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Paddington The Musical tipped for glory at Olivier Awards

The musical has received rave reviews since opening at the Savoy Theatre in London in December.

Evening Standard

‘We had to stop the show 10 times’: Meet Rosie Sheehy, the Olivier nominee in the year’s most devastating play

INTERVIEW: The brilliant Welsh actor has been nominated for the Best Actress award for the second year running. She tells Ellie Harrison about starring in ‘Guess How Much I Love You?’, the play so sad she warned her own friends not to see it

The Independent UK

Paddington The Musical up for 11 Olivier Awards

Hollywood stars Rachel Zegler, Cate Blanchett and Rosamund Pike are also nominated for the awards, which celebrate their 50th anniversary this year.

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Guess How Much I Love You? review – shattering portrait of a pregnancy in crisis

Rosie Sheehy and Robert Aramayo excel as a couple reeling from an ultrasound scan in Luke Norris’s extraordinary play

The Guardian - UK

Guess How Much I Love You? at the Royal Court Theatre review: harrowingly powerful

4/5 Exceptional performances from Rosie Sheehy and Robert Aramayo drive this bleak and brutal play

Evening Standard

‘A new form of theater’: can Ian McKellen, 52 cameras and ‘mixed reality’ reinvent a medium?

At the Shed in New York, attendees wearing enhanced glasses are witnessing an experimental new play where actors appear in video form

The Guardian - US

The Brightening Air review – shades of Vanya as a Sligo family squabble, tease and wrestle

Terrific performances from Chris O’Dowd and Rosie Sheehy lead a populous family drama hinging on a broken-down country farmhouse

The Guardian - UK

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The Brightening Air at the Old Vic review: this slice of 1980s Irish life is hilarious and achingly moving

4/5 Conor McPherson is a singular writer and a phenomenal director

Evening Standard

‘To hell with RP’ … how surprise Olivier nominee Rosie Sheehy is following in Richard Burton’s footsteps

To survive in acting, she thought she had to nail received pronunciation. Then she remembered Port Talbot’s extraordinary lineage, reverted to her native accent – and everything changed

The Guardian - UK

An Interrogation at Hampstead Theatre review: Rosie Sheehy is utterly compelling

3/5 This tale of a detective interviewing a murder suspect is given added spice by the electric performances

Evening Standard

The week in theatre: Machinal; Blue Beard; The Cord – review

Richard Jones’s supercharged staging of Sophie Treadwell’s 1920s masterpiece hits like a fist; Emma Rice subverts a dark fairytale with circus gaiety; and a young couple unravel beautifully in Bijan Sheibani’s latest

The Guardian - UK

A Midsummer Night’s Dream review – characters mash, worlds invert and flames burst from fingers

Eleanor Rhode’s ravishing fusion of flamboyancy, surrealism and raucous fun rouses audiences in a youthful, energetic riot

The Guardian - UK

Critically acclaimed Machinal to transfer to the Old Vic with 'gobsmacking' lead Rosie Sheehy

Sophie Treadwell's 1928 play comes to London after a sell-out run at Theatre Royal Bath

Evening Standard

Machinal review – spare yet shocking revival of 1920s play on female criminality

An excellent cast give the story of Ruth Snyder, a woman executed by electric chair in 1928 for killing her husband, a cleverly inventive, chillingly modern update

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The best theatre to stream this month: Doctor Who does Shakespeare, and a visit to the nit nurse

Ncuti Gatwa stars in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Zadie Smith relocates Chaucer to Kilburn, plus dance, storytelling and fringe drama

The Guardian - UK

The week in theatre: Women, Beware the Devil; Romeo and Julie; Shirley Valentine – review

Director Rupert Goold and co have a field day with Lulu Raczka’s elusive new Jacobean folk horror; star-crossed Cardiff teenagers snare hearts and minds; and Sheridan Smith makes Willy Russell’s midlife monologue her own

Evening Standard

Romeo and Julie at the National Theatre review: an enthralling love story that asks big questions

It’s a Sin’s Callum Scott Howells is intensely watchable in a performance that gives off a low-key Paul Mescal vibe

The Guardian - UK

Babygrows are such sweet sorrow: Romeo and Juliet get a gritty romcom reboot

Romeo, an out-of-work single dad, falls for Julie, a top student who dreams of being an astrophysicist. We go behind the scenes at a Shakespeare update that swaps fair Verona for Splott in Cardiff

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Daily Mirror

Richard III: The RSC creates history with groundbreaking production

Arthur Hughes becomes the first disabled actor ever to perform the lead role as the wicked royal 'crookback' at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre

Daily Mirror

All's Well That Ends Well: Shakespeare for the Instagram generation

The Bard's dark 'problem play' is turbo-charged in a thrilling new production that takes it hurtling into the 21st century to give it new relevance

The Guardian - UK

All’s Well That Ends Well review – problem play gets a tasty Gen Z makeover

Rosie Sheehy dazzles as a woman calling the shots in this feverish production that underlines the play’s curious ambiguities

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