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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 Independent 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

The Guardian - UK

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

Evening Standard

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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

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

The Guardian - UK

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

Evening Standard

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‘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

The Guardian - UK

My Neighbour Totoro transfers to the West End: how the RSC turned a cult cartoon into a must-see theatre show

The creative team give the inside story on how they adapted the much-loved Studio Ghibli animation, breaking sales records in the process

Evening Standard

Review: The Color Purple at The Lowry Salford

If you want to feel uplifted, inspired and thoroughly entertained then this production won't disappoint

Manchester Evening News

The Doctor review – a repeat prescription for acute intellectual stimulation

Robert Icke’s combative 2019 play about medical ethics, identity politics and antisemitism returns to the West End to divide and challenge audiences

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‘Juliet Stevenson is incredible’: what audiences are saying about Robert Icke’s The Doctor

The arresting contemporary adaptation of Arthur Schnitzler’s 1912 drama makes its way to London’s West End this autumn. Here, those who were lucky enough to see it before the pandemic share their thoughts

The Guardian - UK

‘Should you tell a dying child the truth?’ The agonising dilemma at the heart of The Doctor

Robert Icke’s latest play turns on a question that lays bare the tensions between science, religion and identity

The Guardian - UK

The week in theatre: John Gabriel Borkman; Eureka Day – review

Simon Russell Beale is doubly commanding as Ibsen’s charismatic banker in a problem-raising revival, while a new anti-vax satire needs more than a shot of Helen Hunt’s star power

The Guardian - UK

John Gabriel Borkman review – Simon Russell Beale magnetic as the shamed alpha-male banker

Turning to a lesser-staged work by Ibsen might seem risky, but Nicholas Hytner’s production is held together by some powerhouse performances

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Evening Standard

John Gabriel Borkman review at the Bridge Theatre: this unsympathetic Ibsen is hard going

The three central performances are focused and intense, but even Simon Russell Beale can’t leaven the gloom

Evening Standard

Jews. In Their Own Words at the Royal Court Theatre review: no-one who needs to see this will actually go

This muddled act of public atonement on the part of the Court is a salutary watch but who is it for?

The Guardian - UK

Jews. In Their Own Words review – appalling revelations in a gallop through centuries of bigotry

Jonathan Freedland has turned 180,000 words drawn from interviews into a potent verbatim play about antisemitism and the blindspots of liberal institutions. The results feel urgent – but is its remit simply too large?

Evening Standard

Eureka Day at the Old Vic review: Helen Hunt superbly is understated in her London debut

The Oscar-winning actress has chosen a collegiate unstarry vehicle where the star is the incisive script

The Guardian - UK

Eureka Day review – Helen Hunt is an anti-vaxxer on the attack in anti-woke satire

What begins as a broad takedown of the liberal left morphs into an engrossing and textured debate on social justice, vaccination and the pull of conspiracy theory

The Guardian - UK

Once even Jews would utter the word ‘Jew’ in a whisper. Now it is up in lights

The fate of Jewish people is to be seen through a lens clouded by centuries of myth and imaginings. For a new play, I spoke to 12 British Jews whose stories illustrate the painful – and even bloody – consequences

Evening Standard

The Snail House at Hampstead Theatre: Richard Eyre’s long-awaited debut play sorely disappoints

The eminent director’s first play would have benefited from a more rigorous edit

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