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Imelda Staunton and Jenny Seagrove, the great pretenders
Two of our British theatre’s finest are outstanding in Mrs Warren's Profession and The Anastasia File
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Corny country musical Shucked is no Book of Mormon
The Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre’s US hit is a sub-prime Oklahoma
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Why you must see The Fifth Step
Jack Lowden and Martin Freeman are whip-smart in this theatrical display of profundity, humour and compassion
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Why did they bother with this mis-shaped monument to Sondheim?
The posthumously completed Here We Go has no songs, no story and no reason to be on stage
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Riefenstahl is forensic film-making at its very best
Andres Veiel’s magnificent documentary lets Riefenstahl, in her interviews, recordings and archived files, speak for herself
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Jessie Buckley and the worst night of theatre in 50 years
Tim Crouch’s An Oak Tree is a boring, self-indulgent mess
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The critics love Chris O’Dowd’s new play. They’re wrong
Conor McPherson’s The Brightening Air is a slow-burner without much to say
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Ewan McGregor is superb as Ibsen meets Succession
My Master Builder is a twisting climbing frame of revenge and misery
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The play that gets Oscar Wilde right
The Importance of Being Oscar is a personal triumph for actor Alastair Whatley
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Sweat, the play Donald Trump should watch
How did Trump secure a second term? Why has he started a tariff war? The 2017 winner of the Pulitzer prize for drama offers an explanation
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The Alto Knights is Robert De Niro's victory lap
Barry Levinson’s true-crime gangster story is a pleasing encapsulation of five decades of cinematic culture
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Black Bag will keep you guessing until the very end
Forty years since his first feature film, Steven Soderbergh has rarely been better
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The Seagull is an evening of convention-busting Chekhov
The imaginative liberties on show here are the trademark of director Thomas Ostermeier
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Review: You wait ages for a great role for a woman.. in Backstroke, two come at once
Celia Imrie and Tamsin Greig are funny, tragic and unforgettable
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Review: Tom Hiddleston’s CBeebies Shakespeare is a waste of space hopper
Hayley Atwell can’t save a witless update of Much Ado About Nothing
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Vulnerable, terrifying Rami Malek will have you in rhapsodies
The man who played Freddie Mercury stuns in an Oedipus revival
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The Ambassadress of French Song
One chance encounter transforming a life is rare enough. Guilbert enjoyed two a few days apart
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Terence Rattigan’s mainline to the human condition
A revival of two of his best-loved plays from the 1950s have plenty to say today
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Life after Death
Death of England, one of the cultural highlights of 2024, is coming to streaming. But what’s next for playwright Roy Williams?
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A Bad Sister’s very good stage return
The Little Foxes confirms Anne-Marie Duff as a true great
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The best interpretation of The Tempest I've ever seen
Sigourney Weaver shines in her west end debut in Jamie Lloyd’s powerful new production of Shakespeare’s final solo-authored play
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What’s the point of reproducing this Mel Brooks classic?
Patrick Marber’s unremarkable revival delivers polite laughs only
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Black Doves is festive fun at its most lethal
Our editor-at-large’s rundown of the pick of the week’s streaming, cinema, theatre and books
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An Oscar Wilde reboot that’s not earnest enough
Max Webster's production of The Importance of Being Earnest fails to commit to doing something truly innovative
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Only a humbug could resist John Simm’s Scrooge
The Old Vic’s Dickens classic still carries a powerful message about poverty and greed
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The actress pursued by misfortune and tragedy
Her young daughters grieving before a grave she didn’t occupy was not even the worst tribulation to afflict the life of the Hungarian
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What’s the point of the Dr. Strangelove revival?
Yes, it’s amusing - but Steve Coogan is no Sellers and this can’t match the Kubrick classic
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A Greek king stalks the West End
A new production of Oedipus shows how it should be done
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Lehman Brothers collapses… again
A good show first time round is back for an ill-advised encore
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Theatre review: Felicity Kendal shows she is still on top of her game in Filumena
A play that’s as light and refreshing as a glass of champagne
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Matthew d’Ancona’s Culture: Music, mayhem and murder in Todd Phillips’s Gotham sequel
Joker: Folie à Deux takes music and makes it a medium for deception, pain and lethal misunderstanding
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Megalopolis is a bold, flawed, epic masterpiece
Francis Ford Coppola’s hell-for-leather sci-fi epic was 40 years in the making and is an extraordinary film that defies convention