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Indhu Rubasingham’s National Theatre in-tray: lure megastars, deal with crises and define an era

The incoming artistic director at the NT must lead the institution and the industry, while choosing plays new and old for three stages. The job is a test of nerve and integrity

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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

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The House of Bernarda Alba review – Harriet Walter rules as Lorca gets a refurb

Adapted by Alice Birch and directed by Rebecca Frecknall, this is a stylised study in control and daughterly disobedience

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The week in theatre: The Witches; Ghosts; Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York) – review

The youngsters steal the show in the National’s terrifying gothic Disney Roald Dahl; a fine cast are stranded in Ibsen by candlelight; and a bittersweet fairytale in New York hits the spot

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Ghosts review – Ibsen’s intense tragedy by candlelight

Joe Hill-Gibbins directs his own version of the psychodrama, creating a potent atmosphere with designer Rosanna Vize

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She Stoops to Conquer review – a jolly good Christmas comedy

There are perfectly pitched performances with just the right touch of pathos as Oliver Goldsmith’s play gets a festive staging

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The Witches review – frights played for fun in rollicking musical

Roald Dahl’s villains are given a makeover with a gag-filled script by Lucy Kirkwood and a couple of storming numbers

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Patsy Ferran and Anjana Vasan: the Evening Standard Theatre Awards Best Actresses on their winning sister act

The pair were gobsmacked when they were both named as joint winners

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Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York) review – charming romcom is a treat

Two-hander musical matches its wide-eyed hero and sardonic heroine with just the right mix of sugar and sour

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I Should Be So Lucky, The Musical review – missing the Hit Factory

Show built around Stock Aitken Waterman’s songs flies so long as the pop classics are playing

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To Have and to Hold review – fond family comedy from the writer of One Man, Two Guvnors

Richard Bean’s new play touches on ageing and alienation, care and family love, but focuses on making us laugh

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The week in theatre: Choir Boy; Portia Coughlan; The Flea – review

Moonlight writer Tarell Alvin McCraney’s elite school drama hits all the right notes; Marina Carr’s intense Irish play finds its ideal director. Plus, notes on an 1889 scandal…

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Meetings review – cooking with postcolonialism in Mustapha Matura’s sparky drama

In a chic kitchen a Trinidadian couple discuss their high-end lives, but their cook, whose recipes the audience can scent, draws them back to deeper roots

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The week in theatre: Death of England: Closing Time; Sunset Boulevard – review

The fourth in Clint Dyer and Roy Williams’s state-of-the-nation play series is precise, fierce and moving, while Nicole Scherzinger hammers home the drama as Norma Desmond

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Sunset Boulevard review – Nicole Scherzinger dazzles in Jamie Lloyd’s radical rework

Lloyd brings hipster edginess, style and unpredictability to this revival of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical – though it’s more surface-level than penetrating closeup

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The week in theatre: Boys from the Blackstuff; Vanya; Mlima’s Tale – review

Alan Bleasdale’s 80s TV classic about jobless workers hits home in James Graham’s adaptation; Andrew Scott is not alone in his one-man Chekhov; and Lynn Nottage adds imagination to a tale of ivory smuggling

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Vanya review – Andrew Scott excels in one-man Chekhov

The actor gives thrillingly virtuoso performances as multiple characters in an entertaining reimagining but he cannot penetrate any one part deeply enough for tragedy to be felt

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Mlima’s Tale review – haunted by the elephant who would not forget

Ira Mandela Siobhan plays a pachyderm in Lynn Nottage’s indictment of the ivory trade, leaving traces on those who murdered him and sold his tusks

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The Real & Imagined History of the Elephant Man review – vigorous call for inclusivity

With excellent performances, Tom Wright’s play about the man who became a Victorian freakshow attraction is an at times uneasy mix of circus and polemic

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Macbeth review – a strenuously fresh reading with one-liners by Stewart Lee

Benefitting from a Scottish cast and a rewritten Porter’s speech by Lee, Wils Wilson’s production gets at the demonic drive of people desperate for power but hopeless in office

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The week in theatre: A Mirror; Next to Normal – review

Sam Holcroft’s unsettling new play about censorship features a menacing performance from Jonny Lee Miller, while a musical drama exploring bipolar disorder is edgily transfixing

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A Mirror review – Pirandellian wedding drama throws a bouquet of unrealities

Sam Holcroft’s drama delights in the theatrical trickery of dual identities and false realities to throw a final surprise punch

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Next to Normal review – fizzing musical about mental illness

The performances are superb in this tale of a family dealing with bipolar disorder but the storyline is thin

Evening Standard

London Theatre Week 2023 is extended: our pick of the top 10 shows to book from A Strange Loop to The Effect

With cheap tickets on offer these are our recommendations of shows to check out

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Playwright Sam Holcroft: ‘It felt like everyone else got a rulebook that I didn’t’

Her latest play, A Mirror, mixes her keen eye for human behaviour and her experiences in North Korea, but there’s another influence that the writer has never spoken about – her autism diagnosis

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