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The Playboy of the Western World: A strong turn from Nicola Coughlan

3/5 The Bridgerton star plays a feisty barmaid in this revival of JM Synge’s 1907 comedy that once caused riots

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Diana Vickers on witches, toxic exes and why 'women finally have a voice'

Diana Vickers is coming into her own in a new era where she can be everything - actor, singer, writer - all tied together with her ‘funny bones’

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The Standard Theatre Awards Shortlist 2025 revealed

Cate Blanchett, Tom Hiddleston and Rachel Zegler are shortlisted as the Standard’s historic celebration of the stage returns

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End at National Theatre: 'Performed with great subtlety by Clive Owen and Saskia Reeves'

4/5 Clive Owen and Saskia Reeves reunite to complete David Eldridge’s trilogy about couples

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Coven at Kiln Theatre review: 'Witchcraft musical needs work'

2/5 The songs work in this musical about witch trials in the 1600s but not a great deal else

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The Maids at Donmar Warehouse: 'If you're prepared to surrender, it's a wild ride'

4/5 This adaptation of Jean Genet’s play by Kip Williams makes use of phones to project the fantasy world of two sisters wishing to murder a terrible mistress but the true power is in the performances

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Clarkston at Trafalgar Theatre review: 'Joe Locke is fine but this is pure American cheese'

2/5 The Heartstopper star will bring the crowds but the play is too generic and static to go anywhere

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Bacchae at the National Theatre: 'Anarchic activism set to rap and dance'

3/5 The first play under new National Theatre Director Indhu Rubasingham is production of wild mood swings that ticks off issues but loses the plot

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Nima Taleghani on Bacchae: 'You’re invited for a good time, not for homework'

Nima Taleghani is becoming the first debutant playwright to have a play on at the National Theatre’s Olivier stage... and he’s not freaking out at all

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Emma at the Rose Theatre: Jane Austen will be laughing in her grave

3/5 Ava Pickett’s new adaptation is not for purists, but it is very funny

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Romans, a novel at Almeida Theatre: 'hugely ambitious portrait of masculinity'

4/5 An epic tale of three brothers in Alice Birch’s critique of manhood

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Dracula at the Lyric Hammersmith review: Umi Myers is magnetic in this clever feminist take on the classic

4/5 There are plenty of scary moments in this reworking that asks whether vampires or the patriarchy are the real monsters

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Dracula rises again: Umi Myers on a new show with its teeth on the pulse

A new production of Dracula at the Lyric Hammersmith tells the classic horror through a female perspective and aims to cleverly explore contemporary fears while scaring the old school pants off you

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The Merry Wives of Windsor at Shakespeare’s Globe: rare London revival is a treat

4/5 Led by George Fouracres at Falstaff this is full of zest

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Ignore the haters, Rachel Zegler is an absolute smash in Jamie Lloyd's Evita at London Palladium

5/5 The balcony scene is a bravura piece of social commentary from Jamie Lloyd, while Fabian Aloise’s muscular choreography is charged with sexual allure

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Stereophonic at Duke of York’s: 'a fine-grained, audacious work'

4/5 The Broadway hit about a Seventies band trying to record their new album, hits the West End in (flared) style

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Fiddler on the Roof at the Barbican: 'This is a must-see'

5/5 The Broadway classic revival transfers from Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre to the Barbican, and manages to retain all of its magic

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‘Fiddler on the Roof is in my DNA’: how the West End revival dances on the edge of tradition

INTERVIEW: After winning five-star reviews and 13 Olivier nominations, Jordan Fein’s earthy take on the 1964 musical is transferring to the Barbican ahead of a UK tour. Alice Saville speaks with the director and the cast about transplanting their Jewish shtetl

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The Crucible at Shakespeare’s Globe: 'classic study of hysteria and herd behaviour'

3/5 The Globe take on Arthur Miller’s endlessly relevant play with broad strokes

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Here We Are at the National Theatre, Lyttelton review: should this have been staged at all?

2/5 Stephen Sondheim’s posthumous musical has no songs, only a stellar cast save it from being completely unenjoyable

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Shanghai Dolls at the Kiln Theatre review: undeniably impressive

3/5 Two women across six decades of upheaval are covered in this astonishing true story of Mao Zedong’s revolution

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Gareth Southgate's kind revolution has a bittersweet ending in Dear England at the National

4/5 This is a team effort, which captures the communal joy and heartache of sport, and now boasts a proper ending

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'My teeth pinged out': Gwilym Lee on playing Gareth Southgate in Dear England

Bohemian Rhapsody and SAS Rogue Heroes star Gwilym Lee talks to us about becoming Gareth Southgate as Dear England hits the National Theatre

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The Seagull at the Barbican review: is Cate Blanchett's performance the year's best?

5/5 Blanchett delivers an highly skillful performance in director Thomas Ostermeier’s meta production of the Chekhov class

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Killed with one blow: the true story behind Punch at the Young Vic

James Graham’s Punch has arrived at the Young Vic having already made waves for its depiction of young male violence and restorative justice

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