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A Face in the Crowd, review: Elvis Costello’s satirical musical isn’t extreme enough to skewer Trump

Costello and playwright Sarah Ruhl adapt the 1957 film about the rise of a populist demagogue in this new, uneven Young Vic production

The Independent UK

Nachtland review – a provocative plunge into art history

The discovery of what could be a painting by Hitler leads to a moral quagmire in Patrick Marber’s punchy staging of Marius von Mayenburg’s play

The Guardian - UK

The Turn of the Screw review – haunting, claustrophobic staging keeps the tension high

Isabelle Kettle’s new production of Britten’s chamber opera works well in the tiny Ustinov studio, blessed with a strong cast and many imaginative touches

The Guardian - UK

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Dreaming and Drowning review – a visceral but lyrical look at anxiety and acceptance

Kwame Owusu’s language dances on the tongue of athletic performer Tienne Simon in this monologue about a young, sci-fi-loving gay man’s struggles to fit in and find love

The Guardian - UK

Great Expectations review – Bengal in 1905 is tailor-made for Dickens

Tanika Gupta brings authority and nuance to her adaptation, exploring class, colonialism, partition and invasion – and finding unexpected resonance

The Guardian - UK

As You Like It review – gender-fluid version plays too freely with the text

Ellen McDougall’s inclusive production is wonderfully warm and flirty – especially in the scenes between Rosalind and Celia – but uneven and confusing as a whole

The Guardian - UK

The Empress review – resonant survival tales of Victorian Britain

Tanika Gupta’s historical drama has only got more relevant since 2013, but there’s an awful lot of migration stories to get through in three hours

The Guardian - UK

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As You Like It review – age-blind anti-production pulls the rug on Arden

A bewitching cast cleverly turns Shakespeare into improv comedy in a backstage ‘rehearsal’ of the play, in which age and memory are played for laughs

The Guardian - UK

Review: Faye Brookes and Kevin Clifton sparkle in Strictly Ballroom - but it's not a perfect 10

The star turns did sparkle, but a stoppage on stage and multiple cast changes hampered the flow on opening night for our reviewer

Manchester Evening News

Roman Holiday review – movie magic gets lost in translation

Despite charismatic performances and real chemistry, the classic Audrey Hepburn romcom falters in its transition into a Cole Porter jukebox musical

The Guardian - UK

The Circle review – love, tears and tender truths when Jane Asher comes to call

Strong emotions rule in a candid and well-judged Somerset Maugham comedy twisting romantic fates across generations of squabbling society

The Guardian - UK

Cymbeline review – Shakespeare’s knotty romance is a fabulous farewell for Doran

Departing artistic director Greg Doran reinvigorates this tale of a royal family in crisis with clarity and intelligence

The Guardian - UK

The week in theatre: One Woman Show; Hakawatis; Bugsy Malone

Liz Kingsman’s zinging take on Fleabag goes beyond parody. Elsewhere, a gutsy, all-female Arabian Nights, and splurge guns at dawn

The Guardian - UK

One Woman Show review – joke-packed Fleabag parody is perfectly pitched

Liz Kingsman’s slick, self-conscious ‘troubled woman’ show nests its complex jokes within jokes to tremendous effect

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Arms and the Man review – Shaw’s women show their steel

This 1894 farce set during the Serbo-Bulgarian war is impeccably played in a production showing the playwright’s radical vision still resonates

Evening Standard

Pinocchio at the Unicorn Theatre review: wonderfully imaginative and mercifully no donkeys

This carefully presented production teaches both parents and children the value of truth

The Guardian - UK

The week in theatre: The Seagull; The Southbury Child; Richard III

The action’s all in the detail in Jamie Lloyd’s spellbound Chekhov; Alex Jennings excels as a vicar refusing to find the common touch; and Richard III falls short of its health warning

The Guardian - UK

Richard III review – Shakespeare’s supervillain breezes through the bloodbath

Royal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonArthur Hughes is the scheming sociopath in a production of magisterial stagecraft that builds to a powerful climax

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The Independent UK

The Week on Stage: from Oklahoma! to The Misfortune of the English

The highs and lows of the week’s theatre

The Guardian - UK

The Misfortune of the English review – a stinging exploration of boyhood and patriotism

Based on real events, Pamela Carter’s drama follows British schoolchildren on a walking tour in prewar Nazi Germany

The Guardian - UK

Henry VI: Rebellion / Wars of the Roses review – thrilling games of thrones

With their portrait of a wobbling monarchy and egotistical leadership, these rare stagings are particularly topical

The Guardian - UK

The Taxidermist’s Daughter review – Kate Mosse’s gothic mystery stuffed with visual thrills

Mosse’s adaptation of her blood-soaked novel delivers on chills but could do with more substance amid the sound and fury

The Guardian - UK

The Fever Syndrome review – a family home, and its dramas and rivalries, dissected

There is some fine acting as the wife and children of Robert Lindsay’s patriarchal professor bicker and bond over inheritances and legacies, but it is all a little too civilised

Evening Standard

The Fever Syndrome review: Family drama about IVF pioneer is thematically overstuffed

Robert Lindsay gets to do lots of acting with a capital A in this finely-crafted but overwrought drama

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