Theatre
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Sweeney Todd: a ‘deliciously blood-curdling production’The Week Recommends Joe Murphy’s vision for Stephen Sondheim’s 1979 musical is ‘sure to bring goosebumps of excitement’
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Jesus Christ Superstar: a ‘welcome return of the Bible belter’The Week Recommends Sam Ryder ‘ambushes’ West End audiences with ‘surges of emotional force’
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The Truth: a ‘seat-shakingly funny’ farceThe Week Recommends Stephen Mangan shines in Florian Zeller's ‘double helix’ of marital deceit
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Summer Holiday the Musical: an ‘immensely good-humoured and infectious show’The Week Recommends The reimagined 1960s hit puts new energy into Cliff Richard’s classics
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Much Ado About Nothing: a Shakespearean ‘summer blockbuster’The Week Recommends With ‘simply gorgeous’ costumes, dance and music, the Globe’s ‘charming’ production is ‘eminently worth seeing’
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Under the Shadow: ‘nerve-shredding’ production ‘could scarcely be timelier’The Week Recommends Carmen Nasr’s production set during the Iran-Iraq war is ‘intriguing and always watchable’
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High Society: a ‘gorgeously glamorous’ spectacleThe Week Recommends Helen George and Freddie Fox star in the ‘dazzling’ Cole Porter musical
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The Tempest: an ‘enchanting’ production starring Kenneth BranaghThe Week Recommends Legendary director Richard Eyre’s Stratford debut brings ‘masques, magic and monsters’
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Care: ‘profoundly moving’ play set in nursing home for elderlyThe Week Recommends ‘Powerful’ show that’s ‘unbearably touching’ at times
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1536: a ‘once-in-a-blue-moon theatrical experience’The Week Recommends ‘Sharp-tongued’ play focused on the lives of three young women, set in the month of Anne Boleyn’s arrest, trial and execution
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Fourteen Again: a ‘smartly funny evocation of female friendship’ that’s ‘hard to resist’The Week Recommends Musical pays tribute to the late comic Victoria Wood
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A Midsummer Night’s Dream: an ‘effervescent’ new interpretationThe Week Recommends A ‘lively, progressive’ take in Birmingham has similar feel to Globe’s ‘effervescent comic performances’
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The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui: a ‘magnificent’ tragicomic satireThe Week Recommends Mark Gatiss is ‘hypnotic’ in Bertolt Brecht’s parable about Hitler’s rise to power
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Avenue Q: a ‘fundamentally big-hearted show’The Week Recommends ‘Big-hearted’ revival returns to the West End with more ‘saucy comedy’
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