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The week in theatre: Shifters; The Human Body; Nachtland – review

Benedict Lombe’s new play about two almost-lovers is alive and unpredictable; Keeley Hawes and Jack Davenport have a glimmering brief encounter; and a Hitler painting causes a family rift in Patrick Marber’s latest production

The Guardian - UK

Keeley Hawes returns to the stage in political drama at the Donmar Warehouse

The actress is returning to the stage after a decade away

Evening Standard

Next to Normal at the Donmar Warehouse review: Broadway musical about grief and depression treads a fine line

Caissie Levy, the original Elsa in Frozen on Broadway, is terrific

Evening Standard

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Tim Sheader named as the new boss of West End theatre the Donmar Warehouse

He comes straight from a long tenure at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre

Evening Standard

London’s Donmar Warehouse appoints Tim Sheader as artistic director

After more than a decade running Regent’s Park Open Air theatre, the hit-making director is to take over the Covent Garden venue next year

The Guardian - UK

David Tennant will play Macbeth in Donmar Warehouse production in December

Scots star David Tennant has previously performed lead roles in Hamlet, Richard II and Romeo And Juliet.

Daily Record

Private Lives review: Dark, uptight Coward revival isn’t as revelatory as it thinks

Rachael Stirling and Stephen Mangan play the sparring ex-lovers in a production that emphasises domestic violence

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Private Lives review – Coward’s comedy becomes a stark theatre of cruelty

Stephen Mangan and Rachael Stirling bare their teeth in a show that dials up the violence and sometimes struggles to navigate the humour

The Guardian - UK

Private Lives at the Donmar review: despite Mangan and Stirling this largely joyless revival fails to spark

This show was clearly planned as a crowd-pleaser, a reappraisal of a classic and a star vehicle, but it doesn’t fully satisfy on any of those counts

Evening Standard

‘Maybe you set the theatre on fire?’: directors on staging the unstageable

Scenes that skip between universes, 100 eyeballs emerging from the floorboards, whole plays set on a slope … The scripts for Constellations, Wonder Boy and other hits have provided instructions to unleash the imagination

The Guardian - UK

The best theatre to stream this month: Red Pitch, Constellations and more

Our roundup of plays to watch at home in May includes The Tempest with Jessie Buckley, Robert Icke’s The Doctor staged in Amsterdam and Amanda Wilkin’s superb solo show Shedding a Skin

The Guardian - UK

New season at London’s Donmar to include ‘shocking’ play on climate crisis

Dawn King’s dystopian courtroom drama The Trials, dubbed ‘12 Angry Young People’, is part of a programme that also includes European premieres of The Band’s Visit and A Doll’s House, Part 2

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