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<p>Seeing double: Patrick and Hugo McPherson form the comedic duo Pear</p>

Pear could see these 7ft twins reaching new comedic heights at Fringe

Props fly through the air in Patrick and Hugo McPherson’s chaotic new sketch show

<p>Siena Kelly and Liv Hill in ‘1536’</p>

Almeida play 1536 is a witty, wrenching parable of girlhood

<p>Master of ceremonies: Stephen Sondheim in 2013 </p>

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Three years after his death, Stephen Sondheim is more alive than ever

<p>The end of the world: Stephen Sondheim died before completing ‘Here We Are’</p>

Here We Are charms, but Sondheim’s final musical feels incomplete

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<p>Unhappy in love: Kate Fleetwood and Ewan McGregor in ‘My Master Builder’</p>

Ewan McGregor comes undone at the party from hell in My Master Builder

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<p>Two-hander: Jessie Buckley and Tim Crouch in ‘An Oak Tree’</p>

Tim Crouch’s experimental play An Oak Tree is pure magic

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

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

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

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

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How 25 working-class Salford kids became a theatre troupe

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

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How Paddington became totally unbearable

<p>Chris O’Dowd as Dermot in ‘The Brightening Air’ at The Old Vic</p>

Chris O’Dowd is a walking midlife crisis in The Brightening Air

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<p>Alfie Allen: ‘There’s got to be something on the line for it to matter’</p>

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Alfie Allen: ‘There has to be something on the line for it to matter’

<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

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This Great Gatsby musical lacks a basic respect for F Scott Fitzgerald

As Gatsby, Jamie Muscato brings stupendous vocals and a jarringly approachable goofiness to the most elusive of literary creations

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Interviews

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

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

<p>‘There’s nothing more exciting than doing something for the first time – being the first person to play a role’</p>

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Ewan McGregor and Elizabeth Debicki: ‘There’s slight snobbery about film actors doing a play’

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

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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>

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

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