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Word-Play review – amusing riffs on slippery language and politicians

Daring production ranges boldly from very funny Westminster satire to suffering families at the sharp end of Home Office policy

The Guardian - UK

Miss Saigon review – slick machine of a musical rather than a radical rewrite

Billed as an opportunity to reframe Boublil and Schönberg’s original, this is more of a tweak but it is a visually captivating production

The Guardian - UK

Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Aspects of Love to close in West End three months early

Show received a two-star review from The Independent

The Independent UK

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The Pillowman review – Lily Allen fails to deliver visceral punch

In this revival of Martin McDonagh’s play about child mutilation, tyranny and freedom of expression, the twists and turns between comic and macabre sadly do not come off

The Guardian - UK

42nd Street at Sadler’s Wells review: when its star is onstage this love letter to Broadway is pure pleasure

There’s something about the sheer, silly exhilaration of tap that’s downright irresistible

Evening Standard

Assassins review – Sondheim’s dark study of aspiring presidential killers

Polly Findlay’s production underlines the way these left-behinds and psychopaths invert the American dream

The Guardian - UK

Review: No Pay? No Way! at Royal Exchange Theatre - belly laughs in the dark and an important question

This brilliantly funny adaptation is skilfully realised, but the real issues are deadly serious, says Rob Williams.

Manchester Evening News

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Review: The King and I at the Palace Theatre

"The show, like the relationship between Anna and the King, grows on you slowly yet surely"

Manchester Evening News

BRB2 review – great start for Carlos Acosta’s young squad

Birmingham company’s offshoot ranges from classical showpieces to modern shorts, allowing its dancers to tackle roles usually kept for principals

The Guardian - UK

The Week on Stage: From Dancing at Lughnasa to Ain’t Too Proud

A guide to the week’s theatre

The Independent UK

The Lion King at Sunderland Empire is a feast for the senses as Disney magic rules over Wearside

Hit Disney musical The Lion King has begun its seven week run at the Sunderland Empire in sensational style

Chronicle Live

Black Superhero review – original queer drama with plenty of kapow

Part satire, part serious drama, Danny Lee Wynter’s story of gay love and acting slowly reveals its emotional powers

The Guardian - UK

"A world with only 140 words a day... and Aidan Turner and Jenna Coleman" Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons review

"That two of our best-loved actors can create such unlikeable characters on stage is testament to their extraordinary talent"

Manchester Evening News

I went to see ABBA Voyage and it was jaw-dropping

A once-in-a-lifetime experience from Eurovision's greatest ever export

Liverpool Echo

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The Guardian - UK

Greek tragedies like Medea are an ethical nightmare. That’s why we need them

Ancient classics can reinforce patriarchal lies about women, but they also take us back to the origins of pernicious narratives, says Charlotte Higgins, the Guardian’s chief culture writer

Manchester Evening News

Peaky Blinders is back in Manchester - this time with dance shoes

"This is dance for people who don't usually watch dance"

Evening Standard

Our pick of playwright James Graham’s ten best works, as new National Theatre Gareth Southgate play announced

There are few playwrights doing it better than Graham

The Guardian - AU

‘Theatre and pop at its absolute excess’: William Shakespeare meets Britney Spears as & Juliet comes to Australia

The feelgood, feminist retelling of Romeo & Juliet, with songs from Spears, Katy Perry and Bon Jovi, is coming to Melbourne, confetti cannons and all

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The Guardian - UK

The week in theatre: Phaedra; Sylvia; Standing at the Sky’s Edge – review

Lyttelton; Old Vic; Olivier, LondonJanet McTeer is mighty in Simon Stone’s electric remaking of myth; dance, not speech, powers Kate Prince’s suffragette musical; and Richard Hawley’s paean to Sheffield finds a home from home

The Guardian - UK

Medea review – Sophie Okonedo is magnificent as ancient Greece’s preeminent rebel woman

Medea is as much victim as villain in Dominic Cooke’s psychologically subtle and subversive production, and Ben Daniels is superb playing all the puffed up men in her life

The Guardian - UK

Phaedra review – Simon Stone’s reimagining flitters from tragedy to comedy

Janet McTeer plays a politician who falls for her dead lover’s son, but even her strong performance cannot save a tonally unsure play

Evening Standard

Our pick of the 50 best plays of the 21st century

The last two decades have been full of extraordinary theatre – it’s a thrilling indication of what’s ahead of us when doors reopen

The Independent UK

Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons review: Aidan Turner and Jenna Coleman squeeze out the juice

It’s nice that Sam Steiner’s 2015 Fringe gem has been plucked out for the West End but it doesn’t seem the best way to serve a bright new writing talent

The Guardian - UK

Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons review – Aidan Turner and Jenna Coleman star in sharp drama

Josie Rourke’s West End revival of Sam Steiner’s fringe hit really lifts when the show’s starry duo drop their romcom routine

Evening Standard

Lemons... at the Harold Pinter Theatre review: Aidan Turner and Jenna Coleman make this a bittersweet pleasure

Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons is a sad love story subtly enacted by the two luminous screen stars

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