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Backstage chat: Andy Nyman on The Producers musical – 'Mel Brooks' kindness makes it okay'

Andy Nyman is currently having a blast as Max Bialystock in The Producers musical at the Garrick but admits, ‘We have to lock away the swastika flags at night’

Evening Standard

The Producers at the Garrick Theatre review: 'At 99, Mel Brooks has the funniest show in London'

5/5 Transferred to the Garrick, Mel Brooks’ classic comedy is not simply hilarious but is exactly what we all need right now

Evening Standard

TV tonight: a depressing look at how TikTok Shop is making us spend

Mariam Musa takes a deeper look at the social media platform. Plus: Joely Richardson guest-stars in Bookish. Here’s what to watch this evening

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Dealer’s Choice review – Hammed Animashaun is the ace in a busted flush

Patrick Marber’s debut play about a group of poker players brims with banter, but this pallid 30th-anniversary revival exposes its weaknesses

The Guardian - UK

Dealer’s Choice at the Donmar: savagely comic study of male compulsion

4/5 Alfie Allen and Brendan Coyle star in this banter-filled play about a high stakes card game

Evening Standard

Alfie Allen on Dealer’s Choice: ‘Maybe when it was written, men would just bury things and move on’

INTERVIEW: As he prepares to play a poker-loving ladies’ man in the Donmar’s revival of Patrick Marber’s Nineties classic ‘Dealer’s Choice’, Alfie Allen talks to Phil Harrison about male friendship, doing justice to his parts and shooting in the desert

The Independent UK

‘I said there was no reason to make it a musical!’ Mel Brooks on The Producers’ West End transfer

Veteran director, who originally opposed adapting 1967 film for the stage, is ‘very proud’ as Menier Chocolate Factory production will move to London’s Garrick theatre

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The Producers at Menier Chocolate Factory review: a superb revival of this buoyantly vulgar Broadway musical

4/5 Come for the great gags and music, stay for the hotpants and giant spangled Bratwurst

Evening Standard

The Producers review – daring delight is the sparkling standout of London’s festive theatre

Director Patrick Marber and a multitasking ensemble put on an irresistible revival of Mel Brooks’ musical satire

The Guardian - UK

What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank review – charged chat explores Jewish identity

Two couples have a sour reunion in Patrick Marber’s production of Nathan Englander’s play, updated from his 2011 short story to include events after 7 October

The Guardian - UK

Artistic freedom in our theatres is being lost to fear and self-censorship

The conflict in Gaza and a funding crisis are neutering the traditional home of nuanced debate about difficult issues

The Guardian - UK

The Critic review – deliciously waspish Ian McKellen lifts 30s London murder mystery

A fine cast is squandered in this sour adaptation, scripted by Patrick Marber, of Anthony Quinn’s lively novel

The Guardian - UK

The Critic review – Ian McKellen’s poison pen sharpens 30s society cosy-crime drama

As a jaundiced reviewer with a dangerous private life, McKellen brings glorious life to this story of sour toffs in a dishonest decade

The Guardian - UK

Kieran Culkin to lead Glengarry Glen Ross revival on Broadway

The Succession actor will be joined by Bob Odenkirk and Bill Burr for a new take on David Mamet’s Pulitzer prize-winning play

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O, Canada! The Bard is ribbed and revered at Ontario’s Stratford festival

The side-splitting Something Rotten! fondly mocks Shakespeare and musicals at the annual arts jamboree celebrated for both. It is a witty accompaniment to fresh takes on Romeo and Juliet, Twelfth Night and Cymbeline

The Guardian - UK

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

Nachtland review – a provocative plunge into art history

The discovery of what could be a painting by Hitler leads to a moral quagmire in Patrick Marber’s punchy staging of Marius von Mayenburg’s play

Evening Standard

Patrick Marber: 'We need more European theatre'

Playwright is directing Nachtland at the Young Vic, which was first performed in Germany

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The Guardian - UK

Pandemonium review – Armando Iannucci’s furiously funny takedown of No 10

Boris Johnson and his successors Less Trust and Riches Sooner are satirised in a superb political pantomime directed by Patrick Marber

The Guardian - US

The Critic review – a devious Ian McKellen anchors uneven thriller

A delicious performance as a catty gay theatre critic in 1930s London almost saves this Patrick Marber-scripted drama

The Guardian - UK

The week in audio: It’s Not You, It’s Them… But It Might Be You; Bunk Bed; Where Are You Going?; Gordon Smart – review

Instagram star and OK! agony aunt Lala is refreshingly frank about sex; Kathy Burke is a pillow-talk blast; a roving Catherine Carr has the human touch; and Smart’s new 5 Live show ticks all the right boxes

The Guardian - UK

Patrick Marber to direct Nachtland, a play about Hitler’s art and ‘rise of the new right’

Satire by German playwright Marius von Mayenburg will open next year at the Young Vic in London which will also revive Harold Pinter’s The Homecoming

The Guardian - UK

Closer review – Patrick Marber’s daring drama turns 25

This intimate story of four-way romantic damage gains an extra edge in Clare Lizzimore’s slick revival

Evening Standard

Closer at Lyric Hammersmith review: searingly good revival shows this is a modern classic

Twenty-five years on, the play looks startlingly prescient, addressing the violence that sometimes underpins male desire

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