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The Witches, National Theatre, review: Roald Dahl's classic is given a magical - if sanitised - makeover
The National Theatre's big Christmas production is charmingly exuberant - but oddly light on drama
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Frozen The Musical: a West End spectacle of the most magical kind
Michael Grandage’s production is as staggeringly good as ever, and it remains a perfect way of introducing children to the theatre
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The Play That Goes Wrong: seldom has disaster delivered so many belly laughs
Like an am-dram Agatha Christie-style whodunnit where nothing goes according to plan, this riotously funny show continues to delight
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Six: Henry VIII’s fabulous queens will rule the West End for years to come
Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss's smash-hit Tudor pop-concert has a new cast at London's Vaudeville Theatre - and it's better than ever
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Backstairs Billy: Penelope Wilton makes a marvellous Queen Mother in the best royal drama in a decade
This play about the late Queen Mother's relationship with her steward is the best way to honour the royal's undersung life
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To Have and To Hold: this entertaining, poignant play positions Richard Bean as Alan Bennett’s heir apparent
Richard Wilson co-directs a new domestic drama at Hampstead Theatre that weds superb banter to an elegiac portrait of parental frailty
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I Need That: less a fresh new piece of theatre, more The Danny DeVito Show
Starring on Broadway opposite his daughter Lucy, DeVito has great fun as a hoarder, but the play is too superficial to do him full justice
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The Interview: thought-provoking Bashir-gate drama underplays his deception of Princess Diana
Yolanda Kettle shines as Diana in Jonathan Maitland's intelligent but limited play about the now discredited Panorama interview
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A Christmas Carol – A Ghost Story: Keith Allen’s Scrooge is full of comic bluster but doesn’t raise the spirits
If the star doesn't convey the central miser's redemptive arc, there's still lots to enjoy in this revival of Mark Gatiss's eerie production
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The Time Traveller’s Wife: this saccharine musical is unlikely to stand the test of time
Joanna Woodward is a strong lead and the stage effects are super, but Audrey Niffenegger’s novel translates awkwardly into musical theatre
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King Lear, review: Branagh’s playful, furious, magnificent Lear is too big for this production
Our greatest living Shakespearean finally takes on Shakespeare's greatest role in a pared-down staging that doesn't quite do him justice
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Sputnik Sweetheart: a brilliant yet maddening Haruki Murakami adaptation
Bryony Lavery and Melly Still's production is full-blooded and gorgeously expressive, but the plotting leaves you floundering
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Trueman and the Arsonists: this absurdist satire fails to ignite
This musical version of Max Frisch's 1953 drama doesn't fully land but could well rekindle interest in the largely forgotten playwright
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To Wong Foo The Musical: a smart and savvy take on the Patrick Swayze camp classic
This dazzling and unapologetically sentimental adaptation of the 1995 film shows how innovative the small Hope Mill Theatre is
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Romeo & Juliet: a modern Mancunian makeover that’s less radical than it thinks
This well-intentioned relocation of Shakespeare's tragedy boasts some fine performances but is in fact disappointingly conventional
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Lyonesse: Kristin Scott Thomas and Lily James do their best in another ‘all men are bad’ morality play
The stars acquit themselves well in Penelope Skinner's new drama, but its demonising of the entire male sex gives it the whiff of a lecture
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Clyde’s: a mouthwatering kitchen drama from one of America’s finest
Lynn Nottage's blisteringly funny play about a group of ex-convicts working in a truck stop diner will leave you drooling
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Bernie Dieter’s Club Kabarett, Underbelly Boulevard: jaw-dropping cabaret from an exciting new venue
Having been shut down by the pandemic, the now rebranded Soho club is back – and this evening of sultry entertainment proves an ideal opener
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Cowbois: a queer Western at the RSC? It’s a wild ride
Charlie Josephine's raucous new play sends up Western tropes and gender norms to exhilarating effect
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The Confessions: 20th-century history has never felt so heartbreakingly personal
Alexander Zeldin's latest, riveting, deeply stirring play shows the last half of the 1900s via one woman's often harsh experiences of it
