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Light fantastic: Air Vag's Starry Nights

On the agenda: Harry Brown; Radley; Manchester's Royal Exchange Theatre; Masterchef; Ctrl.Alt.Shift

You've got to ask yourself, 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, you should – the vigilantes are back...

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Complex personality: Bennett is as much a tonic off the page and stage as on

A very English playwright: The return of Alan Bennett

Friday, 6 November 2009

Alan Bennett stages his first play for years this month, at the National Theatre. Paul Taylor, who has met him many times, looks at how the butcher's son from Leeds became Britain's best loved playwright, and tries to unravel his complex personality

Human whirlwind: Khan has a reputation for pushing the boundaries of his form

Akram Khan: 'You have to become a warrior'

Friday, 6 November 2009

He's the darling of the dance world, and beyond, with artists such as Anish Kapoor and Antony Gormley lining up to work with him

The Pirate Queen

The ten biggest Broadway turkeys

Tuesday, 3 November 2009

Following the shock closure of Neil Simon's Brighton Beach Memoirs and the cancellation of its companion piece Broadway Bound, we look at ten of the biggest flops to grace Broadway.

Life in the fast lane: Steven McRae

Saturday, 31 October 2009

Steven McRae grew up in the world of motor racing but now he is one of the Royal Ballet's brightest stars

Observations: Barbican's vampire show is theatre to get your teeth into

Friday, 30 October 2009

If imitation is a form of flattery, Twilight star Robert Pattinson ought to be pleased by the posters for new teen vampire flick, Cirque du Freak, whose young lead is a dead (or should that be undead?) ringer. The continuing mania surrounding Twilight on the big screen and the HBO series True Blood on the small meant it was only a matter of time before vampires invaded other cultural spheres.

In the psychotherapist's chair: Clare Higgins has trained in the subject, and mentored others. Now she is playing Melanie Klein, one of of its pioneers, on stage

Clare Higgins: 'I was a bit of an odd child'

Friday, 30 October 2009

An epiphany at the Royal Shakespeare Company led the award-winning actress first to misbehaviour, and then stardom

Stepping up: Lucy Kirkwood

Lucy Kirkwood: Britain's brightest young stage writer

Tuesday, 27 October 2009

Her explicit play about sex trafficking has stunned the critics, but Lucy Kirkwood is more worried about what her parents will think. She talks to Alice Jones

Download "Turing's Test": an exclusive new radio play

Saturday, 24 October 2009

This weekend, The Independent premieres a fictionalised account of the final moments in the life of Alan Turing, in the first collaboration of its kind between a national newspaper and an independent production company.

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FIVE BEST PLAYS

Pains of Youth (NT: Cottesloe, London)
Katie Mitchell helms a rare revival of Ferdinand Bruckner’s brilliantly odd 1923 play about six bored, sexually entangled medical students in 1920s Vienna. (020-7452 3000) to 21 Jan

Bedroom Farce (Rose Theatre, Kingston-upon-Thames)
Nicholas Le Prevost and Jane Asher star in Peter Hall’s staging of Alan Ayckbourn’s comedy, which is paired in the theatre’s Behind Closed Doors season with Stephen Unwin’s production of August Strindberg's 1888 tragedy, 'Miss Julie'. (0871 230 1552) to 28 Nov

Spring Storm (Royal & Derngate Theatre, Northampton)
Laurie Sansom’s sensitive production of Tennessee Williams’ 1937 drama features actors for whom the parts seem to have been written. (01604 624 811) to 14 Nov

Seize the Day (Tricycle Theatre, London)
This entertaining new play by Kwame Kwei-Armah explores the real possibility of a new black mayor for London with a sharp-edged clarity in both argument and stage design. (020-7328 1000) to 17 Dec

War Horse (New London Theatre, London)
The National Theatre’s moving adaptation of Michael Morpurgo’s novel, adapted by Nick Stafford, about a horse sold to the cavalry and pitched into the First World War. (0844 412 4654) to 12 Feb

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