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Manville's win marks her second Olivier, following her 2014 triumph for her performance in a revival of the Ibsen play Ghosts.

Whatever your jam, be it painting, photography or sculpture, Beyoncé, Boulez or AC/DC, “Hamlet,” Ibsen, stand-up or show tunes, our critics have a recommendation for you.

I recall a starry revival of “A Doll’s House” many years ago that made me want to dismiss Ibsen’s play as creakily obsolete.

For me, I had to stretch outside of my safety of Ibsen, Shakespeare, and into a whole different world.

Shakespeare, Ibsen, Chekhov, Beckett, the ancient Greek tragedians and Tennessee Williams were among the voices who originally called out to me.