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Jodie Comer, a gen-Z Elle Woods and a giant swimming pool: The best theatre of 2022, ranked

The Independent’s theatre critics have chosen their top stage shows of 2022, a year in which fresh new writing and charming musicals reigned supreme

The Independent UK

Theatre: Susannah Clapp’s 10 best shows of 2022

Thirties Harlem and the siege of Troy rocked, along with Joan of Arc, Orlando and the Ladies of Llangollen, to be greeted by funding cuts across the board

The Guardian - UK

Sons of the Prophet review – overstuffed drama by The Humans’ Stephen Karam

There’s some promising material in this tale of a struggling Lebanese American family – but too much story for the play to successfully contain

The Guardian - UK

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The week in theatre: Orlando; Hex review – an elemental Emma Corrin, and a bit of a beast at the National

Corrin shape-shifts to perfection in Neil Bartlett’s zestful take on Virginia Woolf, while a bad fairy casts a spell on Rufus Norris

The Guardian - UK

Kerry Jackson review – Fay Ripley’s lively striver is riddled with working-class cliches

April De Angelis’s comedy about a leave-voting entrepreneur in a gentrified area has echoes of Abigail’s Party and Educating Rita – except all the characters are reduced to types

The Guardian - UK

Kerry Jackson at the National Theatre review: Fay Ripley’s new show is a very odd but enjoyable romp

This theatrical sitcom is schematic but full of laughs with a cracking central performance by Fay Ripley

Evening Standard

Orlando at the Garrick Theatre review – Emma Corrin is captivating in this bold, tricksy experiment

Corrin anchors the show but it never feels like the emotional stakes are very high

Evening Standard

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Orlando review – Emma Corrin is glorious in a giddy, heartfelt show

In Neil Bartlett’s adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s wild-goose chase through time, Corrin shines as the hero who falls asleep as a man and wakes as a woman

The Guardian - UK

Orlando review: Emma Corrin is magnificent as Woolf’s punk rock protagonist

Michael Grandage’s production has an inventiveness and creativity that’s true to the spirit of Virginia Woolf’s novel

The Independent UK

Youth theatre group gives teens a voice to explore their world

More than 800 young people have been involved with the group

Liverpool Echo

The Rock’n’Roll Panto Red Riding Hood review – music is the star in an Everyman institution

The eponymous fairytale does not lend itself easily to panto – requiring some princely interference – but the cast is exuberant

The Guardian - UK

Toxteth actor has lead in blockbusting rock ’n’ roll panto

Liverpool's Everyman Theatre kicked off their festive rock ‘n’ roll panto Red Riding Hood with plenty of plot twists with a brilliant performance by a great cast

Liverpool Echo

The Wizard of Oz review – carnivalesque trip down the Yellow Brick Road

Catwalk-ready costumes, expressive puppetry and a knockabout cast make this a fun, if rather cluttered, production

The Guardian - UK

Alcina at the Royal Opera House review: spellbinding and unmissable

An endlessly inventive staging of Handel’s gloriously tuneful opera

Evening Standard

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The Guardian - UK

The week in theatre: Tammy Faye; Hamlet; Marvellous – review

Katie Brayben nails the title role in a musical otherwise lacking edge, Billy Howle makes a princely Hamlet and an all-new West End theatre is launched by an amazing life

The Guardian - UK

Tammy Faye: A New Musical review – Elton John’s hymn to biblical kitsch

Songs belt out deliriously in this romp through rise and fall of the Bakker televangelists and latterday gay icons – so thick and fast the James Graham script and Jake Shears lyrics are sometimes overwhelmed by glitz

The Guardian - UK

The Contingency Plan review – climate-crisis dramas on a human scale

Updated 13 years after their first showing, Steve Waters’ double bill of plays feels more urgent than before – while their personal dynamics hint at challenges yet to overcome

The Guardian - UK

Hamlet review – slick tragedy fuelled by fury

With inky backdrops, jagged sound and frenzied violence, John Haidar’s production stars Billy Howle as a prince emanating unhinged anger

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The Guardian - UK

The week in theatre: Good; The Band’s Visit; The Boy With Two Hearts – review

As a mild-mannered German academic who drifts into becoming an SS officer, David Tennant is transfixing

The Guardian - UK

‘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

Manchester Evening News

My Fair Lady musical coming back to Manchester - with EastEnders icon in leading role

The lavish production will see EastEnders legend Adam Woodyatt in a leading role for the show's big Manchester return

The Guardian - UK

The Band’s Visit review – entrancing musical about nothing and nowhere

When an Egyptian orchestra accidentally tips up in a sleepy Israeli backwater, lives are changed in the quietest of ways

The Guardian - UK

Blues for an Alabama Sky review – Harlem renaissance drama is a tale for our times

A group of friends in 1930s New York pursue diverging dreams in a transfixing production of Pearl Cleage’s play directed by Lynette Linton

The Guardian - UK

Othello review – taut update from the superb Watermill ensemble

An excellent cast animate Karla Marie Sweet’s adaptation with a drilled menace, while contemporary songs are employed to remarkable effect

The Guardian - UK

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

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