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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

The Guardian - UK

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

The Guardian - UK

A Mirror at the Almeida Theatre review: thrilling and infuriating in equal measure

Clever, thoughtful and tricksy, Sam Holcroft’s work about a playwright in an authoritarian regime is also exasperating

Evening Standard

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Axed Covid vaccine deal with Livingston firm cost taxpayers £358m

THE UK Government has been accused of “absolutely shafting” a Scottish vaccine plant after it emerged a contract it axed cost taxpayers £358.6…

The National (Scotland)

Black Mirror’s Anjana Vasan: ‘I’ve been underestimated because I’m small, brown and foreign’

The award-winning star of ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ tells Ellie Harrison about subverting stereotypes, and playing a reluctant serial killer in Charlie Brooker’s dystopian anthology thriller

The Independent UK

National Theatre: Runners and riders to replace Rufus Norris in top job

Rufus Norris’s departure from the National Theatre leaves a gap at the top of British Theatre but there is no shortage of potential successors.

Evening Standard

‘I want it to feel quite feral’: Rebecca Frecknall on staging Romeo and Juliet

From Cabaret to Streetcar, the West End’s hottest director Rebecca Frecknall has a reputation for finding leads who put bums on seats. ‘I just go on my gut,’ she says

The Guardian - UK

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The week in theatre: Retrograde; The Secret Life of Bees; Dixon and Daughters – review

Kiln; Almeida; Dorfman, LondonIn his quickfire new McCarthy-era play, For Black Boys… creator Ryan Calais Cameron speaks his mind; a civil rights musical buzzes with potential; and Deborah Bruce’s domestic abuse drama is full of surprises

The Guardian - UK

The Secret Life of Bees review – blazing songs light up civil rights drama

A young white woman and her Black housekeeper flee across the American south amid the historic struggle, buoyed by astonishingly powerful music

The Guardian - UK

My Neighbour Totoro triumphs at Olivier awards

Adaptation of Studio Ghibli film wins six awards, while Jodie Comer wins for Prima Facie and A Streetcar Named Desire brings Paul Mescal best actor prize

The Guardian - UK

Streetcar director Rebecca Frecknall: ‘I thought Paul Mescal was too young for Stanley but Brando was only 27’

Since her breakthrough show in 2018, Frecknall has gone from being virtually unknown to one of theatre’s most in-demand directors

Evening Standard

A Streetcar Named Desire with Paul Mescal transfers to West End

Critically acclaimed and now boasting an Oscar nominee, the Almeida’s Tennessee Williams production will move to the Phoenix theatre this spring

The Guardian - UK

Almeida Theatre cancels first week of Streetcar Named Desire as lead actor withdraws

Islington theatre brings in Patsy Ferran for lead part after Lydia Wilson pulls out

Evening Standard

‘Fame, greed, redemption – the story is biblical’: behind the scenes of Tammy Faye

With songs by Elton John and Jake Shears and a script by James Graham, this new musical about the televangelist has a lot of talent behind it. The creative team explain how they brought her dramatic life story to the stage

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The Doctor at the Duke of York’s Theatre review: Juliet Stevenson is at the top of her game

A very potent evening in the theatre

The Guardian - UK

‘It’s like there’s a live wire in the room’: the subversive on-stage energy of The Doctor

Director Anthony Almeida and cast members Mariah Louca, Doña Croll and Christopher Osikanlu Colquhoun share their thoughts on bringing Robert Icke’s brilliant new play to life – and why it is a work that speaks to the current moment

Evening Standard

Juliet Stevenson on The Doctor’s West End transfer and channelling personal tragedy into her work

The delayed transfer from the the Almeida starts previews this week

The Guardian - UK

On my radar: Claes Bang’s cultural highlights

The Danish actor on a horror film from his homeland, the physical impact of Francis Bacon and his favourite London restaurant

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The Clinic at the Almeida Theatre review: by turns fascinating and frustrating but not afraid of big questions

Dipo Baruwa-Etti’s latest play could be more finessed but it’s got lots to chew over

The Guardian - UK

The Crown’s Peter Morgan to premiere play about Russian oligarchs

Patriots will open at the Almeida in London and star Tom Hollander as Boris Berezovsky, with Vladimir Putin and Roman Abramovich among the characters

The Guardian - UK

‘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

Daddy: A Melodrama review – Black art, white money and love in Speedos

A white billionaire art collector’s relationship with a young Black artist forms the heart of this bold, brawny play about race, patronage and exploitation

Evening Standard

Spring tickets 2022: The best plays and exhibitions to see this season

Get out there (but avoid the snow)

The Guardian - UK

Key workers to take centre stage at Almeida theatre in London

Cycle of short plays will celebrate roles often underappreciated by those in positions of power

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