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Hello, Dolly! at the London Palladium review: Imelda Staunton sparkles in this effervescent revival

A production that floods the senses with brightness and fun

Evening Standard

Hello, Dolly! review: Good old-fashioned razzmatazz gleams brighter than ever

Imelda Staunton brings heart and substance to this lavish feast, as Dominic Cooke’s revival of the 1964 show lights up the London Palladium

The Independent UK

‘Am I playing Dolly Parton? I’m flattered!’ Imelda Staunton launches Hello, Dolly! in London

Staunton reunites with Follies director Dominic Cooke to bring ‘old musical to a new audience’ at the Palladium in July

The Guardian - UK

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Sophie Okonedo: ‘I’m a really emotional person – I sometimes feel like all my skin is off’

The award-winning actor on taking on the challenge of Medea, her love of cycling, and playing the long game in TV’s Slow Horses

The Guardian - UK

Greek tragedies like Medea are an ethical nightmare. That’s why we need them

Ancient classics can reinforce patriarchal lies about women, but they also take us back to the origins of pernicious narratives, says Charlotte Higgins, the Guardian’s chief culture writer

The Guardian - UK

The week in theatre: Grenfell: System Failure; Medea; Trouble in Butetown – review

Playground; @sohoplace; Donmar Warehouse, LondonRichard Norton-Taylor and Nicolas Kent’s second Grenfell drama is a shocking dissection of negligence; Sophie Okonedo breathes fire as Medea; and Diana Nneka Atuona brings wartime Cardiff to life

The Guardian - UK

Medea at @sohoplace review: a blazing Sophie Okonedo makes this spartan production a must-see

Dominic Cooke’s staging of the Greek tragedy is gripping

Evening Standard

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Medea review – Sophie Okonedo is magnificent as ancient Greece’s preeminent rebel woman

Medea is as much victim as villain in Dominic Cooke’s psychologically subtle and subversive production, and Ben Daniels is superb playing all the puffed up men in her life

The Guardian - UK

Cancellation of award for playwright Caryl Churchill condemned

Leading figures in British theatre and film criticise decision not to give Churchill award because of her support for Palestinian rights

The Guardian - UK

Sophie Okonedo to play Medea at new West End theatre

The production, beginning next February, will be directed by Dominic Cooke for @sohoplace in London

The Guardian - UK

The week in theatre: Good; The Band’s Visit; The Boy With Two Hearts – review

As a mild-mannered German academic who drifts into becoming an SS officer, David Tennant is transfixing

The Guardian - UK

Good at the Harold Pinter Theatre review: David Tennant is chillingly plausible

This stark play is an important rather than an enjoyable watch

Evening Standard

Jews. In Their Own Words review – appalling revelations in a gallop through centuries of bigotry

Jonathan Freedland has turned 180,000 words drawn from interviews into a potent verbatim play about antisemitism and the blindspots of liberal institutions. The results feel urgent – but is its remit simply too large?

The Guardian - UK

Antisemitism claims at the Royal Court theatre

Letters: Caryl Churchill and Dominic Cooke defend the play Seven Jewish Children, and John Pelling recalls plays by Arnold Wesker and Bernard Kops

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The week in theatre: Jerusalem; The Corn Is Green; Marys Seacole

Spellbinding Mark Rylance returns as the anarchic Johnny ‘Rooster’ Byron; Nicola Walker hits the mark in Dominic Cooke’s brilliant Emlyn Williams revival; and in praise of Mary Seacole

Evening Standard

The Corn Is Green review: Dominic Cooke rejuvenates a dusty text

Nicola Walker is captivating in this play about the power of education and language

The Guardian - UK

The Corn Is Green review – an inspirational heart-warmer in praise of good education

Emlyn Williams’ 1938 play is a kind of Billy Elliot of the Valleys: the old-fashioned but hugely entertaining and affecting story of a Welsh miner’s son who escapes his class-bound home town with the help of a bold schoolteacher

The Guardian - UK

Nicola Walker, star of Unforgotten and The Split, returns to the theatre

The actor only really hit her stride at 40, but has always kept her feet firmly on the ground

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