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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

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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

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

The Guardian - UK

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.

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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

Evening Standard

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

A guide to the week’s theatre

The Independent UK

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

Daily Mirror

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 Independent 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 Guardian - 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 Independent 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

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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

Daily Mirror

Cheryl looks worlds away from popstar heyday as she prepares for theatre debut

Cheryl Tweedy looks dramatically different in fresh-faced snaps as the singer prepares to make her West End debut later this month as Jenny in the production 2:22

The Independent UK

Jodie Comer, a gen-Z Elle Woods and a giant swimming pool: The best theatre of 2022, ranked

The Independent’s theatre critics have chosen their top stage shows of 2022, a year in which fresh new writing and charming musicals reigned supreme

The Guardian - UK

The week in theatre: As You Like It; Mandela; Kerry Jackson – review

Rose Ayling-Ellis stars in a fresh As You Like It; a Mandela musical can’t do the great man justice; and April De Angelis slips into two dimensions

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The Guardian - UK

Alice in Wonderland review – Carroll’s classic goes down the Victoria line

Poltergeist theatre company send Alice into the underground in this offbeat adaptation with tube-inspired nonsense language

The Guardian - UK

Mandela review – a Madiba musical with fridge-magnet philosophy

A strong cast cannot conceal the thinness of this superficial account of South Africa’s great liberator

Evening Standard

Michael Luwoye on playing Mandela at the Young Vic, his hit turn in Hamilton and what it means to be free

The actor knew the iconic ideal of the great South African leader, but is excited to show his more human side on stage

The Guardian - UK

Baghdaddy review – arresting and absurd take on war’s trauma

A British Iraqi and her father re-enact his wartime memories under the direction of three ghoulish clowns in a daring if uneven debut

Manchester Evening News

Man, 24, told he had six months to live after going to doctors with double vision

Doctors discovered a 'brain tumour the size of a tennis ball' after Ashley Terry went to A&E

Wales Online

'I went to A&E expecting a prescription but they told me I had a brain tumour the size of a tennis ball'

Doctors told Ashley Terry he'd only have six months to live without treatment

The Guardian - UK

Accidental Death of an Anarchist review – a riotous satirical farce brought bang up to date

Tom Basden’s new adaptation of the Italian classic brings in dodgy selfies, WhatsApp groups and the lord chief justice in a furious but funny broadside against police malpractice

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