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Theatre

Groundhog Day at the Old Vic: good enough to watch again and again

If this show doesn’t quite escape the shadow of its source material, it adds dimension and depth to it

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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button at Southwark Playhouse: a delight

This musical version of the well-loved tale is full of rich, lovely numbers

Theatre

Sarah Jessica Parker set to make West End debut in Plaza Suite

The Golden Globe-winner will appear at the Savoy Theatre from January 15

Theatre

Andrew Scott, Fleabag’s sexy priest, announces one man show in London

Sherlock star to appear in Vanya, a Simon Stephens adaptation of Chekov’s Uncle Vanya

Insider

Is Brokeback Mountain really the queer story we need right now?

There’s much to love about this new stage adaptation but surely it’s time for bolder queer narratives, says Jason Okundaye

Theatre

Tim Sheader named as the new Donmar Warehouse boss

He comes straight from a long tenure at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre

Theatre

The Shape of Things at Park Theatre: precision engineered black comedy

Though slightly dated, the play is slick and efficient - and funny

Theatre

Newsroom sitcom Drop the Dead Donkey to return as stage show

The play will feature seven of the iconic Channel 4 show’s original cast members

Theatre

Great Expectations at the Garrick: Izzard’s Dickens is not so great

This adaptation of the Dickens classic is neither theatre nor comedy

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West End tributes for Tina Turner as fans hail ‘electric’ musical show

Fans laid flowers outside the venue showing the musical based on her extraordinary life

Theatre

Luke Newton on returning to the stage, glow-ups and Colin Bridgerton

As he prepares to star in The Shape of Things at the Park Theatre, everyone’s favourite Bridgerton brother says he’s excited to look audiences in the eye again

Theatre

A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the Globe: a fresh take on the forest romp

I’ve seen this play a hundred times, so it’s always a delight when a production shows it in new light

Comedy

Showstopper! at the Cambridge Theatre review: still going strong

Creating shows from scratch is seemingly effortless for this ensemble, who never seem to lose their way

Theatre

Podcast: Eddie Izzard on her solo adaptation of Great Expectations

Plus, open audience rehearsals around UK for her new Hamlet show

Theatre

Ruth Wilson’s masterful stage marathon

The award-winning actor performed the same scene for a whole day opposite a revolving cast of 100 actors and amateurs. It was superb

Showbiz

Scherzinger to star in new West End production of Sunset Boulevard

The new show will be directed by Jamie Lloyd and play at the Savoy Theatre for 16 weeks from September

Theatre

Brokeback Mountain @sohoplace – a subtle piece of dramatic alchemy

This is a gem of a show with star turns by the two arthouse-cool American leads

Theatre

The Comedy of Errors at Shakespeare’s Globe – bawdy and boisterous

Amid all the nonsense, you find yourself falling for the idiots in one of Shakespeare’s earliest plays

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Bleak Expectations at the Criterion Theatre: a mediocre Dickens parody

To borrow one of the show’s parodic lines: please sir, could we have some less

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Once on This Island at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre: told with verve

There are many stirring performances in this revival of the show that puts a Caribbean spin on the story of The Little Mermaid

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How to Succeed... at Southwark Playhouse: should have stayed lost

This musical, with its dodgy sexual politics, has been justly neglected

Theatre

Cush Jumbo joins David Tennant in the Donmar Warehouse’s Macbeth

Tennant and Jumbo previously acted together in Channel 4’s Deadwater Fell

Theatre

Theatre Podcast: Ryan Calais Cameron on his new play ‘Retrograde’

Plus our reviews of The Motive and the Cue and The Good Person of Szechwan

Theatre

Operation Mincemeat at Fortune Theatre: just what the West End needs

Mincemeat the musical has wit, charm and a Eurobeat number for a Nazi boyband

Theatre

August in England at the Bush review: funny and wrenchingly affecting

Henry can confidently add ‘playwright’ to his already polymathic CV

London

I relate to Hollywood star’s love affair with theatre, says Middleton

Tuppence Middleton is joined in The Motive and the Cue by Johnny Flynn as her husband Richard Burton and Mark Gatiss as Sir John Gielgud

Theatre

The Motive and the Cue at the NT: an elegant love letter to theatre

In this look at Richard Burton and Sir John Gielgud’s staging of Hamlet on Broadway, the play is not the thing

Theatre

Jodie Comer scores first Tony Award nomination for Broadway debut

Her breakout theatre role in Prima Facie earned four nods in total

Culture

Theatre Podcast: Aimee Lou Wood and John McCrea on life in Cabaret

Plus reviews of Ain’t Too Proud - The Life and Times of The Temptations, and the new revival of Dancing at Lughnasa at the National Theatre

Theatre

Kenneth Branagh to play King Lear in the West End

It will mark the actor and director’s first stage role since The Winter’s Tale in 2015

Theatre

A Play for the Living in a Time of Extinction: provocative but preachy

It’s a Sin’s Lydia West brings vulnerability and likeability to her stage debut

London

Sally Greene resigns from Old Vic Theatre Trust

Ms Greene has said on her website that she persuaded Oscar-winning actor Kevin Spacey to take on the role of artistic director in 2003

Theatre

The Motive and the Cue: the story behind Burton and Gielgud’s Hamlet

Sam Mendes was inspired to commission The Motive and the Cue after finding a book on the tumultous 1964 staging of Hamlet on Broadway - now it’s at the National Theatre

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Adjoa Andoh on Richard III, Bridgerton and colourblind casting

The actress and director brings her new take on the vilified king to the Rose Theatre

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Ain’t Too Proud review: Temptations musical rolls out hit after hit

Compilation musicals have had a bad press, but this is a hugely superior example of the genre.