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Twists in the tale: Jaja’s African Hair Braiding explores immigrant experience through a day at the salon

As Jocelyn Bioh’s play about life in a Harlem hairdresser’s gets a London run, she and director Monique Touko explain why its story of west Africans styling themselves for life in the US will resonate across the Atlantic

The Guardian - UK

Sing Street at Lyric Hammersmith review: has the energy and immediacy of your favourite band’s first gig

Sing Street at Lyric Hammersmith review: has the energy and immediacy of your favourite band’s first gig

4/5 This delightful show’s catchy, uplifting music is boosted by an incredible band and charming cast

Evening Standard

Marriage Material at the Lyric Hammersmith review: a raucously funny and often moving family saga

Marriage Material at the Lyric Hammersmith review: a raucously funny and often moving family saga

4/5 Even when it stretches plausibility – those wigs! – this sprawling immigrant aspiration story is a pleasure to watch

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A Raisin in the Sun at the Lyric Hammersmith review: a delight and a revelation

A revival of Lorraine Hansberry’s pioneering 1959 play has been a long time coming: this is magisterial

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Fangirls review – sugar rush musical turns a teen crush criminal

An infatuated teenager’s fantasy of saving a star from his fame clashes with the reality of frenemies and family frictions in an operatic plot

The Guardian - UK

School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play at Lyric Hammersmith review: that’s so fetch

Bioh’s dialogue fizzes with both laugh-out-loud quips and savage insults

Evening Standard

The Good Person of Szechwan at the Lyric Hammersmith review: slick, kitsch and buckets of fun

There’s a distinctive feel to Lyric Hammersmith shows that’s like nothing you’ll find at other London theatres

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Othello at Lyric Hammersmith review: a powerful study in male brutality

Othello at Lyric Hammersmith review: a powerful study in male brutality

This dynamic production moves the play to a spectacularly grim working-class pub

Evening Standard

The best theatre of 2022

The best theatre of 2022

In a superb year for the stage, our chief critic gives 10 shows an extra round of applause. Plus, Guardian theatre reviewers each pick their 2022 standout

The Guardian - UK

Jack and the Beanstalk review – sumptuously OTT panto has a big heart

Jack and the Beanstalk review – sumptuously OTT panto has a big heart

A streetwise Jack sells his cow for a tin of baked beans in this sugar rush of a show, which is underpinned with an anti-greed moral about the collective good

The Guardian - UK

‘A call to arms’: Sophie Melville returns to furious drama about austerity’s brutal impact

‘A call to arms’: Sophie Melville returns to furious drama about austerity’s brutal impact

It was her breakout role – and now the actor is starring once more in Gary Owen’s Iphigenia in Splott, a play that resonates with her personally and politically

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The theatre tickets to book in London in autumn 2022 - snap them up now!

The theatre tickets to book in London in autumn 2022 - snap them up now!

From a non-binary Joan of Arc to David Tennant as a Nazi and Chekhov in space, it’s one hell of a season on London’s stages

Evening Standard

Nathaniel Curtis: ‘I’m tall, I’m half-Indian – the opportunities weren’t there five years ago’

Nathaniel Curtis: ‘I’m tall, I’m half-Indian – the opportunities weren’t there five years ago’

The ‘It’s a Sin’ star waited half a decade for a decent gig – now he’s nabbed a major lead role on stage. He talks to Isobel Lewis about ‘Britannicus’ at the Lyric Hammersmith and why Russell T Davies’s Aids drama was so groundbreaking

The Independent UK

Actor Nathaniel Curtis: ‘I realised It’s a Sin was a hit when Elton John called’

Actor Nathaniel Curtis: ‘I realised It’s a Sin was a hit when Elton John called’

The actor on breaking through in C4’s It’s a Sin, his title role on stage in Britannicus – and always being seen as ‘the tall one with the long hair’

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When Covid shut the theatres, I became my mother’s carer. Returning feels defiant

The pandemic closed the play I was starring in, the last my mum, Diana Rigg, ever saw. Two years on, staging a scandalous new play at the same theatre is cause for celebration

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