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Mark Rylance

Mark Rylance play: Who was Dr Semmelweis and what did he discover?

23 June 2023

New Scientist talks to actor Mark Rylance, writer Stephen Brown and director Tom Morris about their new play Dr Semmelweis, which spotlights the work of this maverick 19th-century obstetrician


Love + Science review: Reflecting on the rise of HIV

Love + Science review: Reflecting on the rise of HIV

21 June 2023

Two gay medical students attempt to navigate the AIDS crisis – and their own love – in David Glass’s new play at New York City Center


You’re Safe Til 2024: Deep History is about humanity's turning points

You’re Safe Til 2024: Deep History is about humanity's turning points

29 September 2022

This impactful one-man show from David Finnigan explores the moments in Earth’s history when humans faced turning points


Now The War of the Worlds has spread to inner space

Now The War of the Worlds has spread to inner space

23 May 2019

Carl Guyenette has turned musician Jeff Wayne's 70’s concept album into two hours of immersive terror – by putting all the tech at the service of the story


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Don't Miss: The art of colour and the science of persuasion

2 January 2019

Last call for a fascinating exhibition on the use of theories of colour in design, plus artist Jonas Lund unleashes his angle on the conundrum of Brexit


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Don't miss: Rebuilding the past, Xmas orbiting the moon and AI art

18 December 2018

Watch a man reconstruct his memory in Welcome to Marwen, listen to the Apollo 8 crew in lunar orbit 50 years ago and admire AI-created digital canvases


Deconstructing Patterns exhibition

Don’t miss: tiny patterns, a transgender scientist and a Mars meeting

21 November 2018

Explore science-art tie-ups examining the microscopic world, read about a transgender scientist's career and go to the first meeting of Mars Society London


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The Wider Earth review – Darwin's Beagle days make a gripping play

7 November 2018

An unusual venue stages an intriguing play about Darwin's Beagle days as London's Natural History Museum turns theatrical–with superb puppets as exotic wildlife


Actors Nadi Kemp-Sayfi and Sam Redway

War With the Newts review – this is smart sci-fi theatre at its best

10 October 2018

A reimagining of a classic 1930s novel by Karel Capek cleverly immerses us in a terrifying future where a new intelligent species is cruelly exploited


The Twilight Zone play, Cosmo Jarvis and Oliver Alvin-Wilson on stage

You’ve just crossed over… The Twilight Zone takes to the stage

19 December 2017

Turning US sci-fi television into 21st century theatre is oddly successful as a portent of doom in a world increasingly incapable of separating fact from fiction


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