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Piaf review – Audrey Brisson rises above the melee as the French singer

Pam Gems’s play with music loses focus with its small cast playing multiple characters – and musical instruments – but its star brings it all together

The Guardian - UK

The Autobiography of a Cad review – a playful mockery of entitlement and greed

A fine, multitasking cast of three deliver laughs aplenty in Ian Hislop and Nick Newman’s adaptation of a 1930s satire, though the cad’s true malice is lacking

The Guardian - UK

The Autobiography of a Cad review – Ian Hislop and Nick Newman retell a rotter’s political progress

The Private Eye duo adapt AG Macdonell’s satire showing how a privileged chancer in English public life gets away with it

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Calamity Jane review – mighty pretty music but this western could be wilder

A meandering musical based on the Doris Day movie delivers the sure-shot showtunes in style with a whipcracking lead in Carrie Hope Fletcher

The Guardian - UK

Michael Morpurgo’s Pinocchio review – there’s nothing wooden about this magical musical

A stupendous cast, outstanding stagecraft and delightful songs prove how thrilling an old story can become in the right hands

The Guardian - UK

Barnum review – dazzling all-singing, all-juggling musical

There are somersaults, pivots and tumbles aplenty in this gleeful tribute to the 19th-century circus showman turned politician

The Guardian - UK

Sherlock Holmes and the Whitechapel Fiend; Sherlock Holmes and the Poison Wood – review

The deductive powers of the famous sleuth are put to new uses in these inventive if patchy modern interpretations, one playful, the other musical

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The Lord of the Rings review: an enchanting musical at Watermill Theatre

When it came to the West End in 2007, “The Lord of the Rings” was a “notorious flop”, said Dominic Cavendish in The Daily Telegraph. A spectacular mega-musical, incorporating folk, Bollywood influences and pop, it had cost a record-breaking £12.5m to stage, at the 2,000- seat Theatre Royal Drury Lane,…

The Week

The Suspicions of Mr Whicher review – true crime classic turned into tense drama

Kate Summerscale’s Victorian potboiler is deftly condensed in a production that brings out the misogyny and class snobbery of the era

The Guardian - UK

Visitors review – searing study of ageing family frictions

Barney Norris’s revival radiates the pain of older parents trapped on deteriorating paths, while their son and end-of-life au pair struggle to find their own

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

The Guardian - UK

Whistle Down the Wind review – fiery revival of Lloyd Webber’s unloved show

New production reshapes the 1996 original set in rural Louisiana as a taut fable of faith and fear

The Guardian - UK

Our Man in Havana review – Graham Greene classic becomes a clever musical

The actor-musicians deserve an award for multitasking here, switching between roles and instruments in a production exploring lying and dual identities

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