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“Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky” at Southwark Playhouse Borough
“The Turn of the Screw” at Arcola Theatre
“Thelma and Louise” at the Young Vic
“Tristan & Yseult” at Theatre Royal Bath
“Golden Boy” at Almeida Theatre

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“King Lear” at Crucible Theatre, Sheffield

John Murphy in North-East England ★★★★☆ 6 September 2026 There’s a rich tradition of Shakespeare at the Crucible Theatre, one

“As You Like It” at the Globe Theatre

“The Winter’s Tale” at the Delacorte Outdoor Theatre, Central Park

“Love’s Labour’s Lost”/“Much Ado About Nothing” at Thomas’s College, Richmond

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“New British Drama in 15 Scenes: Adventures in Theatre Criticism” by Aleks Sierz (Methuen Drama)

Book review by Maryam Philpott New playwriting and innovative revivals are driven by questions of who we are, why do

“The Real Shakespeare: Emilia Bassano Willoughby”, Irene Coslet

“Dark Renaissance”, Stephen Greenblatt

“Female Playwrights and Applied Intersectionality in Romanian Theater” by Catalina Florina Florescu

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“Krapp’s Last Tape”, Assembly Roxy, Edinburgh

Mark Brown at the Edinburgh Fringe ★★★★☆ 9 September 2026 It speaks to the resonance of Samuel Beckett’s monodrama Krapp’s

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