Theatre
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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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2:22 A Ghost Story review: Lily Allen makes a triumphant stage debut
The Week Recommends People are snapping up tickets to see this ‘chilling romp’ at the Noël Coward Theatre
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Theatre in review: what the critics are saying about Anything Goes at the Barbican
The Week Recommends ‘I would give it six stars if I could’
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Theatre in review: Joseph, Oleanna and Hymn
The Week Recommends Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat is ‘firing on all cylinders’, says The Guardian
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Theatre in review: Hamlet, The Comedy of Errors and Pride and Prejudice
The Week Recommends The opening night of Ian McKellen’s ‘age-blind’ Hamlet felt like an ‘act of defiance’, says The Daily Telegraph
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Theatre in review: South Pacific, Anna X and ‘country-comedy’ opera L’amico Fritz
The Week Recommends Just to see ‘a large cast dancing and singing its lungs out feels like witnessing an act of rebirth’
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