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Miss Saigon review: Sheffield Theatres’ electrifying revival
The Week Recommends A ‘slick and visually captivating’ production, but not a ‘rigorous reimagining’
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As You Like It: a ‘good-natured comedic romp’
The Week Recommends Actors in their 60s, 70s and 80s unite in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre’s ‘poignant’ production
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Dear England review: James Graham ‘hits the back of the net’ once again
The Week Recommends This ‘wildly entertaining romp’ gives a vivid sketch of the England team before Southgate took over
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42nd Street review: new production has ‘energy and pizzazz’
The Week Recommends This musical is all about the big numbers – and they really are fabulous
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Groundhog Day review: a simply sublime return to The Old Vic
The Week Recommends ‘Marvellous’ adaptation of the 1993 film manages to be both ‘playful and profound’
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Jodie Comer: from Holby City to Hollywood
Why Everyone’s Talking About Actor has had a meteoric rise courtesy of award-winning performances in Killing Eve and now Prima Facie
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A Midsummer Night’s Dream review: an ‘assured’ new staging at the Globe
The Week Recommends This production of Shakespeare’s classic ‘doesn’t reinvent the wheel’ but it’s ‘gleeful’
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Anna Karenina review: ‘fluid and febrile’ adaptation of Tolstoy’s classic novel
The Week Recommends Lindsey Campbell gives a ‘terrific’ performance in the title role
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Operation Mincemeat review: ‘winning’ musical deserves to run and run
The Week Recommends This ‘gloriously inventive’ show tells the tale of an audacious wartime deception plot
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The Motive and the Cue review: a ‘heartfelt plea’ for the ‘power of theatre’
The Week Recommends Jack Thorne’s new play looks at Richard Burton and John Gielgud’s relationship during rehearsals for Hamlet in 1964
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Retrograde review: a ‘rousing and propulsive’ show at Kiln Theatre
The Week Recommends Ryan Calais Cameron’s ‘electrifying drama’ dramatises a pivotal moment in Sidney Poitier’s career
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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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