Nikki Amuka-Bird
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As the artistic director prepares to leave the Donmar Warehouse, we look back over her reign – from City of Angels to the Shakespeare TrilogyGallery
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The actress talks about her dynamic, entrepreneurial mother, journalist father and growing up in Lagos, Antigua and London
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Playing Thatcher? Dab on Bluebell. Got a part in Hairspray? Reach for the Madame Rochas. We lift the lid on how actors use smells – from the finest fragrances to cheap tinned mackerel – to nail a role
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Her sharp and funny plays have feted female friendship. As Elinor Cook takes Ibsen to the Caribbean with her version of The Lady from the Sea, she talks about fighting against the industry’s inequality
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All the winners of this year’s Bafta awards, from Happy Valley to Planet Earth II, Adeel Akhtar to Phoebe Waller-Bridge
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A new production of Alan Bennett’s Forty Years On has Richard Wilson playing the headmaster. Take a look at theatre’s best school staff through the yearsGallery
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From Fleabag to Thirteen and The Crown, this year’s nominations reveal that the most daring television has now gone online
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DBC Pierre wrote in a fever, Frank Turner dabbled in thrash and Nikki Amuka-Bird jumped off a cliff. Artists reveal how they got to the top – and how you can too
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This super-faithful adaptation feels totally in the spirit of the novel. It’s a stirring urban story with characters, and friendships, that will feel painfully familiar
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From Any Human Heart to Capital to Smith’s new adaptation … why are novels set in London more likely to make it to the screen?
Stage struck: Tom Stoppard, Cush Jumbo, Brian Cox and more on the magic of theatre