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A potent US tale of Black lives hits home with fervour and humanity at ENO. Plus shock and roar from John Eliot Gardiner at 80

Jeanine Tesori’s score and Tazewell Thompson’s libretto hit hard where it matters. Opera review by David Nice

South London-born soprano Nadine Benjamin is particularly outstanding among the singers

The musical revival is set to visit Salford, Southampton, Norwich, Plymouth, Northampton and Cardiff

Lucas Hnath’s sequel to the Ibsen classic is intriguing rather than revelatory; but August Wilson’s taxi-stand drama has developed new flavour with age

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It’s great to see August Wilson’s early play – the first of his “Century Cycle”, that remarkable decalogy that explored a century of Black American experience through the prism of the playwright’s native Pittsburgh – back on the London stage. It’s been a long two decades since it premiered at the National Theatre, winning the 2002 Olivier Best New Play award.

Tinuke Craig's revival of the August Wilson classic runs until 9 July in London before continuing to Oldham, Worthing, Bath and Cambridge

FIrst staged in Leeds and now at the Old Vic, this is a tremendous staging of August Wilson's full-fat portrait of black working-class life

WITH beautiful swim-suited lovers romping in a pile of foam, a club soundtrack of dance and hip hop, and a complete absence of bodices, bonnets and…