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Orlando at the Garrick Theatre review – Emma Corrin is captivating in this bold, tricksy experiment

Corrin anchors the show but it never feels like the emotional stakes are very high

Evening Standard

Orlando review – Emma Corrin is glorious in a giddy, heartfelt show

In Neil Bartlett’s adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s wild-goose chase through time, Corrin shines as the hero who falls asleep as a man and wakes as a woman

The Guardian - UK

Orlando review: Emma Corrin is magnificent as Woolf’s punk rock protagonist

Michael Grandage’s production has an inventiveness and creativity that’s true to the spirit of Virginia Woolf’s novel

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Youth theatre group gives teens a voice to explore their world

More than 800 young people have been involved with the group

Liverpool Echo

The Rock’n’Roll Panto Red Riding Hood review – music is the star in an Everyman institution

The eponymous fairytale does not lend itself easily to panto – requiring some princely interference – but the cast is exuberant

The Guardian - UK

Toxteth actor has lead in blockbusting rock ’n’ roll panto

Liverpool's Everyman Theatre kicked off their festive rock ‘n’ roll panto Red Riding Hood with plenty of plot twists with a brilliant performance by a great cast

Liverpool Echo

The Wizard of Oz review – carnivalesque trip down the Yellow Brick Road

Catwalk-ready costumes, expressive puppetry and a knockabout cast make this a fun, if rather cluttered, production

The Guardian - UK

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Alcina at the Royal Opera House review: spellbinding and unmissable

An endlessly inventive staging of Handel’s gloriously tuneful opera

Evening Standard

The week in theatre: Tammy Faye; Hamlet; Marvellous – review

Katie Brayben nails the title role in a musical otherwise lacking edge, Billy Howle makes a princely Hamlet and an all-new West End theatre is launched by an amazing life

The Guardian - UK

Tammy Faye: A New Musical review – Elton John’s hymn to biblical kitsch

Songs belt out deliriously in this romp through rise and fall of the Bakker televangelists and latterday gay icons – so thick and fast the James Graham script and Jake Shears lyrics are sometimes overwhelmed by glitz

The Guardian - UK

The Contingency Plan review – climate-crisis dramas on a human scale

Updated 13 years after their first showing, Steve Waters’ double bill of plays feels more urgent than before – while their personal dynamics hint at challenges yet to overcome

The Guardian - UK

Hamlet review – slick tragedy fuelled by fury

With inky backdrops, jagged sound and frenzied violence, John Haidar’s production stars Billy Howle as a prince emanating unhinged anger

The Guardian - UK

The week in theatre: Good; The Band’s Visit; The Boy With Two Hearts – review

As a mild-mannered German academic who drifts into becoming an SS officer, David Tennant is transfixing

The Guardian - UK

‘Fame, greed, redemption – the story is biblical’: behind the scenes of Tammy Faye

With songs by Elton John and Jake Shears and a script by James Graham, this new musical about the televangelist has a lot of talent behind it. The creative team explain how they brought her dramatic life story to the stage

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My Fair Lady musical coming back to Manchester - with EastEnders icon in leading role

The lavish production will see EastEnders legend Adam Woodyatt in a leading role for the show's big Manchester return

The Guardian - UK

The Band’s Visit review – entrancing musical about nothing and nowhere

When an Egyptian orchestra accidentally tips up in a sleepy Israeli backwater, lives are changed in the quietest of ways

The Guardian - UK

Blues for an Alabama Sky review – Harlem renaissance drama is a tale for our times

A group of friends in 1930s New York pursue diverging dreams in a transfixing production of Pearl Cleage’s play directed by Lynette Linton

The Guardian - UK

Othello review – taut update from the superb Watermill ensemble

An excellent cast animate Karla Marie Sweet’s adaptation with a drilled menace, while contemporary songs are employed to remarkable effect

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The Guardian - UK

The cold never bothered them anyway: how Frozen made musical magic

The set, costume, video and lighting designers of Disney’s London production – now in its second year in the West End – break the ice about the show’s frocks, crystals and astonishing effects

The Guardian - UK

Dawn French Is a Huge Twat review – mini-masterpieces of self-mockery

French heaps detail upon self-abasing detail as she shares hugely engaging stories from her 40-year career

The Guardian - UK

Into the Woods review – Terry Gilliam’s rollicking take on Sondheim’s ‘fairytale collision’

Terry Gilliam’s production is visually enticing, playful and dreamlike but doesn’t quite reach the mournful depths of parental anxiety that run through the story

The Guardian - UK

The week in theatre: Closer, The Tempest, The Darkest Part of the Night – review

Patrick Marber’s four-way passion play still adds up; Sean Holmes takes enjoyable liberties with his party island Tempest; and the heartfelt vies with the spelled out in Zodwa Nyoni’s new work

The Guardian - UK

The Tempest review – the bard in budgie smugglers

Sean Holmes’s gleefully comic take is a riot of holiday colour and fun, featuring luminous lilos, stag do bantz and a playful Prospero in eyewateringly tight trunks

The Guardian - UK

Billy Elliot the Musical review – the boy who just wants to dance is back in an electric new production

Nikolai Foster’s new version is more like a play with dance and songs, giving ideas around love and loss, community and isolation, passion and violence room to breathe

The Guardian - UK

Patriots review – Peter Morgan’s compelling study of Russian dissidence

Tom Hollander stars as Boris Berezovsky in The Crown creator’s new drama, which has a show-stealing performance by Will Keen as Vladimir Putin

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