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One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest review – Aaron Pierre makes a mesmerising McMurphy

Director Clint Dyer brings a fresh political focus to Ken Kesey’s story of disempowerment but the relentless misogyny of the text feels retrograde

The Guardian - UK

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest review: Aaron Pierre is electric in problematic story

3/5 Clint Dyer’s production at the Old Vic is big on intensity and performances but can’t shake some dated aspects of the classic story

Evening Standard

Oh, Mary! at the Trafalgar Theatre review: a boozy glitter bomb of outrageousness

4/5 This show can’t see a top without going over it

Evening Standard

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Oh, Mary! review – US history lewdly revised as American Pie-grade comedy

Arriving from Broadway with much fanfare, Cole Escola’s play about Mary Todd Lincoln is loaded with obvious jokes and squanders the talents of its cast

The Guardian - UK

Eddie Marsan says people like Laurence Fox fear ‘level playing field’ in acting

The British actor made the comments after being named vice president of Mountview drama school

The Independent UK

Actor Eddie Marsan named as one of leading UK drama school’s vice presidents

Dame Judi has been president of Mountview since 2006 and this year it is celebrating its 80th anniversary.

Evening Standard

Hamlet review – Giles Terera dives deep into the prince of Denmark’s torment

Justin Audibert’s lucid production is classically considered, with a fine cast making full unsettling use of the intimate space

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Oti Mabuse ‘delighted’ as she receives Freedom of the City of London

She is recognised for achievements in contemporary dance and charitable work.

Evening Standard

Sir Lenny Henry receives Freedom of the City of London

The comedian and actor joins previous recipients including Dame Judi Dench and Damian Lewis.

Evening Standard

Chichester Festival theatre announces first Hamlet, starring Giles Terera

Justin Audibert’s production with the Hamilton star is part of season including Top Hat, Natalie Dormer’s Anna Karenina and new play Safe Space

The Guardian - UK

Dr Strangelove review – Steve Coogan scores a quadruple cold war coup

Adding a fourth role to Peter Sellers’ three turns in the classic film, the comic excels in a fun yet unadventurous adaptation

The Guardian - UK

Passing Strange review – an all-out wild ride of a rock musical

Giles Terera is sublime as the guitar-wielding musician looking back on his tearaway years in this rowdy production

The Guardian - UK

Passing Strange at the Young Vic review: a rock-gig musical with undeniable verve and brio

This fondly ironic coming-of-age story has style and swagger, but lacks a bit in the substance department

Evening Standard

Power of Sail at the Menier Chocolate Factory review: an enjoyable and provoking cancel culture thriller

This talky and twisty show is brisk and punchy but tries to cram too much into the 100-minute running time

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The week in theatre: Clyde’s; The Confessions; The Score – review

Lynn Nottage wires us into American life with her all-consuming truck-stop cafe drama; Alexander Zeldin weaves slow magic from his mother’s memories; and Brian Cox makes a formidable JS Bach

Evening Standard

Clyde's at the Donmar Warehouse review: a glorious kitchen drama that's like The Bear... but better

Double Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lynn Nottage's new work about ex-cons trying to create the perfect sandwich is uproarious fun with a serious undertow

Evening Standard

Death of England: Closing Time’s Clint Dyer and Roy Williams – ‘We stay current because we look forward’

The final show in the Death of England series, which explores race and class in contemporary Britain, opens at the National Theatre later this month

The Guardian - UK

‘We messed with some heads’: Roy Williams on tackling a torn nation in Death of England

As his series co-created with Clint Dyer continues at the National Theatre, the playwright revisits how a Guardian microplay about sport led to a panorama of Britain in tumult

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The Lehman Trilogy’s Michael Balogun on his extraordinary journey from prison to starring in the West End

Following an ‘epiphany’ while serving a prison sentence, Balogun decided to pursue a career in acting - and became a star. Now he is about to open in an acclaimed play in the West End

The Guardian - UK

The week in theatre: Othello; Baghdaddy – review

Opposite Giles Terera’s dynamic yet vulnerable Othello, Rosy McEwen’s forthright Desdemona is a revelation

The Independent UK

The Week on Stage: From Othello to Vardy v Rooney

A guide to the week’s theatre

Evening Standard

Othello at the National Theatre review - Giles Terera shines in this powerful, brutal staging

Almost everything in Clint Dyer’s production is harsh and stark

The Guardian - UK

The week in theatre: Blues for an Alabama Sky; The Crucible; Dido’s Bar – review

Thirties Harlem is vibrantly alive at the National, while mob rule meets Little House on the Prairie in an assured revival of The Crucible. Elsewhere, a night on the tiles in Carthage

The Guardian - UK

Blues for an Alabama Sky review – Harlem renaissance drama is a tale for our times

A group of friends in 1930s New York pursue diverging dreams in a transfixing production of Pearl Cleage’s play directed by Lynette Linton

Evening Standard

Blues for an Alabama Sky at the National Theatre review: deliciously funny and deeply affecting

Lynette Linton’s beautiful, light-footed production is a bittersweet delight

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