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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

The Guardian - UK

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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

The Guardian - UK

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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?

Evening Standard

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?

The Guardian - UK

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

Evening Standard

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

The Guardian - UK

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

Evening Standard

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Playtime review – quirky gags and mimed mayhem as Tati comedy takes the stage

This adaptation of the classic 1967 film is packed with fun despite losing its way in the second half

The Guardian - UK

Silence review – a potent and poetic telling of the partition of India

The stage adaptation of Kavita Puri’s extraordinary oral history project is at times superficial and blunt but also deeply moving

The Guardian - UK

Much Ado About Nothing review – screwball Shakespeare goes with a swing

Simon Godwin masterfully directs a slick production starring Katherine Parkinson and John Heffernan

Manchester Evening News

Review: Sister Act is a sparkling spectacle at the Palace Theatre

But it's not the sing-a-long classic some might expect

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The Southbury Child review – a vicar picks an odd hill to die on

Even-handed to a fault, Stephen Beresford’s new comedy coasts by on sub-Alan Bennett humour and the odd eye-roll at wokeness. But its hero’s stance on balloons beggars belief

The Guardian - UK

Jitney review – a taut, tense tale of Black injustice in 1970s America

A stylish rework of the August Wilson character-study sees a standout performance from Wil Johnson as the put-upon head of the titular cab station

The Guardian - UK

Mog the Forgetful Cat review – a miaow-vellous musical treat

Judith Kerr’s warm-hearted children’s book is faithfully realised with a vivid and gently ingenious portrait of family life

Dublin Live

Audience get drenched at Singin' in the Rain in Bord Gais Energy Theatre

The cast kicked puddles of water at the audience

The Guardian - UK

The Unfriend review – manners can be the death of you in Steven Moffat’s comedy

Mark Gatiss directs Reece Shearsmith in Moffat’s cringe-tastic play that more than stands up next to the trio’s celebrated TV work

The Guardian - UK

Grease review – room-filling energy, nostalgia and first-rate tunes

The unreconstructed sexism remains but so too do the big song and dance numbers in a production featuring Peter Andre

Manchester Evening News

Review: Singin' in the Rain at Opera House

"Silken waves of gorgeousness one minute and fleet-footed fabulousness the next"

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