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Dancing at Lughnasa review: ‘a beautiful production of a beautiful play’
The Week Recommends ‘Handsome’ revival at the National Theatre is a nostalgic but nuanced ‘delight’
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Hamnet review: ‘beautifully acted’ but doesn’t ‘pierce the heart’
The Week Recommends Swan Theatre reopens with stage adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s bestselling novel
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A Little Life review: a ‘grisly spectacle’ starring James Norton
The Week Recommends Norton excels in this accurate and ‘chilling’ depiction of the long-term effects of abuse
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Agreement review: ‘compelling political thriller’ with a first-rate cast
The Week Recommends Owen McCafferty’s new play focuses on the negotiations leading up to the Good Friday Agreement
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Guys and Dolls review: a ‘solid-gold’ revival at the Bridge Theatre
The Week Recommends There’s world-class singing and dancing in a show that ‘raises the bar’
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The Comedy of Errors (more or less) review: Shakespeare with a fun twist
The Week Recommends Contemporary spin on the Bard’s comedy is ‘quite mad’, but has ‘plenty of laughs’
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Shirley Valentine review: Sheridan Smith is ‘dazzling’ in one-woman play
The Week Recommends Smith delivers a ‘continuously enrapturing’ performance at Duke of York’s Theatre
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Blaze of Glory! review: ‘emphatically Welsh’ opera is perfectly pitched
The Week Recommends This show tells the story of Welsh miners trying to raise spirits after a mining disaster
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Medea review: Dominic Cooke’s staging is subtle but brilliant
The Week Recommends @sohoplace is the ‘ideal’ setting for ‘this gripping new production’
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Phaedra review: a ‘gobsmackingly audacious’ spin on the Greek myth
The Week Recommends Janet McTeer leads a superb cast but the play is fatally flawed
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The Tempest review: Alex Kingston gives a ‘revelatory’ performance as Prospero
The Week Recommends Royal Shakespeare Theatre’s new production is ‘inspired’ in part, but has ‘rather clunky’ moments
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Noises Off review: a first-rate staging of a masterpiece
The Week Recommends The revival of this silly play ‘crackles’ with comedic genius – it is an ‘utter treasure’
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Cirque du Soleil: Kurios review – a ‘weird and wondrous‘ show
The Week Recommends This ‘steampunk‘ production is Cirque du Soleil’s 35th ‘world-conquering‘ spectacular
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Mother Goose review: a ‘cheerfully chaotic’ panto where Ian McKellen steals the show
The Week Recommends If this is McKellen’s swansong, then ‘what a happy and glorious way to go’
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