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The week in theatre: Top Girls; The Great British Bake Off Musical; Sleepova; Oklahoma! – review

A revival of Caryl Churchill’s female power play has yet to settle; Paul and Prue become song-and-dance naturals; a fab four get ready for bed; and who can say no to this Rodgers and Hammerstein reinvention

The Guardian - UK

Top Girls review – Caryl Churchill’s classic with a Toxteth twist

The drama of women trying to get ahead in Thatcher’s Britain is played with kitsch period detail that can distract from its still-relevant story

The Guardian - UK

The week in theatre: Women, Beware the Devil; Romeo and Julie; Shirley Valentine – review

Director Rupert Goold and co have a field day with Lulu Raczka’s elusive new Jacobean folk horror; star-crossed Cardiff teenagers snare hearts and minds; and Sheridan Smith makes Willy Russell’s midlife monologue her own

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Women, Beware the Devil review – bizarre comedy horror is like Bridgerton on acid

Lulu Raczka’s new play, directed by Rupert Goold, is beautifully designed but the plot – and the point – is puzzling. Maybe the joke’s on us?

The Guardian - UK

‘Is it antisemitic? Yes’: how Jewish actors and directors tackle The Merchant of Venice

Tracy-Ann Oberman’s Shylock, who has been relocated to 1930s Britain, is inspired by her tough great grandma – while Henry Goodman felt shame after losing himself in Shakespeare’s most notorious character

The Guardian - UK

Romeo and Julie review – a sweet spin on Shakespeare

Gary Owen’s tale of star-crossed, working-class lovers in modern Cardiff offers existential questions and awkward encounters

The Guardian - UK

When is London Theatre Week 2023? How to get tickets

What is it, when is it, how to get cheap theatre tickets, and what shows are on offer?

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Babygrows are such sweet sorrow: Romeo and Juliet get a gritty romcom reboot

Romeo, an out-of-work single dad, falls for Julie, a top student who dreams of being an astrophysicist. We go behind the scenes at a Shakespeare update that swaps fair Verona for Splott in Cardiff

The Guardian - UK

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

Evening Standard

A Streetcar Named Desire starring Paul Mescal announces West End transfer after actor’s Oscar nomination

‘It’s my favourite play and it’s wonderful to be able to share it with a wider audience,’ Mescal said

The Independent UK

The week in theatre: A Streetcar Named Desire; Watch on the Rhine

Rebecca Frecknall’s headlong take on Tennessee Williams captivates. And Lillian Hellman’s 1941 call to arms resonates anew

The Guardian - UK

A Streetcar Named Desire review – Paul Mescal brings a fierce and dangerous energy

One of the year’s most hyped shows delivers with powerful performances from the Normal People star, Patsy Ferran and Anjana Vasan

The Guardian - UK

A Streetcar Named Desire at the Almeida review: Paul Mescal is horribly good and Patsy Ferran is astonishing

With this revival Frecknall proves herself again to be a director of great vision and invention

Evening Standard

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

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The Guardian - UK

Theatre: Susannah Clapp’s 10 best shows of 2022

Thirties Harlem and the siege of Troy rocked, along with Joan of Arc, Orlando and the Ladies of Llangollen, to be greeted by funding cuts across the board

The Guardian - UK

Sons of the Prophet review – overstuffed drama by The Humans’ Stephen Karam

There’s some promising material in this tale of a struggling Lebanese American family – but too much story for the play to successfully contain

The Guardian - UK

The week in theatre: Orlando; Hex review – an elemental Emma Corrin, and a bit of a beast at the National

Corrin shape-shifts to perfection in Neil Bartlett’s zestful take on Virginia Woolf, while a bad fairy casts a spell on Rufus Norris

The Guardian - UK

Kerry Jackson review – Fay Ripley’s lively striver is riddled with working-class cliches

April De Angelis’s comedy about a leave-voting entrepreneur in a gentrified area has echoes of Abigail’s Party and Educating Rita – except all the characters are reduced to types

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Evening Standard

Kerry Jackson at the National Theatre review: Fay Ripley’s new show is a very odd but enjoyable romp

This theatrical sitcom is schematic but full of laughs with a cracking central performance by Fay Ripley

Evening Standard

Orlando at the Garrick Theatre review – Emma Corrin is captivating in this bold, tricksy experiment

Corrin anchors the show but it never feels like the emotional stakes are very high

The Guardian - UK

Orlando review – Emma Corrin is glorious in a giddy, heartfelt show

In Neil Bartlett’s adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s wild-goose chase through time, Corrin shines as the hero who falls asleep as a man and wakes as a woman

The Independent UK

Orlando review: Emma Corrin is magnificent as Woolf’s punk rock protagonist

Michael Grandage’s production has an inventiveness and creativity that’s true to the spirit of Virginia Woolf’s novel

Liverpool Echo

Youth theatre group gives teens a voice to explore their world

More than 800 young people have been involved with the group

The Guardian - UK

The Rock’n’Roll Panto Red Riding Hood review – music is the star in an Everyman institution

The eponymous fairytale does not lend itself easily to panto – requiring some princely interference – but the cast is exuberant

Liverpool Echo

Toxteth actor has lead in blockbusting rock ’n’ roll panto

Liverpool's Everyman Theatre kicked off their festive rock ‘n’ roll panto Red Riding Hood with plenty of plot twists with a brilliant performance by a great cast

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