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The Week on Stage: From Good to Peaky Blinders – The Redemption of Thomas Shelby

A guide to the week’s theatre

The Independent UK

Good review – David Tennant is magnificent in chilling drama

Revived with a superb cast, CP Taylor’s play about a professor embracing nazism is fascinating psychological theatre with the feel of a fever dream

The Guardian - UK

Woman in Mind review – when the vicar’s wife’s worst nightmare is her own life

Jenna Russell stars in Alan Ayckbourn’s exploration of mental illness with an accomplished cast of supporting characters ably adding to the anguish

The Guardian - UK

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The Crucible review – stylish restaging is all beauty and no bite

Director Lyndsey Turner misses the opportunity to give Arthur Miller’s allegory modern resonance with a too-faithful interpretation

The Guardian - UK

The Crucible at the National Theatre review: Erin Doherty lights up the stage in this fresh revival

Lyndsey Turner’s production of a bona fide classic rolls over us with remorseless, implacable intent

Evening Standard

The cold never bothered them anyway: how Frozen made musical magic

The set, costume, video and lighting designers of Disney’s London production – now in its second year in the West End – break the ice about the show’s frocks, crystals and astonishing effects

The Guardian - UK

Oscar winning composer reveals the life-changing impact of Disney's Beauty and the Beast as it comes to Bristol

As the stage adaptation of the Disney classic is set to return to the Bristol Hippodrome this September, EGOT winner Alan Menken discusses how his most’ ‘intensely personal’ project has still remained as a cultural phenomenon for decades

Bristol Post

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Much Ado About Nothing review – hilarious, heartfelt show is everything

Daneka Etchells is the most compelling Beatrice you might ever see in an exceptional production of the romantic comedy

The Guardian - UK

The Cherry Orchard review – Chekhov in space

Vinay Patel’s sci-fi adaptation boldly goes into the future on a rickety starship while exploring entrenched hierarchies and class

The Guardian - UK

Review: We Will Rock You at Palace Theatre

With 24 of rock legends Queen's biggest hits, you know you're in for a foot stomping, fist pumping kind of night

Manchester Evening News

The Narcissist review – a darkly honest dissection of post-Trump politics

A spin doctor’s life spirals into chaos after he’s hired by an ambitious senator in Christopher Shinn’s grimly comic drama

The Guardian - UK

Six the Musical review: 'Don't Lose Ur Head' but this is seriously good

Move over Henry, it's time to let the women tell their story

Manchester Evening News

Sugar, butter, fantastic: Waitress Musical review at Nottingham Theatre Royal

It was a fantastic performance

Nottingham Post

Bugsy Malone review – splurge guns at the ready for a twinkling revival

With charismatic performances and playful effects, Sean Holmes’ slick touring production is escapist fun

The Guardian - UK

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The week in theatre: Rock/ Paper/ Scissors; The Fellowship

Timing is everything in Chris Bush’s theatre-hopping trio of Sheffield plays; the same goes for Roy Williams’s ill-starred new Windrush generation drama

The Guardian - UK

Rock/Paper/Scissors review – sharp-edged trilogy celebrates a city in flux

Sheffield TheatresChris Bush’s audacious production, performed simultaneously by the same cast across three theatres, intertwines comedy, romance and political rage to dazzling effect

The Independent UK

The Week on Stage: From The Glass Menagerie to Jordan Brookes

The highs and lows of the week’s theatre

The Guardian - UK

The Glass Menagerie review – Amy Adams’s West End debut fails to find its heart

Tennessee Williams’s story of yearning, passion and despair never puts us under its spell in Jeremy Herrin’s production

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Evening Standard

The Glass Menagerie at Duke of York’s Theatre review: Amy Adams’ West End debut is muted and unconvincing

As a West End star vehicle for the celebrated actress, The Glass Menagerie barely passes its MOT

Chronicle Live

ABBA Voyage review: London spectacle delivers a mind blowing journey to pop perfection

ABBA Voyage is now open in London with the Swedish supergroup performing their classic tracks as avatars

The Guardian - UK

Murder on the Orient Express review – a first-class ride all the way

Henry Goodman gives us every inch of Hercule Poirot’s dandiness and comedy in this exemplary adaptation of Christie’s ingenious murder mystery, but also gets every note of the character’s vast intelligence and pain

Manchester Evening News

Little Black girls simply didn’t get to see a reflection of themselves as Disney princesses... until now

Why the lead actors in Beauty and the Beast at Manchester's Palace Theatre represent a watershed moment for theatre

Evening Standard

The Breach at Hampstead Theatre review: An admirable message can’t keep this emotional rollercoaster on track

It takes you on one hell of a journey, but doesn’t ring entirely true

Evening Standard

David Eldridge: My play Middle is about the blue collar classes, but where else are they in theatre?

The Essex-born playwright asks why, as theatre diversifies, do the working class-made-good seem to remain invisible

The Guardian - UK

‘The trembling is real’: how does it feel to sing a musical showstopper?

From Elsa letting it go in Frozen to Sally Bowles belting out Cabaret, the performers of the most barnstorming numbers in musicals share the thrill of bringing the house down

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