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Hope Has a Happy Meal review – dystopian comedy balances wit and nightmares

Set in a future police state, Tom Fowler’s play sees two women go on the run in a feverish reimagining of Thelma and Louise

The Guardian - UK

‘I can’t breathe’: New York air quality forces Jodie Comer to end Broadway performance after 10 minutes

Air quality in New York City was ranked number one for the worst air quality in the world on Wednesday afternoon

The Independent UK

‘I can’t breathe’: Jodie Comer halts Broadway show due to New York air quality

Air quality in New York City was ranked number one for the worst air quality in the world on Wednesday afternoon

The Independent UK

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The Second Woman review – Ruth Wilson’s spellbinding theatrical marathon

Over 24 hours, the star offers variations on the same scene with 100 different partners, including some famous faces – and the result is astonishing

The Guardian - UK

The week in theatre: August in England; Blue Now; The Vortex – review

Lenny Henry draws his audience deep into the life – and its shattering – of a Windrush evictee; Derek Jarman’s final film is reverentially revisited; and Lia Williams and son ignite Noël Coward at his darkest

The Guardian - UK

The Vortex review – Noël Coward’s swirling jazz age psychodrama

Lia Williams and her son Joshua James make a scintillating double act in a resonant revival of the 1924 hit

The Guardian - UK

A Play for the Living in a Time of Extinction review – Lydia West takes command

The star narrates an innovative, pedal-powered production that muses on the climate crisis but the wide range of topics limits the storytelling

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‘Did I watch my ex on I’m a Celebrity? No – I was busy doing a five-star play’: Rebecca Humphries on love, heartbreak and Blackout Songs

Almost a year after publishing her self-worth memoir, ‘Why Did You Stay?’, the actor talks to Ellie Harrison about moving on, and her subversive stage romcom

The Independent UK

The week in theatre: Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead; Accidental Death of an Anarchist; Berlusconi – review

Complicité’s masterly take on Olga Tokarczuk’s eco-thriller is unforgettable; Daniel Rigby excels in Fo’s all too timely classic; and Silvio Berlusconi is in dire need of some good tunes

The Guardian - UK

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof review – Succession-style scheming in the deep south

Modern-day version casts Tennessee Williams’s steamy melodrama in a new light, with a focus on the corruptibility of wealth

The Guardian - UK

Enter stage right: the new wave of musicals taking on the West End adaptations

With everything from Bake Off to Pretty Woman putting bums on seats in Theatreland, launching an original homegrown production is harder than ever. But might salvation be at hand in the unlikely shape of Silvio Berlusconi?

The Guardian - UK

Oh Silvio! The making of the naughty, noisy and dark new musical about Berlusconi, coming to London

The controversial former Italian prime minister and self-styled ‘Jesus Christ of politics’ gets the musical treatment

Evening Standard

Wildfire Road review – comedy and terror on the path to climate hell

A strong cast and plenty of physicality bolster Eve Leigh’s hour-long, plane-set takedown of climate-crisis apathy

The Guardian - UK

Sleepova at the Bush Theatre review: you can’t help but fall in love with this joyous, exuberant show

A glorious young cast brings authentic energy to a coming of age tale of female friendship

Evening Standard

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Beginning review – touching after-party tale of the last two left standing

David Eldridge’s insightful play about a pair of singletons sizing each other up at the end of the night is relocated for a funny and moving revival

The Guardian - UK

Duet for One review – Kempinski’s combative probe into parental tensions

Tara Fitzgerald plays the former violinist in a restaging of Tom Kempinski’s play that pits patient against doctor in a furious battle of wills

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Floods, fire and ice - plucky women of Ice Fernz

The Ice Fernz have come from diverse walks of life - and through the floodwaters of Cyclone Gabrielle - to reach the ice hockey world champs in Cape Town, Suzanne McFadden discovers.

Evening Standard

Linck and Mülhahn at Hampstead Theatre review: gimmicky and self-conscious

The story and ideas should be compelling but the arch tone keeps the audience at arms length

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The Independent UK

The Week on Stage: From Titus Andronicus to 2:22 A Ghost Story

A guide to the week’s theatre

Daily Mirror

Taxpayers fork out millions on hotels for defence chiefs as troops live in squalor

Hundreds of senior officers and officials have enjoyed luxurious £500-a-night hotels in Hawaii, Dubai and the Caribbean while working for the government - all paid for by taxpayers

The Independent UK

2:22 A Ghost Story review: Cheryl the actor has arrived – and she’s frightfully good

The Geordie pop princess makes an impressive West End debut in Danny Robins’ spooky tale

The Guardian - UK

2:22: A Ghost Story review – Cheryl’s West End debut is a thunderous fright night

The singer is convincing in the role (first played by Lily Allen) of a mother who hears spooky noises at night in Danny Robins’ well-oiled, blackly comic chiller

The Independent UK

The Week on Stage: From Sound of the Underground to Alex Edelman’s Just For Us

A guide to the week’s theatre

The Guardian - UK

Sound of the Underground review – magnificent explosion of mesmerising drag

A plot to kill RuPaul for dragging drag into the mainstream, followed by song and dance numbers, fires up an exhilarating show with breathtaking costumes, radical politics and filthy humour

Chronicle Live

Cheryl in 2:22: A Ghost Story rehearsals with days to go until West End debut

Cheryl has joined the cast of hit London show 2:22: A Ghost Story in the role of Jenny

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