers in love
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The influential avant-garde choreographer and mime has died in Italy, aged 80
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A show about entertainment industry sexism and the dynamics of double acts is making Edinburgh audiences laugh and sob. Its writer and stars tell all
Brexit shorts
Abi/Abigail's Party review – Mike Leigh's cringy classic gets a spin-off