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Larkiness overtakes Tim Price’s hallucinatory new play about the founder of the NHS; Roy Williams’s adaptation of Sam Selvon’s great Windrush novel pulses with brio; and Anaïs Mitchell’s underworld musical squeezes into the West End

A tremendous cast capture the hope and despair of life in the ‘mother country’ in this powerful adaptation of the 1956 novel

The show crams seven characters, a large swathe of social history and a lot of rage, pride and hurt onto the tiny stage

As she is named the National Theatre’s first female director, those who have worked with Rubasingham praise her warmth, rigour and willingness to take risks

The fourth in Clint Dyer and Roy Williams’s state-of-the-nation play series is precise, fierce and moving, while Nicole Scherzinger hammers home the drama as Norma Desmond

Sharon Duncan-Brewster and Hayley Squires are riveting, creating a love-hate relationship that feels deep, detailed and combustively alive

Clint Dyer and Roy Williams’ state-of-the-nation series continues, this time giving the perspective of the women in its central duo’s lives

The final show in the Death of England series, which explores race and class in contemporary Britain, opens at the National Theatre later this month

Set aboard a double-decker as it journeys through London and back and forth in time, this is a poignant but uplifting immersive theatre piece about race, the city, and the legacy of the Black teen murdered at a bus stop 30 years ago

Theatremakers have come together to create a bus journey – taken in Stephen’s honour – that explores the rich potential of Black lives, hopes and dreams

Every epic game comes with a defining moment — if not more than one — and for the North Carolina-Duke NCAA Tournament national semifinal of a year ago, that moment remains clear enough. It will endure, even if almost nothing else about the photographs capturing it lasted all that much…