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BIZARRE: 6 - What They Never Told You

Somerset Maugham: a wily playwright of light dramas and weighty morals

A new revival of The Circle is a reminder of a dramatist who smuggled vital messages into broad crowdpleasers

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The week in classical: Innocence; Sakari Oramo/BBCSO; Explore Ensemble – review

A big week for Finnish music and musicians led by Kaija Saariaho’s powerful opera about a school shooting, and a thrilling Bartok performance

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Blue review – racial violence, love and loss in a lyrical and angry work of unflinching power

Jeanine Tesori’s opera, with its tragically familiar narrative of police brutality, is compellingly told in Tinuke Craig’s nuanced production for English National Opera.

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Nederlands Dans Theater review – a moving menagerie from a world in crisis

Figures in Extinction [1.0], a Crystal Pite and Simon McBurney collaboration, is the climax to a triple bill featuring excellent technique and film noir atmosphere

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Innocence review – Saariaho’s iridescent score keeps the harrowing drama at arm’s length

Dealing with the terrible aftermath of a school shooting, this production is sensitively staged and sung but its characters fail to come into focus and the beauty of the music ultimately works against the drama

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Hamnet review – slick adaptation captures Shakespeare’s horrified unravelling

Lolita Chakrabarti’s staging of Maggie O’Farrell’s moving novel about the death of the playwright’s son – and his resurrection in Hamlet – is powerfully played, with the occasional cheesy line

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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

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Sugar Coat review – a rocking coming-of-age story of trauma and healing

Headbanging frontwoman Dani Heron moves from schoolgirl sex, parties and music-making to teen pregnancy, miscarriage, rape and depression

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Cinderella review – Ashton’s classic fairytale with extra frills

Marianela Nuñez, Vadim Muntagirov and company shine – as do their costumes – in the Royal Ballet’s over-the-top new design of this intricate work

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The week in classical: The Dead City; Black Angels; Re:sound – review

ENO give a thoughtful account of Korngold’s uneven study of loss; Manchester Collective revel in an eerie George Crumb masterpiece; and Streetwise Opera tell a five-star tale of three cities

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Cinderella review – Royal Ballet fairytale is a shiny sugar-rush

Ashton’s three-act ballet combines escapism, clever classicism and panto, and this new version gets better as it goes along

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The Dead City review – study of grief, guilt and obsession unsettles and enraptures

Annilese Miskimmon’s new production of Korngold’s hallucinatory 1920 work sacrifices some of its disturbing power but musically it is magnificently alert to the mood-shifts and beauty of its sound-world

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Killing the Cat review – musical about science v God is purr-gatory

A talented cast can’t save this bizarre production about a holiday romance dogged by a conflict in ideology

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The Three Billy Goats Gruff review – captivates right to the final bleat

Musical for over-threes has belting solos, full-throttle yodelling and an operatic troll with a whiff of Lloyd Webber’s Phantom

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Tom Dale Company review – a mesmerising union of sound and movement

Jemima Brown excels in a cleverly assembled, four-way collaboration between choreographer, dancer, music and design

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Noël Coward was not just an amiable jester but a scathing social satirist

He presented himself as a message-free entertainer but, 50 years after his death, it is time to reconsider the variety of the great playwright’s work

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The Way Old Friends Do review – super troupers shine in a fun, frothy comedy

Two friends put together an Abba tribute band and explore ideas of male friendship, homophobia and family in Ian Hallard’s witty play

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Farm Hall review – riveting wartime thriller shows secret mission to bug German nuclear scientists

As the race to produce the first atomic bomb nears its terrible conclusion in 1945, six members of Germany’s nuclear weapons programme are detained at a stately home in Cambridgeshire

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Turn it Out with Tiler Peck & Friends review – pure dance at its breathtaking best

A virtuoso lineup join the New York City Ballet principal for an eclectic programme celebrating the shared pleasure of music, rhythm and athleticism

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The week in theatre: Top Girls; The Great British Bake Off Musical; Sleepova; Oklahoma! – review

A revival of Caryl Churchill’s female power play has yet to settle; Paul and Prue become song-and-dance naturals; a fab four get ready for bed; and who can say no to this Rodgers and Hammerstein reinvention

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After the Act review – Thatcher’s section 28 stirs a fiery protest musical

Ellice Stevens and Billy Barrett’s fizzing production traces the story of the Tories’ anti-gay legislation

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Woolf Works review – Alessandra Ferri goes deeper in Wayne McGregor’s modern masterpiece

The Italian star graces a flawless revival of McGregor’s dreamlike 2015 ballet inspired by the writings of Virginia Woolf

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How to Break Out of a Detention Centre review – daring staging of migrants’ stories

The desperate extremity of women’s experiences trapped in the UK immigration system gets an intense multimedia treatment

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The Merchant of Venice 1936 review – Shylock takes on Oswald Mosley’s Blackshirts

A striking, slick adaptation of Shakespeare’s problematic play sees Tracy-Ann Oberman play a Jewish matriarch up against the fascists of 1930s London

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Sleepova review – a captivating safe space for teenage dreams and fears

Four girls joke, squabble and share their secrets in this exhilarating tableau of young friendship starring Rocks’ Bukky Bakray

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