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The Hunger Games: On Stage review: a curiously uninvolving exercise in visual dazzle

3/5 Mia Carragher is excellent as Katniss, but sometimes this production feels closer to a circus than a play

Evening Standard

The Hunger Games: On Stage review – thundering fight to the death in a dazzling dystopia

Eye-popping visuals and a strong lead performance energise Matthew Dunster’s production – but the emotion gets lost amid the action

The Guardian - UK

‘A venue like this doesn’t exist elsewhere’: inside the colossal arena built for The Hunger Games

London’s Canary Wharf is being turned into the Capitol, with a bespoke £26m theatre made for the stage adaptation of Suzanne Collins’ bestseller. Our writer goes on a hard-hat tour

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Hedda review – Lily Allen leads a helter-skelter take on Ibsen’s tragedy

Allen is convincing as the bored newlywed but Matthew Dunster’s version gets lost between our time and Ibsen’s

The Guardian - UK

Britpop battle between Blur and Oasis revisited in ‘punchy’ new comedy

John Niven’s debut play explores rivalry between the two British bands who vied for the No 1 spot in the charts in 1995

The Guardian - UK

Dealer’s Choice at the Donmar: savagely comic study of male compulsion

4/5 Alfie Allen and Brendan Coyle star in this banter-filled play about a high stakes card game

Evening Standard

First look at Hunger Games stage show due to open at new London theatre

Producers of the stage adaptation of Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games have shared a first look at the production, ahead of it opening at London's new Troubadour Canary Wharf Theatre in October.

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‘Electrifying experience’: stage version of The Hunger Games to open in new London theatre

Conor McPherson’s adaptation of the hit YA sci-fi novels and films – which starred Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss Everdeen – will begin in October, having been delayed since last year

The Guardian - UK

Hope, hopelessness and heroism: why theatre is making a splash with sport

From the Gareth Southgate play Dear England to Red Speedo, about a swimmer caught doping, dramatists are using sport to examine class, race, morality – and life in Britain today

The Guardian - UK

Lily Allen to star in new version of Hedda Gabler ‘absolutely for now’

Matthew Dunster, who directed Allen in her West End debut 2:22: A Ghost Story, will write and direct the show for Bath’s Ustinov Studio next year

The Guardian - UK

The Homecoming review – Pinter’s timeless study of toxic masculinity

Playing a man meeting his daughter-in-law for the first time, Jared Harris brings out the dark comedy in Pinter’s snapshot of misogyny

The Guardian - UK

The Homecoming at the Young Vic review: an impeccable production of an important, deeply unpleasant play

There is a direct line to draw from the world of this play to the online toxic masculinity of today

Evening Standard

Hunger Games: loved the film? Now it's becoming a major London stage show

The blockbuster franchise will be adapted by Olivier Award-wining playwright Conor McPherson

Evening Standard

The Hunger Games stage adaptation coming to the West End

Script is being written by Olivier-winning playwright Conor McPherson

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Patrick Marber to direct Nachtland, a play about Hitler’s art and ‘rise of the new right’

Satire by German playwright Marius von Mayenburg will open next year at the Young Vic in London which will also revive Harold Pinter’s The Homecoming

Evening Standard

The Pillowman at the Duke of York’s review: Lily Allen is compulsively watchable in this wickedly funny work

Martin McDonagh’s swaggering play wrong-foots the audience throughout

The Independent UK

Jaime Winstone announced as Cheryl’s replacement in 2:22 A Ghost Story

Actor said she is ‘so excited’ to join the show previously led by former Girls Aloud star

Daily Mirror

Cheryl's West End replacement revealed as 2:22 A Ghost Story announce new celebrity cast

Following Cheryl and Jake Wood's stint in award-winning supernatural thriller, 2:22 A Ghost Story have now announced the latest round of stars set to tread the boards in the West End play

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