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The rapid-fire brilliance of Tom Stoppard
In the Spotlight The 88-year-old was a playwright of dazzling wit and complex ideas
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All My Sons: ‘epic and timeless’ theatre starring Bryan Cranston
The Week Recommends Ivo van Hove’s production of Arthur Miller’s classic play assumes the ‘grim yet towering momentum’ of a Greek tragedy
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‘Chess’
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The best Christmas theatre shows across the UK
The Week Recommends Tip-top festive ballets, plays and comedies to book up now
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Othello: a ‘deeply nasty tale of murder and manipulation’
The Week Recommends Toby Jones and David Harewood star in Tom Morris’s take on Shakespeare’s tragedy
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Dead Man Walking: searing contemporary opera is a ‘triumph’
The Week Recommends Death row drama ‘deals with the very essence of morality, judgement and conscience’
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Macbeth: a ‘genuinely scary’ production
The Week Recommends Daniel Raggett’s nightmarish modern-day staging is set in a boozer in gangland Glasgow
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Theater review: Masquerade
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Broadway actors and musicians are on the brink of a strike
The explainer The show, it turns out, may not go on
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Cyrano de Bergerac: a ‘huge-hearted’ production
The Week Recommends This ‘playful’ and ‘poignant’ rendition brings new life to the ‘gilet-sporting, verse-spouting’ titular soldier
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Waiting for Godot
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The Harder They Come: ‘triumphant’ adaptation of cinema classic
The Week Recommends ‘Uniformly excellent’ cast follow an aspiring musician facing the ‘corruption’ of Kingston, Jamaica
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Lord of the Flies: William Golding’s modern classic is brought to ‘thrilling life’
The Week Recommends Anthony Lau’s ‘searing’ staging is anchored by an ‘extraordinary’ cast
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Theater review: Yasmina Reza’s Art
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