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Check tickets, play a dragon, feed the cat: the volunteers who go all out to keep theatres going
Offering up their time and energy, unpaid staff have become a crucial support for an embattled industry. They explain what’s in it for them

Kate Wyver

01, Mar, 2024 @11:24 AM

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‘I hope it will send a message’: musical Rent to be reimagined with deaf actors
Using an ensemble cast of deaf and hearing actors, director Lilac Yosiphon aims to explore the isolation felt by the deaf community during the Aids crisis in the 1980s

Caroline Butterwick

07, Feb, 2024 @11:59 AM

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Christmas shows: Evita; Peter Pan review – from Argentina to Neverland, a search for connection
The action feels distanced in Nikolai Foster’s coolly striking new production of the Lloyd Webber-Rice musical, while turmoil stalks the Darling household in Cardiff

Clare Brennan

17, Dec, 2023 @11:30 AM

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Evita review – oh what a circus as musical gets bizarre update
Argentina’s Eva Perón is reimagined as a modern-day influencer in an incoherent production lacking context

Miriam Gillinson

01, Dec, 2023 @11:00 PM

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Metamorphosis review – Lemn Sissay adaptation is more poetic than dramatic
This staging of Kafka’s story is physically exciting, even tireless, but it hits an early peak of terror then has nowhere to go for two hours

Mark Fisher

21, Sep, 2023 @8:56 AM

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Shamel Pitts: Black Hole review – fragile glimpses of an Afrofuturist world
The US dancer conjures a potent spectacle filled with mysterious symbolism as three figures strain, combine and detach in stirring, almost ritual patterns

Sanjoy Roy

07, May, 2023 @10:28 AM

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The best theatre of 2022
In a superb year for the stage, our chief critic gives 10 shows an extra round of applause. Plus, Guardian theatre reviewers each pick their 2022 standout

Arifa Akbar

15, Dec, 2022 @3:00 PM

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The Wizard of Oz review – carnivalesque trip down the Yellow Brick Road
Catwalk-ready costumes, expressive puppetry and a knockabout cast make this a fun, if rather cluttered, production

Ryan Gilbey

25, Nov, 2022 @7:00 PM

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Othello review – Frantic Assembly’s urgent, thrilling tragedy
This physical, modern-day version is immersed in violence, with gang members vying for sex and authority around a pool table

Mark Fisher

22, Sep, 2022 @9:33 AM

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Finding Home review – Idi Amin’s expulsions remembered
Fifty years on, these specially commissioned pieces movingly and unflinchingly reflect the experiences of Ugandan refugees in Britain

Clare Brennan

07, Aug, 2022 @10:30 AM

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Cancellations, costs and chaos: UK theatres grapple with rising Covid cases
Infections among workforce lead theatres to cancel performances, with loan repayments, soaring energy prices and the cost of living crisis adding to their woes

Chris Wiegand Stage editor

14, Jun, 2022 @3:42 PM

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Ballet Hispánico review – Latinx bite, humour and vogueing in heels
The New York company makes a long-awaited English debut with a colourful and lively triple bill that interrogates Latinx stereotypes while celebrating self-actualisation

Lyndsey Winship

08, May, 2022 @10:09 AM

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