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What a showstopper! How The Great British Bake off became a musical

From songs about slapping dough to scripting the perfect innuendo, the creators of a new musical explain the ingredients for bringing the wildly successful TV show to the stage

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Peaky Blinders: The Rise review – immersed in a criminally flimsy plot

Fans of the TV series may enjoy the period detail and atmosphere, but this immersive show is frustratingly light on story and drama

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Otello review – a truly compelling and long overdue revival

American tenor Russell Thomas – the first black man to sing the title role at Covent Garden – delivers a searing and shattering performance

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The Anarchist review – an innocent sense of humour amid political unrest

The first winner of the Woven Voices prize for migrant playwrights is an open-hearted play that layers a Belarusian woman’s past and present

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The week in classical: Alcina; The Blue Woman

Handel’s sorceress goes to the cabaret in Francesco Micheli’s fabulously glitzy production, while Katie Mitchell directs a powerful exploration of violence against women

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Objectified, derided, demeaned: sexism is still rampant on stage in the era of #MeToo

From Jerusalem and Pretty Woman to a 70s Alan Bennett farce, unreconstructed attitudes and old-fashioned smut still permeate British theatre. And irony is not much of a defence

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The Tempest review – Deborah Warner’s grimy island engrosses and disgusts

Ustinov, BathThe veteran director’s arrestingly visceral production honours the sheer strangeness of Shakespeare’s late play

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The Throne review – unexpected royal encounter goes down the pan

A meeting in a toilet between a republican teacher and the Queen is disappointingly amicable with few laughs

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‘It’s the Odyssey – the islands are Soho clubs’: Jack Holden on his 80s drama Cruise

The Ten Percent star’s solo show, which is returning to London’s West End, was inspired by his conversations with older gay men as a volunteer for Switchboard

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Alcina review – Handel’s enchanting opera glitters with retro glamour

Jane Archibald rises to the challenge as nightclub proprietor Alcina, as this lavish, campy production – with punchy playing by the OAE – transports the action to a 1960s Italian metropolis

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Favour review – a moving addiction drama with occasional lapses

Bush theatre, LondonThree generations of a working-class Muslim family clash in Ambreen Razia’s meditation on the complexities of motherhood

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Birmingham Royal Ballet: On Your Marks! review – Carlos Acosta sketches a bright future

The director manages to stretch ballet’s mould while retaining mass-market appeal with an exhilarating summer triple bill

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Rusalka review – Natalya Romaniw is a rapturously magnificent water nymph

Romaniw unleashes an overwhelming torrent of sound and emotion in a spectacular production that imbues Dvořák’s fairytale with sinister magic

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The Car Man; Like Water for Chocolate review – two narrative delights

Matthew Bourne and Christopher Wheeldon bring masterly cinematic power to their adaptations of Bizet’s Carmen and Laura Esquivel’s 1989 novel

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That Is Not Who I Am review – all is not what it seems in tricksy thriller about truth and power

One play reveals another in a tangled web that pits the Home Office against two Guardian blind-daters

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Elixir Extracts review – silver sirens steal the show

This mini festival celebrating the older dancer features powerful performers – and is defiantly not pretty

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Bangers review – a joyous party of a play celebrating the rousing power of music

Twin stories of self-discovery are enacted by scintillating, energetic performers stacked with natural talent

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Beyond black and yellowface: how opera can address prejudice

Madama Butterfly is one of many landmark works to embody offensive beliefs – but there are sensitive ways new productions can tackle these without cancelling them

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Grenfell review – so harrowing you will want to scream

Five years after the fire, this devastating verbatim play based on the Grenfell inquiry leaves the question hanging: 72 dead – so why still no arrests?

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Matthew Bourne’s The Car Man review – steamy dance thriller with a supercharged engine

Bourne’s 1950s potboiler has been beefed up for a larger venue. The result is classy, trashy – and deeply serious

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The Still Room review – a hideously misguided workplace sex comedy

Any earnest intentions in this 80s-set coming-of-age tale are ruined by odious vulgarity and lazy, Benny Hill-esque humour

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Cancelling Socrates review – Howard Brenton interrogates democracy in a rich play of ideas

Fine acting and lively dialogue save this philosophical play from feeling static as it applies Athenian ideals to modern dilemmas

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‘I feel like I’ve got the best job in the world!’ – Amy Lennox, the knockout star of Cabaret

As a kid growing up in Aberdeen, she rebelled against singing. Now she’s proving sensational in the classic Weimar musical – but finds its present-day parallels chilling

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Edinburgh fringe 2022: 20 theatre, comedy and dance shows you shouldn’t miss

In the first of our festival previews, we round up some of the best offerings we’ve already reviewed – including Tim Key, Liz Kingsman, La Clique and Hungry

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Grenfell on stage: can a harrowing new play help the drive for justice?

Dictating to the Estate uses documentary evidence to tell a story of everyday heroism and scandalous political neglect

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