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<p>Neil LaBute: ‘The idea that we should be deprived of deciding when our life might end is maddening’</p>

First Person

My mum was begging to die – I wish I’d been strong enough to help her

Award-winning playwright and filmmaker Neil LaBute draws from his own well of experience for his new play about assisted dying, ‘How to Fight Loneliness’

<p>Denzel Washington, Kieran Culkin, and Robert Downey, Jr. were all snubbed by the Tony Awards nominating committee</p>

Comment

The Tony Awards just sent a clear message to Hollywood A-listers

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In Focus

How 25 working-class Salford kids became a theatre troupe

<p>Chaotic evil: Paddington Bear in last year’s ‘Paddington in Peru’</p>

Comment

How Paddington became totally unbearable

<p>Gabby Wong and Millicent Wong as Jiang Qing and Sun Weishi in ‘Shanghai Dolls’</p>

In Shanghai Dolls, the bold story of Madame Mao is undone by clichés

This real-life tale of Mao’s wife and the first female director of China fails to meet its own potential

<p>‘Manhunt’ follows writer-director Robert Icke’s Olivier award-winning production of ‘Oedipus’ last year</p>

Manhunt is an intense study of Raoul Moat but its message is uncertain

Samuel Edward-Cook is effective as the prowling fugitive, but Robert Icke’s risk-taking production is not as compassionate as it makes itself out to be

Interviews

<p>Jared Harris: ‘My wife gets really annoyed with me for quoting Hamlet so much’</p>

Interview

Jared Harris: ‘I didn’t like what my family had in mind for me’

<p>Anna Chancellor is returning to the stage in a new production of ‘Playhouse Creatures’</p>

Interview

Anna Chancellor: ‘A relationship doesn’t end just because they die’

<p>‘A director once said: “Oh my God, put a scar on him!”’ </p>

Interview

Peter Gallagher: ‘Fame is toxic. It can kill you’

Interview

David Oyelowo: ‘Like a lot of immigrants, my dad was all about work’

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