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MYSTERIOUS: 3 - You Need To See This

The best theatre to see in September in London, from Waiting for Godot to Giant

We’ve picked out London’s top stage performances to watch this month

Evening Standard

School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play review – clever comedy leaves a stinging afterburn

Jocelyn Bioh’s bitingly funny and sometimes heartbreaking play transposes relatable high-school movie tropes to 1980s Ghana to explore beauty standards and colourism

The Guardian - UK

The week in theatre: Romeo and Juliet; When Winston Went to War With the Wireless; Groundhog Day – review

Danger stalks the radiant lovers in Rebecca Frecknall’s tumultuous, twilit Romeo and Juliet; a 1920s battle for the soul of BBC radio couldn’t be more timely; and Groundhog Day, once more with feeling

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When Winston Went to War With the Wireless review – radio is the star of BBC crisis drama

Jack Thorne’s dramatisation of the power play between the UK government and the broadcaster in 1920s Britain is pacy and evocative

The Guardian - UK

Groundhog Day review – repeat production makes for guaranteed entertainment

A revival of the musical at the same venue where it premiered combines clever staging, impeccable performances and Tim Minchin’s lyrical brilliance into a reassuringly familiar and enjoyable package

The Guardian - UK

Brokeback Mountain review – perfectly pitched staging of the heartbreaking love story

The desolately poignant tale is brought into stark relief in Jonathan Butterell’s production through Eddi Reader’s beautiful vocals and a compelling cast

The Guardian - UK

Brokeback Mountain review: This unsubtle adaptation leaves its stars stranded

Mike Faist and Lucas Hedges are underserved by a clunky production as Annie Proulx’s story reaches the stage

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Mother Goose review: Ian McKellen shines as new pantomime spares no remorse for Tory Britain

The production proved pantomimes don't have to be just for Christmas

Bristol Post

Richard III review – Adjoa Andoh’s maverick reimagining drags

The actor and director pitches the antihero as a racial outsider. She is compelling, but he is an inconsistent character in a production leached of intrigue

The Guardian - UK

The Dry House review – a mother hits rock bottom in gloriously cast alcoholism drama

The capacity to arrest our own destruction is central in Eugene O’Hare’s stark look at a woman struggling to cope after the death of her teenage daughter

The Guardian - UK

Olivier awards 2023: full list of winners

My Neighbour Totoro, A Streetcar Named Desire and Prima Facie were among the winners at the Royal Albert Hall ceremony

The Guardian - UK

The week in theatre: five stars for Guys & Dolls, plus Marjorie Prime and The Tragedy of Macbeth – review

The audience is swept along with the action in Nicholas Hytner’s thrillingly immersive new Guys and Dolls; Nancy Carroll and Anne Reid surf memory and identity; and Shakespeare’s witches multitask

The Guardian - UK

The Week on Stage: From Guys and Dolls to Further Than the Furthest Thing

A guide to the week’s theatre

The Independent UK

Marjorie Prime review – gently uncanny sci-fi shows us how to love an AI

Menier Chocolate Factory, LondonAnne Reid shines in this delicately written drama about a woman with dementia living with a robot re-creation of her late husband as a young man

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Guys and Dolls review – Nicholas Hytner’s gamble pays off

This immersive production of the New York musical has a bold design, superb singing and chemistry between its stars

The Independent UK

The Week on Stage: From The Great British Bake Off Musical to Bonnie and Clyde

A guide to the week’s theatre

Bristol Post

Sister Act at Bristol Hippodrome was 'hilarious, heartwarming and wonderfully camp'

A standing ovation on a Tuesday night is no mean feat

The Guardian - UK

The Time Machine: A Comedy review – malfunctioning merriment

This riff on HG Wells’s sci-fi novella has a sharp cast but relies on a wearisome play-within-a-play concept and lacks momentum

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Liverpool Echo

Ian McKellen and John Bishop make 'perfectly silly pair' in madcap Mother Goose at Liverpool Empire

The unlikely partnership came together for a night of fun "just because"

Liverpool Echo

John Bishop bringing 'most joyful' show he's worked on to Liverpool Empire this week

John will be starring in Mother Goose at Liverpool's Empire Theatre this week

The Guardian - UK

Trouble in Butetown review – humanity and heroism in wartime Cardiff

While Diana Nneka Atuona’s deft script could do with a final polish, its heart, humour and spirit sing in the hands of a luminous cast

The Guardian - UK

Sylvia review – storming show sets suffragettes to soul, funk and hip-hop

Historical characters bust contemporary dance moves while the troubled relationship between Sylvia Pankhurst and her mother Emmeline is laid bare

Manchester Evening News

Sir Ian McKellen and John Bishop bring hit panto Mother Goose to Salford for Easter

The starry panto has wowed audiences in London this Christmas - it will head to The Lowry for an Easter treat

The Guardian - UK

The week in theatre: As You Like It; Mandela; Kerry Jackson – review

Rose Ayling-Ellis stars in a fresh As You Like It; a Mandela musical can’t do the great man justice; and April De Angelis slips into two dimensions

The Independent UK

Dolly Parton’s Smoky Mountain Christmas Carol review: Tennessee-based Dickens retelling is heavy on the cheese

Classic Christmas tale is given the Parton treatment, in a saccharine musical with flashes of fun

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