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To Kill a Mockingbird: a ‘powerfully uplifting’ theatrical event
The Week Recommends Aaron Sorkin’s script makes this 62-year-old literary classic ‘feel like it was minted yesterday’
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Straight Line Crazy: David Hare’s ‘most dramatically gripping’ play for decades
The Week Recommends Ralph Fiennes is a ‘triumph’ as the controversial urban planner Robert Moses
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Kes review: a play that’s both bleak and brilliant
The Week Recommends Atri Banerjee’s adaptation of the 1968 novel features just three actors on a simple set
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Persuasion review: a ‘frolicking, rollicking’ take on Jane Austen’s novel
The Week Recommends This romcom is full of mischievous fun and is joyfully silly
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The Merchant of Venice: ‘utterly tragic, yet simultaneously mesmerising’
The Week Recommends This Shakespeare’s Globe production is set in contemporary London
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Animal Farm on stage: a ‘startlingly handsome’ production
The Week Recommends War Horse-style animal puppetry is used to ‘magnificent’ effect
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The Chairs review: the theatre of the absurd at its ‘most absurdist’
The Week Recommends The 1952 ‘absurdist masterpiece’ by Eugène Ionesco is now on at the Almeida
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A Number at the Old Vic: ‘a devastating drama about paternal neglect’
The Week Recommends Lyndsey Turner’s staging is ‘ignited’ by Lennie James and Paapa Essiedu
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Dr Semmelweis: Mark Rylance offers a ‘mesmerising turn’
The Week Recommends Story follows the 19th century Hungarian physician who ‘realised the life-saving value of hand hygiene’
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Moulin Rouge! on stage: ‘it burns prettily enough, but it doesn’t blaze’
The Week Recommends Tony-winning adaptation of Baz Luhrmann’s much-loved film now on at the Piccadilly Theatre
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Matthew Bourne’s Nutcracker! – a ‘riproaring return to form’
The Week Recommends Originally staged in 1992, this adaptation has been revived for the first time in ten years
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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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