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Samson et Dalila review – Saint-Saëns’ opera has style and a new star in SeokJong Baek

Richard Jones’ vibrant new production can’t compensate for the work’s dramatic weaknesses, but soloists and chorus alike are on top form, and conductor Antonio Pappano relishes the score’s melodiousness

The Guardian - UK

‘Shake it and see what happens’: the confounding world of James Thierrée

The circus star turns singer in his new show, Room, which is designed to embrace chaos. He talks about the mystery of theatre and his movie missions

The Guardian - UK

Former Corrie star Faye Brookes dazzles in va-va-voom Chicago at Opera House

"You get vice, vanity and venality, all delivered with a vast vat of va-va-voom and death defying splits"

Manchester Evening News

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Everyday review – witchy rituals and a search for safety

Deafinitely Theatre’s evocative and tender show was inspired by real stories of abuse against deaf women and non-binary people

The Guardian - UK

The Wreckers review – Glyndebourne bring Smyth’s rarity to vivid and passionate life

Director Melly Still and conductor Robin Ticciati have done Ethel Smyth’s 1906 opera proud, with dynamic and intense performances from an excellent cast and chorus.

The Guardian - UK

Bliss review – relentlessly grim drama haunted by the ghosts of war

Hunger and disease stalk Russia in the aftermath of conflict in this play based on a story by Andrey Platonov

The Guardian - UK

Chicago Leeds Grand Theatre review: Corrie star Faye Brookes sizzles in slick sexy show

The former Kate Connor actress leads a flawless cast including Russell Watson, Three Degrees star Sheila Ferguson and mesmerising Djalenga Scott as Velma Kelly in the Chicago UK tour

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Claude Vivier weekend review – unruly and utterly distinctive

A rare immersion in the late Canadian composer – notorious for the manner of his death – reveals patchy beginnings evolving into mature harmonic soundscapes unlike anything else

The Guardian - UK

Theatre criticism is a quick and dirty act – our views change and so do plays

A two-star show has the potential to be turned into a five-star hit – as I learned on a recent trip to the Royal Court

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Cinderella stars fume after learning online that West End play gets the axe

Andrew Lloyd Webber’s theatre group has faced criticism after current and future cast members suggested they only learnt the news when was made public

Daily Mirror

Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cinderella reopened the West End in style – its closure is no way to ‘build back better’

The composer’s glorious new musical deserves fuller audiences – and its talented workforce deserved to be given better warning about its future

The Guardian - UK

Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Cinderella to close in the West End

Shock news that show will end in June at London’s Gillian Lynne theatre brings heartache for company and those who had been due to join cast

The Guardian - UK

The best theatre to stream this month: Red Pitch, Constellations and more

Our roundup of plays to watch at home in May includes The Tempest with Jessie Buckley, Robert Icke’s The Doctor staged in Amsterdam and Amanda Wilkin’s superb solo show Shedding a Skin

The Guardian - UK

Review: Chicago dazzles and seduces Bristol Hippodrome audience with sultry, erotic performance

The 1970s Bob Fosse hit returns to the Bristol theatre for a string of shows

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‘You don’t have to be invited – you do it’: Beth Steel on her working-class family epic

The playwright reflects on the importance of difficult conversations, putting female characters centre-stage and reading a Greek tragedy a day to write The House of Shades

The Guardian - UK

Mystery Sonatas/for Rosa review – an enigmatic endurance test

Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s tribute to five inspirational Rosas captivates – until it outstays its welcome

The Guardian - UK

The week in classical: The Handmaid’s Tale; Le Chemin de la Croix; Bournemouth SO/Karabits

Strong performances offset the misery in ENO’s new production of Poul Ruders’s opera. Elsewhere, Easter organ music and a cosmic world premiere

The Guardian - UK

Sad! Is Donald Trump just too boring for a grand Shakespearean makeover?

Bertie Carvel is brilliant in The 47th, Mike Bartlett’s ingenious play about the former US president, but the real parallel is not with the Bard’s kings but his hollow braggarts

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The Guardian - UK

Mystery Sonatas/for Rosa review – prayers, patterns and a sudden loss of trousers

Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker’s piece, dedicated to women of resistance, trades on lightness and simplicity but is overlong

The Guardian - UK

Olivier awards 2022: the full list of winners

Find out who won what at the Royal Albert Hall ceremony where Cabaret was toasted and Life of Pi proved a roaring success

The Guardian - UK

The Handmaid’s Tale review – ENO’s production of Atwood’s dystopia is chilling but slow to convince

Poul Ruder’s opera is at its most effective in its quietest moments, with the all-female production boasting strong performances from leads Emma Bell and Kate Lindsey

The Guardian - UK

Project Dictator review – meta clowning lays bare real terror

Rhum + Clay’s latest devised work is a Russian doll of a production whose layers peel back to reveal a fearful reality

The Guardian - UK

Anyone Can Whistle review – Sondheim flop gets a blazing revival

This 1964 curiosity – whose original production closed on Broadway after nine performances – finds brilliant new contexts for its absurdist story

The Guardian - UK

John Stahl obituary

Scottish actor who played the shy crofter Inverdarroch on TV’s Take the High Road and Rickard Karstark in Game of Thrones

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Traplord review – gripping journey through black masculinity

Ivan Michael Blackstock’s interrogation of stereotypes is broodingly atmospheric, strewn with imagery and often highly effective

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