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<p>Barry Sloane as Yosser Hughes in ‘Boys from the Blackstuff’at the National Theatre</p>

Boys from the Blackstuff needs to feel more like a play for today

Leading political playwright James Graham is burdened by the need to preserve this classic piece of writing about unemployed men in 1980s Liverpool, but the show comes alive when it finds the raw edges of poverty and desperation

<p>Ben Whishaw in ‘Bluets’</p>

Bluets, starring Ben Whishaw and Emma D’Arcy, is slow and demanding

<p>Tom Holland in Jamie Lloyd’s production of ‘Romeo & Juliet'</p>

Tom Holland’s sad boy star-cross’d lover falls flat in Romeo & Juliet

<p>Michelle Terry as the lead in ‘Richard III’ at Shakespeare’s Globe</p>

Michelle Terry’s controversial Richard III takes aim at toxic men

Interviews

<p>Cox’s latest role is in ‘a beast of a play’ that’s ‘unremitting’ and ‘never lets you off the hook’ </p>

Interview

Brian Cox: ‘I can’t afford $110 each for one night at the theatre’

<p>‘We shot ourselves in the face by voluntarily leaving the only economic union we’re ever going to be invited into’ </p>

Interview

Jack Davenport: ‘What would Shakespeare make of a trigger warning?’

<p>Laura Donnelly, star of ‘The Hills of California’, on working with partner Jez Butterworth: “I’ve definitely had a few moments that are like, ‘I cannot believe you’re making me do this’” </p>

Interview

Meet Laura Donnelly, star of Jez Butterworth’s new West End smash

<p>‘I was young and foolish. I suppose I had a certain amount of arrogance’ </p>

Interview

Jonny Lee Miller on fame, heroin and Harvey Weinstein: ‘I felt fury’

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