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Keira Knightley trades film paranoia for stage surveillance in The Lives of Others

A West End revival of the Stasi drama puts Knightley back under watchful eyes - on stage and, she says, in real life.

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Thelma & Louise, the musical: can a feminist road movie survive jazz hands?

Callie Khouri's Oscar-winning screenplay gets the stage treatment at the Young Vic - but a decade in development says as much about theatre economics as it does about the story.

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Pole dance goes fringe: from strip clubs to serious theatre, at serious risk to pay

Pole dancers are storming Edinburgh's theatre stages this year - the artistry is undeniable, but the source material is thin on what performers are actually paid to get there.

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The Old Vic has revived a 1969 farce, and the reason is written into the set

Alan Ayckbourn's How the Other Half Loves runs at the Old Vic until 19 September, with Roger Allam and Adam Gillen. A theatre chooses a fifty-seven-year-old comedy for reasons the design makes plain.

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