Young Vic

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In Nachtland, German playwright Marius von Mayenburg explores morality versus money through the shock discovery of a problematic painting

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Young Vic boss Kwame Kwei-Armah has penned a play inspired by Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun, but while there's political bark, it lacks bite

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Strong performances manage to bring home the Young Vic's revival of Zinnie Harris's Further Than the Furthest Thing, which feels burdened by narrative cargo

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Musicals 

Director Daniel Fish's Tony-winning revival of Oklahoma! transfers from the Young Vic to the West End's Wyndham's Theatre for 2023

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Following a critically-acclaimed, sell-out run at the Young Vic theatre last winter, James Graham's Best of Enemies gets a West End transfer

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Cush Jumbo delivers a soaring performance in Greg Hersov’s relationship-driven Hamlet at the Young Vic Theatre

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The Young Vic reopens with Changing Destiny, Ben Okri’s bare-bones sprint through the 4,000-year-old story of the Egyptian official Sinuhe

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A comic tragedy: the musical theatre adaptation of Alison Bechdel’s graphic novel Fun Home is a vital, life-affirming show that's not to be missed

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The Inheritance: West End Transfer. A generation after the AIDS crisis, Matthew Lopez’s The Inheritance provides a panoramic view of gay life in New York City

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Best of 

Social activist theatre at its best: after an impressive Young Vic premiere, The Jungle transfers to the West End

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Tarell Alvin McCraney, the writer behind Oscar-winning film Moonlight, brings his early play to the Young Vic

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Playwright David Greig re-imagines Aeschylus' The Suppliant Women in reference to the refugee crisis

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Juliet Stevenson and Natalie Abrahami return to the Young Vic for a soaring story about a stroke victim in recovery

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After delighting at the Edinburgh Fringe, this comic musical about an English eccentric comes to the Young Vic's Maria Theatre

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Theatre 

A harrowing first-person account of Rachel Corrie’s life and activism comes to the Young Vic

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Theatre 

Actor, singer and activist Josette Bushell-Mingo combines song and story to connect her own life with that of Nina Simone

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Theatre 

The life of Palestinian poet Taha Muhammed Ali forms the basis of this eloquent new play at the Young Vic

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Theatre 

Theatre goes out of this world at the Young Vic: Life of Galileo, Brecht's study of scientific morality, is revived by director Joe Wright

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Former Newsnight presenter Paul Mason in a promenade performance of his book about social revolt and change – where audience participation is an integral part

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Theatre 

Joe Hill-Gibbins returns to the Young Vic with a subversive, nightmarish version of A Midsummer Night's Dream

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A Midsummer Night's Dream gets an update at the Young Vic: actor Jemina Rooper tells us about devising a dark new version at the Young Vic

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Theatre 

Harry Enfield shines in a charming though insubstantial version of 1930s comedy about cashing in on the dawn of Hollywood talkies

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Theatre 

South African theatre makers Insango Ensemble return to the Young Vic for UK premiere of a new musical play based on Jonny Steinberg's grim yet inspring book

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Theatre 

PJ Harvey will compose an original new score for Conor McPherson's adaptation of The Nest, a sharp fable about materialism

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Theatre 

Katheryn Hunter shifts shapes to play a desot plus his subjects and staff in a new stage adaptation of the Polish book about absolute power

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Things to do 

We talk to Romola Garai, star of the Young Vic's 'Measure for Measure' about working on Suffragette, living in a covent and sexist directors