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Theatre
Promoting gender equality in theatre, the Women Centre Stage theatre festival fights back against the lack of meaty parts for women
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Theatre
After a flurry of five star reviews from Edinburgh, Bridget Christie's Because You Demanded It brings 'electrifying' jokes about Brexit to London
Preview
Theatre
Three of theatre's most impressive female creatives tell Ophelia's story in a bold collaboration between Royal Court and Schaubühne Berlin, performed in German with English surtitles
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Theatre
Charlene James' play Cuttin' It puts the issues surrounding Female Genital Mutilation in the spotlight at the Young Vic's Maria Theatre
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Talks
Academic and writer Germaine Greer discusses marginalisation at Conway Hall
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Talks
To mark International Women’s Day, Shami Chakrabarti leads a debate asking how close we are to achieving gender equality
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Cinema
Cate Blanchett stars in Reagan Era movie Truth about a journalist who exposes questionable truths about George W. Bush
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Cinema
New film How To Be Single is a fresher, funnier and more feminist take on the romantic comedy formula
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Theatre
Maverick director Katie Mitchell brings the Schaubühne Berlin theatre ensemble to the Barbican for UK premiere of multimedia female take on war
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Visual Arts
It's star-powered, but don't expect to be challenged: Annie Leibovitz' WOMEN project begins its world tour in Wapping.
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Theatre
Penny Skinner's new play is a roaring, rousing portrait of a woman who refuses to be sidelined
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Cinema
New French film about a ménage à trois romance is a charming tale of fluid sexuality
Tried and Tested
Cinema
Cinematic and highly dramatic (at times to a fault) it's still difficult not to be moved by this portrait of one of the world's youngest and most influential political activists.
Interview
Ariane Labed talks to us about working with her husband Yorgos Lanthimos on The Lobster, and why she thinks there's no place for feminism in the film industry.
Interview
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
Interview
After it opened the London Film Festival, Suffragette is the film of the moment. We talk screenwriter Abi Morgan talks about protest and feminism past and present
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Theatre
A magnetic performance from actress Nicole Kidman in Photograph 51 for the Michael Grandage Theatre Company elevates an otherwise patchy drama
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Cinema
New french film Fidelio: Alice's Journey comes to UK cinemas 2 October. Read our film review
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Cinema
Onwards and Outwards is a special, UK-wide programme of screenings, talks and events that champion women's filmmaking
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Theatre
This is a London fringe festival with a message – and a bite. Camden People's Theatre's Feminist Theatre Festival returns with an invigorating line-up of theatre, talks and art.
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Theatre
This Spanish Golden Age style thriller about a proto-feminist nun in 17th century is brought to lively, lusty life at Shakespeare's Globe.
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Cinema
A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night is an unexpected Iranian gem of a film
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Cinema
We can't get enough of Carol Morley's ethereal coming-of-age story about mass psychogenic illness in a sleepy Oxfordshire town.