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Cinderella review – rapping mice, a magical microwave and some spellbinding songs

Amid the noise and bustle there’s an affecting relationship struggling to emerge in Chris Bush and Roni Neale’s witty show

The Guardian - UK

The week in theatre: Otherland; Backstroke – review

Chris Bush’s insightful take on the trans experience drifts into the fantastical; Tamsin Greig and Celia Imrie spar as discomfited daughter and unabashed mother

The Guardian - UK

Otherland review – touchingly relatable trans drama

Brimming with humour and compassion, the story of Jo and Harry, a couple who go their separate ways, is a powerful reminder of how theatre lets us live beyond our own bodies

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Otherland at the Almeida Theatre review: this play about the trans experience is lively, humane and erratic

3/5 Featuring a firecracker performance from Jade Anouka, Otherland tackles hot button issues with sensitivity and compassion

Evening Standard

‘It is absolutely, fundamentally not autobiography’: Chris Bush on her new play about the trans experience

The award-winning British dramatist had a huge hit with her Richard Hawley musical Standing at the Sky’s Edge. Her latest, Otherland, is a much more personal piece – and, she says, frightening

The Guardian - UK

James Graham unveils AI comedy at ‘greatest hits’ gala for Paines Plough

Playwrights and actors paid homage to the small but mighty UK theatre company that nurtured them, as part of a fundraising initiative for new writers

The Guardian - UK

Robin Hood and the Christmas Heist review – musical take on robbing the rich to feed the poor

Marian and Robin plan to steal Prince John’s gold in this musical take on the Sherwood adventures

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‘Lady Gaga went to our chippy’: how Yorkshire became a cultural powerhouse

English Teacher won the Mercury prize, Amy Gledhill won the Edinburgh comedy award – and now even Beyoncé wants a piece of the action. Why has ‘God’s own county’ become such an artistic force?

The Guardian - UK

A Doll’s House review – stark production lifts the lid on Ibsen’s box of secrets

With few directorial flourishes and a compelling central performance, this bare-bones version of the domestic drama gives the story its full due

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"Build a portfolio that highlights what you value most”: a day in the life of Chris Bush

Nexer Digital’s head of design discusses the value of human-centred design.

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‘The story tells itself’: Richard Hawley, Sheffield’s greatest export, gets city’s biggest honour

The acclaimed singer and composer is ‘mind-blown’ after receiving the coveted maker’s mark

The Guardian - UK

On my radar: Chris Bush’s cultural highlights

The award-winning playwright on one of pop’s most extraordinary voices, role-playing drag queens and the scathing wit of her favourite foodie website

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Safe pair of hands or time for a shakeup: who’s going to get the biggest job in UK theatre?

After Rufus Norris’s departure from the National Theatre, who is most likely to be the London powerhouse’s next artistic director? We look at eight potential candidates

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Travelling Homer: how the National Theatre is staging a multi-city Odyssey

In episodes developed with communities around England, the production aims to tell ‘a story of resilience and healing and hope’

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Standing at the Sky’s Edge review – Richard Hawley pulls on the heartstrings in his Sheffield opus

This new musical traces the intersecting lives of three families on the Park Hill estate in this spine-tingling and sentimental love song to the steel city

Evening Standard

Standing at the Sky’s Edge at the National Theatre review: a stirring musical reinforced with Sheffield steel

Defiantly wedded to Sheffield, this uplifting musical has a universal message about community and gentrification

The Independent UK

Jodie Comer, a gen-Z Elle Woods and a giant swimming pool: The best theatre of 2022, ranked

The Independent’s theatre critics have chosen their top stage shows of 2022, a year in which fresh new writing and charming musicals reigned supreme

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The week in theatre: Rock/ Paper/ Scissors; The Fellowship

Timing is everything in Chris Bush’s theatre-hopping trio of Sheffield plays; the same goes for Roy Williams’s ill-starred new Windrush generation drama

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Fantastically Great Women Who Changed the World review – superhero sisters

Rousing children’s musical provides a zippy guide to the great women of history that sets toes tapping and young minds alight

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Rock/Paper/Scissors review – sharp-edged trilogy celebrates a city in flux

Sheffield TheatresChris Bush’s audacious production, performed simultaneously by the same cast across three theatres, intertwines comedy, romance and political rage to dazzling effect

The Independent UK

Chris Bush: ‘If it feels more like sport than theatre, we’ve missed the point’

Chris Bush, aka Sheffield’s Shakespeare, will have opened eight shows by the end of the year. She tells Isobel Lewis about her audacious trilogy ‘Rock/Paper/Scissors’ and her musical about feminist heroes from history

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