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The week in theatre: Machinal; Blue Beard; The Cord – review

Richard Jones’s supercharged staging of Sophie Treadwell’s 1920s masterpiece hits like a fist; Emma Rice subverts a dark fairytale with circus gaiety; and a young couple unravel beautifully in Bijan Sheibani’s latest

The Guardian - UK

A Midsummer Night’s Dream review – characters mash, worlds invert and flames burst from fingers

Eleanor Rhode’s ravishing fusion of flamboyancy, surrealism and raucous fun rouses audiences in a youthful, energetic riot

The Guardian - UK

Critically acclaimed Machinal to transfer to the Old Vic with 'gobsmacking' lead Rosie Sheehy

Sophie Treadwell's 1928 play comes to London after a sell-out run at Theatre Royal Bath

Evening Standard

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Machinal review – spare yet shocking revival of 1920s play on female criminality

An excellent cast give the story of Ruth Snyder, a woman executed by electric chair in 1928 for killing her husband, a cleverly inventive, chillingly modern update

The Guardian - UK

The best theatre to stream this month: Doctor Who does Shakespeare, and a visit to the nit nurse

Ncuti Gatwa stars in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Zadie Smith relocates Chaucer to Kilburn, plus dance, storytelling and fringe drama

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

The Guardian - UK

Romeo and Julie at the National Theatre review: an enthralling love story that asks big questions

It’s a Sin’s Callum Scott Howells is intensely watchable in a performance that gives off a low-key Paul Mescal vibe

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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

Richard III: The RSC creates history with groundbreaking production

Arthur Hughes becomes the first disabled actor ever to perform the lead role as the wicked royal 'crookback' at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre

Daily Mirror

All's Well That Ends Well: Shakespeare for the Instagram generation

The Bard's dark 'problem play' is turbo-charged in a thrilling new production that takes it hurtling into the 21st century to give it new relevance

Daily Mirror

All’s Well That Ends Well review – problem play gets a tasty Gen Z makeover

Rosie Sheehy dazzles as a woman calling the shots in this feverish production that underlines the play’s curious ambiguities

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