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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

The Guardian - UK

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Dawn French Is a Huge Twat review – mini-masterpieces of self-mockery

French heaps detail upon self-abasing detail as she shares hugely engaging stories from her 40-year career

The Guardian - UK

Into the Woods review – Terry Gilliam’s rollicking take on Sondheim’s ‘fairytale collision’

Terry Gilliam’s production is visually enticing, playful and dreamlike but doesn’t quite reach the mournful depths of parental anxiety that run through the story

The Guardian - UK

The week in theatre: Closer, The Tempest, The Darkest Part of the Night – review

Patrick Marber’s four-way passion play still adds up; Sean Holmes takes enjoyable liberties with his party island Tempest; and the heartfelt vies with the spelled out in Zodwa Nyoni’s new work

The Guardian - UK

The Tempest review – the bard in budgie smugglers

Sean Holmes’s gleefully comic take is a riot of holiday colour and fun, featuring luminous lilos, stag do bantz and a playful Prospero in eyewateringly tight trunks

The Guardian - UK

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Billy Elliot the Musical review – the boy who just wants to dance is back in an electric new production

Nikolai Foster’s new version is more like a play with dance and songs, giving ideas around love and loss, community and isolation, passion and violence room to breathe

The Guardian - UK

Patriots review – Peter Morgan’s compelling study of Russian dissidence

Tom Hollander stars as Boris Berezovsky in The Crown creator’s new drama, which has a show-stealing performance by Will Keen as Vladimir Putin

The Guardian - UK

Patriots at the Almeida Theatre review: Tom Hollander stars in Peter Morgan’s cracking oligarchs’ tale

Rupert Goold’s witty production about the oligarch who arguably created Putin and was then destroyed by him is sadly very timely

Evening Standard

The Seagull review – woodchip-walled Chekhov is hypnotic

Emilia Clarke and Indira Varma star in Jamie Lloyd’s stripped-back West End production which asks probing questions about performance

The Guardian - UK

Mad House review – David Harbour and Bill Pullman spar in dark family psychodrama

Theresa Rebeck’s play follows the relationship between a terminally ill father and a mentally unstable son

The Guardian - UK

A Doll’s House, Part 2 review – Ibsen’s Nora returns for second round

Noma Dumezweni is a compelling lead in Lucas Hnath’s sequel, which is well drawn but a little too tightly controlled

The Guardian - UK

A Doll’s House, Part 2 review: A bit of Ibsen fanfic that’s more of a think piece than a drama

Noma Dumezweni stars in Lucas Hnath’s schematic Broadway hit about what Nora Helmer did next

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The Guardian - UK

Cursed Child star Noma Dumezweni: ‘As a Black woman in acting, I’m fearless now’

A landmark turn as Hermione in the Harry Potter play brought the actor to Disney and HBO’s attention. Now she’s playing godmother to a new generation of Black talent

The Guardian - UK

Violet review – Coult’s debut opera opens Aldeburgh with assurance

Alice Birch’s elliptical story of a wife finding freedom as society disintegrates is opaque but Tom Coult’s confident and varied score gives the work power

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

Britannicus review – political drama is deadly serious but full of sass

Timberlake Wertenbaker’s take on Racine’s version of ancient Rome is replete with power-crazed emperors, deadly poison and juicy family politics

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Nathaniel Curtis: ‘I’m tall, I’m half-Indian – the opportunities weren’t there five years ago’

The ‘It’s a Sin’ star waited half a decade for a decent gig – now he’s nabbed a major lead role on stage. He talks to Isobel Lewis about ‘Britannicus’ at the Lyric Hammersmith and why Russell T Davies’s Aids drama was so groundbreaking

The Guardian - UK

The Father and the Assassin review – gripping tale of the man who killed Gandhi

Anupama Chandrasekhar artfully unpicks the forces of history with a tale of violence and colonialism that echoes into today

The Independent UK

My Fair Lady review: Amara Okereke shines as Eliza Doolittle in Bartlett Sher’s glossy musical

Director wrings every last drop of comic potential out of classic musical

The Guardian - UK

My Fair Lady review – perfectly elegant, ever so sedate

Eliza Doolittle and Henry Higgins are back in a time capsule of nice frocks, great tunes and comic bickering – but it’s solid not spectacular

The Guardian - UK

The week in theatre: Oklahoma!; Unchain Me; House of Ife

Rodgers and Hammerstein’s first musical is roughed up; dreamthinkspeak amble around Brighton; and a first for Amharic on the British stage?

The Guardian - UK

House of Ife review – buried secrets unearthed by grief

A family gathers following a son’s death to tackle unfinished business provoked by cultural tensions and an absent father, in Beru Tessema’s absorbing play

The Guardian - UK

Oklahoma! review – an invigorating take on Rodgers and Hammerstein’s classic

This modern, sexy and unsettling show injects thrills into a familiar musical, making it feel newly minted

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