Theatre
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The Play What I Wrote: a ‘daft and delightful’ celebration of Morecambe & Wise
The Week Recommends This stage comedy show is the ‘ideal winter warmer’
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Life of Pi on stage: the ‘spiritual successor to War Horse’
The Week Recommends What the critics are saying about this ‘phenomenal’ adaptation of Yann Martel’s novel
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Manor at the National Theatre: a ‘breathtakingly inept’ satire
The Week Recommends New ‘state-of-the-nation’ drama mystifies, bores and slowly enrages
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The Wife of Willesden: Zadie Smith’s ‘rambunctious’ reworking of Chaucer
The Week Recommends Kiln Theatre production is a ‘stunning piece of freewheeling stagecraft’, said The Times
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane: ‘shows like this don’t come along very often’
The Week Recommends Critics praise ‘hauntingly memorable’ performance with some ‘genuinely terrifying’ moments
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The Magician’s Elephant: a remarkable feat of large-scale puppetry
The Week Recommends RSC’s big Christmas show features a convincing life-sized elephant, with a ‘playful trunk, flappy ears and mournful eyes’
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Wuthering Heights on stage: an ‘emotionally epic’ adaptation
The Week Recommends Emma Rice’s touring production is packed with her ‘trademark troubadour quirkiness’
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The Tragedy of Macbeth: Saoirse Ronan’s ‘spellbinding’ British stage debut
The Week Recommends ‘Psychological terror’ too slow to materialise, though when it does arrive it is ‘brute, unrestrained and blood-curdling’
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The Mirror and the Light on stage – what the critics are saying
The Week Recommends Adaptation of Hilary Mantel’s final book of trilogy pulls off ‘extraordinary achievement’ in ‘making history live’
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Dracula: The Untold Story – what the critics are saying
The Week Recommends This ‘hypnotically’ watchable show, a co-production with Leeds Playhouse, presents an alternative history of the 20th century
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Back to the Future musical: a crowd-pleasing ‘triumph’
The Week Recommends Marty, the Doc and the DeLorean hit 88mph at the Adelphi Theatre
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Frozen the Musical: what the critics are saying
The Week Recommends Stage production is ‘breathtaking’ but film’s ‘weak story’ and gaping ‘plot holes’ have not been resolved
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Bedknobs and Broomsticks on stage: ‘a B-list Disney film, but an A-list adaptation’
The Week Recommends There are some odd tonal shifts, but this musical has ‘undeniable charm and wit‘
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Theatre in review: what the critics are saying about Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cinderella
The Week Recommends Oscar-winner Emerald Fennell’s rebooted storyline and dialogue have ‘heart’ as well as ‘barbed wit’
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