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The Pirates of Penzance at the London Coliseum review: bold, bright and inviting as a comic strip

4/5 Mike Leigh’s take on the production is comparatively sober, but don’t worry: there’s still humour in spades

Evening Standard

Shifters review – drama of first love lost has giddy kisses and real heart

Benedict Lombe questions ideas around abuse, grief and the Black body in this meet-again-cute starring Tosin Cole and Heather Agyepong

The Guardian - UK

One Last Push review – Chris Chibnall’s family farce about birth and beyond

A fitfully funny play from the creator of Broadchurch considers the terrifying prospects of parenthood yet never quite delivers

The Guardian - UK

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The playwrights fighting for the NHS: ‘We only engage in a moment of crisis’

From Michael Sheen’s portrayal of the organisation’s founder to a frank tale of the modern challenges faced by its staff, theatres are exploring the history, and fragile future, of our health service

The Guardian - UK

Branwen: Dadeni review – epic musical is a landmark in Welsh theatre

This Welsh-language retelling of an ancient myth is a huge endeavour, with great performances and lots of promise

The Guardian - UK

Ruddigore review – straight staging maroons G&S’s silly satire in the Victorian age

It’s a stretch to make this slight 19th-century satire speak to a modern audience, and tremendous singing is not enough to make it do so here

The Guardian - UK

Analysis: Donald Trump's war on truth confronts another test with voters

Now seeking a second term even as he fights federal charges, Donald Trump continues to shatter the norms of American politics

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Così fan tutte review – probing and insightful staging is wonderfully conducted by Karabits

Director Martin Lloyd-Evans prises open Mozart’s opera’s emotional complexity in a production that might be set in traditional dress but engages with today’s concerns

The Guardian - UK

Rigoletto review – Verdi’s jester locks horns with the Bullingdon Club

In an engaging but problematic staging, the Duke’s court is relocated to interwar Oxford, with Alison Langer’s beautifully sung Gilda a standout

The Guardian - UK

The Magic Flute review – WNO’s hectic new version is a lightsaber too far

Daisy Evans’ psychedelic and frantic modern reworking dodges the original’s problems, but loses much of Mozart’s magic and energy in the process – and the flute itself

The Guardian - UK

Review: Emilia staged by Bristol Old Vic Theatre School at Circomedia

What is fact and what is fiction in Sally Cookson's powerful production about one of the nation's first professional female poets is irrelevant, as an immensely talented cast put on a blistering performance

Bristol Post

The P Word review – an irresistible romance and so much more

Waleed Akhtar’s bewitching love story between a gym bunny and an asylum seeker raises urgent issues

The Guardian - UK

‘Anyone – you, me, everybody – could be Dalia’: Garsington’s refugee community opera

Performed by amateurs and professionals, Dalia – the tender story of a displaced girl who finds acceptance through cricket – is a rebuke to the UK’s increasingly cruel immigration policy

The Guardian - UK

Migrations review – ambitious and timely new opera examines freedom

Welsh National Opera’s staging of six stories of migration is a brave and far-reaching exercise in collaboration and diversity, with a heroic effort from composer Will Todd

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Orfeo review – descent to the underworld takes you to heaven

John Caird delivers a triumphant fusion of staging, choreography and performance – with Ed Lyon formidably assured in the title role

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