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Bird Grove at Hampstead Theatre review: Elizabeth Dulau is the only saving grace here

2/5 The Andor actress shines in this ponderous play about a young George Eliot

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Cable Street: Sharp musical about the East End taking on Oswald Mosley’s fascists

3/5 This second run at Southwerk Playhouse sees Adam Lenon’s social history musical hit its stride

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Woolf Works at Royal Ballet: Wayne McGregor chases brainbox ideas with electric sensation

4/5 Wayne McGregor’s response to the work of Virginia Woolf returns to Royal Ballet and continues to wield emotive power

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High Noon theatre review: Billy Crudup brings charisma to bonkers real-time Western

3/5 This adaptation of the classic Gary Cooper Western takes big risks but has propulsive storytelling

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When We Are Married at Donmar Warehouse: This zesty revival is a joyful rediscovery

4/5 The pleasure is in the cast’s performance with Tim Sheader’s version of JB Priestley’s 1938 quietly radical comedy

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Indian Ink review: Felicity Kendal adds poignancy to Tom Stoppard play

3/5 In the wake of Tom Stoppard’s death this lush adaptation of one of his lesser works is given new charge

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Paranormal Activity at the Ambassadors Theatre: The scariest show on the West End?

4/5 Punchdrunk director Felix Barrett conjures frights aplenty with this stage adaptation of the supernatural film franchise

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Top Hat at Queen Elizabeth Hall review: the gossamer charm wears thin quickly

3/5 This celebration of a gilded interwar age is sluggish where it should sparkle, the pace slow

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Into the Woods review: A triumphant musical mash-up of fairytales

4/5 This revival of Stephen Sondheim’s clever musical is packed with terrific performances as classic fairytale characters lose their way in the darkness

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The Red Shoes review: Matthew Bourne is in his storytelling pomp

4/5 This adaptation of Powell and Pressburger’s famous classic is a tragedy told with shattering brilliance

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Spies, lies and men in ties: Agnes O'Casey reports from le Carré world

Ridley Road and Black Doves star Agnes O’Casey on hitting the West End (and almost some audience members) in the sensational adaptation of The Spy Who Came In From The Cold

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Pinocchio at Shakespeare's Globe: 'Chaos addict puppet will delight children'

4/5 Pinocchio is a whirlwind of chaos in this entertaining new musical which refuses to preach

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Paddington The Musical: 'One of the most wonderful theatrical creations in years'

5/5 What could so easily have been a commercial cash-in is a triumph of warmth and fun and theatricality, with a wonderful creation at the heart of it

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The Spy Who Came In From the Cold review: 'Propulsive, back-to-basics

4/5 John Le Carré’s classic Cold War novel is brought to the stage in thrillingly classic fashion

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The Hunger Games: On Stage review: a curiously uninvolving exercise in visual dazzle

3/5 Mia Carragher is excellent as Katniss, but sometimes this production feels closer to a circus than a play

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What to book now for a very cultural Christmas: from pantos to Paranormal Activity

Candlelit concerts, raucous pantos and heartwarming theatre: there’s a lot to do in the capital

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Audience reduced to tears by Paddington Bear reveal for new West End musical

The stage design of the beloved illegal immigrant bear has been a tightly guarded secret for years

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Line of Beauty at Almeida Theatre: 'Hugely entertaining skim across shiny 80s Britain'

4/5 This adaptation of Alan Hollinghurst’s novel looks at Thatcherism, the AIDS crisis and class in 80s Britain in satirical fashion

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Good Night, Oscar at the Barbican: 'Sean Hayes gives an astonishing performance'

4/5 Will and Grace’s Sean Hayes stars as trouble pianist Oscar Levant in a fast-paced, zinger-packed play which has an unforgettable climax

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First look at Ncuti Gatwa and Edward Bluemel in 'ferociously sexy' new play Born With Teeth

Liz Duffy Adams’ play imagines the relationship between Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare

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101 Dalmatians The Musical at Eventim Apollo review: this show is a dogs dinner

2/5 The puppy puppets have been simplified and a twee mawkishness introduced in this disastrous transfer to a different theatre

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The Great Gatsby party is still raging on the West End

Corbin Bleu and Jamie Muscato on the ever-evolving, always-mysterious, entirely spectacular Gatsby production which marks 100 years of the novel

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Nye at the National Theatre: 'Michael Sheen shines'

3/5 Michael Sheen plays the founder of the NHS in this fine, if patchy, crowd-pleaser

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Hercules at Theatre Royal Drury Lane: 'chugs along agreeably enough'

3/5 This adaptation of the Disney film is slick with some fun songs but somewhat lacking in strength

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Mrs Warren’s Profession review: 'why does it feel so mechanical?'

2/5 Imelda Staunton stars opposite her real life daughter Bessie Carter in a George Bernard Shaw production that tends to drag even with huge cuts

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