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The Week on Stage: From The Glass Menagerie to Jordan Brookes

The highs and lows of the week’s theatre

The Independent 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

The Guardian - UK

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 Independent UK

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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 Guardian - 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 Independent 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

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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

The Guardian - UK

Oklahoma! review: Stripped back version is the best revival yet

After triumphing at the Tonys, this pared-back production comes to London

Evening Standard

The week in theatre: The Great Middlemarch Mystery; The 47th; For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide…

A site-specific quest gets to the heart of George Eliot’s novel; Mike Bartlett makes a Shakespearean tragedy of Trump; and six young black men find full expression in Ryan Calais Cameron’s eloquent new play

The Guardian - UK

Scandaltown review – smut and silliness in modern Restoration comedy

Mike Bartlett’s rambunctious capers with types including Lady Susan Climber and Matt Eton MP are great fun if not exactly stinging satire

The Guardian - UK

Scandaltown at the Lyric Hammersmith review: Mike Bartlett’s social pastiche is showy but insubstantial

This contemporary Restoration comedy is one of Bartlett’s sketchier works

Evening Standard

Cabaret’s Elliot Levey: ‘This Passover, an exodus is happening in real time’

As Jews prepare to recount the escape from Egypt over the Seder night, the Olivier award-winning actor reflects on his personal connection to the Ukrainian conflict

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Evening Standard

The 47th, Old Vic review: A hideously transformative turn from Bertie Carvel as Trump

Mike Bartlett’s blank-verse drama about Trump running for president (again) is eloquent and clever, but has surprisingly little to say

The Guardian - UK

The 47th review – Bertie Carvel is devilishly good but this Trumpian satire feels too soon

Mike Bartlett’s script turns US politics into Shakepearean comedy but falls oddly flat despite magnetising performances

The Independent UK

Lydia Wilson: ‘People slightly take the brakes off their misogyny when they talk about Ivanka Trump’

Eight years after playing Kate Middleton in a ‘future history’ play, the British actor is now playing Donald Trump’s ‘ambiguous’ daughter Ivanka in another. She speaks to Isobel Lewis about offensive casting, disgusted audiences, and why theatre actors need to get their hands dirty

The Guardian - UK

Daddy: A Melodrama review – Black art, white money and love in Speedos

A white billionaire art collector’s relationship with a young Black artist forms the heart of this bold, brawny play about race, patronage and exploitation

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The Guardian - UK

Playwright Jackie Sibblies Drury on race, creativity and the legacy of Mary Seacole

The new play by the Pulitzer-winning writer of Fairview links the story of the pioneering Jamaican nurse in Crimea to female carers across history

The Guardian - UK

To Kill a Mockingbird review – Harper Lee would approve of snappy Sorkin update

Rafe Spall is a dignified Atticus Finch in Aaron Sorkin’s smooth and confident adaptation, which finds modern-day resonances in the 1960 classic about racial injustice in the American south

Liverpool Echo

Cherry Jezebel at the Everyman Theatre is relevant as ever and not to be missed

The show was filled with jokes in all the right places

Evening Standard

How Cabaret designer Tom Scutt recreated the Kit Kat Club: ‘It has to feel like it’s happening here and now’

Transforming the Playhouse Theatre into a Weimar nightclub over the course of just a few months was a huge task - here’s how it happened

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