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Olivier awards 2023: full list of winners

My Neighbour Totoro, A Streetcar Named Desire and Prima Facie were among the winners at the Royal Albert Hall ceremony

The Guardian - UK

The week in theatre: five stars for Guys & Dolls, plus Marjorie Prime and The Tragedy of Macbeth – review

The audience is swept along with the action in Nicholas Hytner’s thrillingly immersive new Guys and Dolls; Nancy Carroll and Anne Reid surf memory and identity; and Shakespeare’s witches multitask

The Guardian - UK

The Week on Stage: From Guys and Dolls to Further Than the Furthest Thing

A guide to the week’s theatre

The Independent UK

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Marjorie Prime review – gently uncanny sci-fi shows us how to love an AI

Menier Chocolate Factory, LondonAnne Reid shines in this delicately written drama about a woman with dementia living with a robot re-creation of her late husband as a young man

The Guardian - UK

Guys and Dolls review – Nicholas Hytner’s gamble pays off

This immersive production of the New York musical has a bold design, superb singing and chemistry between its stars

The Guardian - UK

The Week on Stage: From The Great British Bake Off Musical to Bonnie and Clyde

A guide to the week’s theatre

The Independent UK

Sister Act at Bristol Hippodrome was 'hilarious, heartwarming and wonderfully camp'

A standing ovation on a Tuesday night is no mean feat

Bristol Post

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The Time Machine: A Comedy review – malfunctioning merriment

This riff on HG Wells’s sci-fi novella has a sharp cast but relies on a wearisome play-within-a-play concept and lacks momentum

The Guardian - UK

Ian McKellen and John Bishop make 'perfectly silly pair' in madcap Mother Goose at Liverpool Empire

The unlikely partnership came together for a night of fun "just because"

Liverpool Echo

John Bishop bringing 'most joyful' show he's worked on to Liverpool Empire this week

John will be starring in Mother Goose at Liverpool's Empire Theatre this week

Liverpool Echo

Trouble in Butetown review – humanity and heroism in wartime Cardiff

While Diana Nneka Atuona’s deft script could do with a final polish, its heart, humour and spirit sing in the hands of a luminous cast

The Guardian - UK

Sylvia review – storming show sets suffragettes to soul, funk and hip-hop

Historical characters bust contemporary dance moves while the troubled relationship between Sylvia Pankhurst and her mother Emmeline is laid bare

The Guardian - UK

Sir Ian McKellen and John Bishop bring hit panto Mother Goose to Salford for Easter

The starry panto has wowed audiences in London this Christmas - it will head to The Lowry for an Easter treat

Manchester Evening News

The week in theatre: As You Like It; Mandela; Kerry Jackson – review

Rose Ayling-Ellis stars in a fresh As You Like It; a Mandela musical can’t do the great man justice; and April De Angelis slips into two dimensions

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The Independent UK

Dolly Parton’s Smoky Mountain Christmas Carol review: Tennessee-based Dickens retelling is heavy on the cheese

Classic Christmas tale is given the Parton treatment, in a saccharine musical with flashes of fun

The Guardian - UK

Dolly Parton’s Smoky Mountain Christmas Carol review – humbug hoedown

Parton’s music is as warming as ever but a snowfall of schmaltz and minimal menace make this Dickens adaptation sickly sweet

Evening Standard

Dolly Parton’s Smoky Mountain Christmas Carol review: carried with glee and gusto

Dolly’s new songs are good and sometimes excellent in this imperfect tryout

The Guardian - UK

Mother Goose review – zany Ian McKellen rules over a fluffy affair

Panto finds dame and co-star John Bishop in need of a boost and better jokes, though song and dance performers give it unruly energy

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The Guardian - UK

A Tennessee twist on Dickens: behind the scenes of Dolly Parton’s Christmas Carol

The country superstar has written a clutch of new songs for this Appalachian take on the festive classic. But will she drop by to see it?

The Guardian - UK

A Christmas Carol review – Adrian Edmondson stars in a biting tale for our times

David Edgar’s sharp script feels close to home in this exuberant, illusion-filled version of Dickens’ seasonal but socially conscious story

Evening Standard

Mary at Hampstead Theatre review: Rona Munro’s queen’s tale utterly fails to spark

This play about Mary Stuart draws juicy contemporary parallels but this talky and monotonous production is less than the sum of its parts

The Guardian - UK

‘I threw my arms around Beckett!’ – electrifying first nights, by Ciarán Hinds, Eileen Atkins and more

The author of a new book about the greatest openings in theatre history asks stars of stage to recall their most thrilling first nights – and the occasional disasters that befell them

The Guardian - UK

The week in theatre: My Neighbour Totoro; Local Hero – review

A beloved Studio Ghibli anime is brought to magical life in Phelim McDermott’s new RSC production, while the 1983 film Local Hero finds fresh resonance

The Guardian - UK

My Neighbour Totoro review – dazzling staging of the Studio Ghibli classic

The Royal Shakespeare Company’s production has astonishing puppetry, magical music and huge emotional impact

The Guardian - UK

Local Hero review – musical misses the magic of Bill Forsyth’s classic

In spite of a nifty set and new songs, this story of an oil-man trying to buy a Highlands village never quite comes alive

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