This is no easy star vehicle – it’s a bold challenge to the great French actor’s technique, charisma and rigour and she rises to it
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Twelfth Night at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre review: stylish and surprisingly sexy Shakespeare
by News Roomby News RoomThis playful and gorgeously designed take on a perennial favourite is only marred by a lack of pace
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Spirited Away at the Coliseum review: this Studio Ghibli show is relentlessly inventive but is just too long
by News Roomby News RoomThe show captures scale and perspective in a way theatre rarely achieves but it’s not entirely clear who it’s aimed at
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Songbirds, a chandelier and no green: how Theatre Royal Haymarket’s historic star dressing room was remade
by News Roomby News RoomMeanwhile, The Portrait of Dorian Grey has been picking up rave reviews: “Whether you enjoy this show as a star vehicle, a Wildean debate on morality versus self-expression, or a…
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Much Ado About Nothing at Shakespeare’s Globe review: this sunkissed production is joyful and intelligent
by News Roomby News RoomAmalia Vitale and Ekow Quartey are arch and spirited as the central, wittily unwilling lovers
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London Tide’s Bella Maclean on making her National debut, Sex Education and starring in Jilly Cooper’s Rivals
by News Roomby News RoomIt’s something Maclean, who is looking elegant in a dark striped suit, has been thinking about a lot, and points to an essay Power sent the cast about how Dickens’…
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The Cherry Orchard at the Donmar Warehouse review: bold, brilliant and utterly captivating take on Chekhov
by News Roomby News RoomHits the play’s poles of tragedy and comedy with devastating accuracy
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Laughing Boy at Jermyn Street Theatre review: shocking social care drama feels hideously timely
by News Roomby News RoomThis tragic true story is powerful as an act of representation and testimonial, even if it’s a flawed show
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Minority Report at Lyric Hammersmith review: sci-fi thriller is by turns smart and daft, mindbending and lame
by News Roomby News RoomWhy doesn’t theatre do more sci-fi? This adaptation of Philip K Dick’s novella may offer some answers
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The Comeuppance at the Almeida review: death stalks a school reunion in this dark but laugh-aloud drama
by News Roomby News RoomThe presentation of wry, dry death, calmly embodied by each of the characters is the only non-naturalistic element of Eric Ting’s warm, carefully paced production, designed by Arnulfo Maldonado, which…