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The week in theatre: Great Expectations; Infamous; That Face – review
Pip becomes Pipli in Tanika Gupta’s colonial Indian take on Dickens; Caroline Quentin and daughter are a dream team in April De Angelis’s Emma Hamilton romp; and Polly Stenham’s 2007 debut hits home in a devastating revival
Kate Kellaway
17, Sep, 2023 @9:30 AM
Dancing City; Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater – review
A change of clothes proves transformative in Canary Wharf’s al fresco dance fest, while Alvin Ailey’s season ends as it began, with dazzling grace
Sarah Crompton
17, Sep, 2023 @8:00 AM
The Little Big Things review – a remarkable tale of resilience
A new musical built around the true story of a promising young rugby player paralysed in a teenage accident is movingly full of the joy of being alive
Kit Buchan
17, Sep, 2023 @5:00 AM
On my radar: Jamie Lloyd’s cultural highlights
The award-winning theatre director on being stopped in the street to talk about his tattoos, the influence of the musician Ryuichi Sakamoto and the play he’d love to direct
Jamie Lloyd
16, Sep, 2023 @2:00 PM
‘Who can afford them?’: theatregoers react to £395 tickets for Neil Simon play
Next year’s opening of Plaza Suite in West End, with Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick, reignites affordability debate
Rupert Jones and Harriet Sherwood
15, Sep, 2023 @4:43 PM
The Little Big Things review – big-hearted musical is a true-story tearjerker
This adaptation of a memoir by a 17-year-old aspiring rugby pro paralysed by a holiday accident has catchy songs, strong performances and schmaltz
Arifa Akbar
15, Sep, 2023 @12:17 PM
‘The despair is the same’: Alan Bleasdale and James Graham on bringing back Boys from the Blackstuff
It’s a dream team: the creator of the 1982 BBC series and the writer of Sherwood. The pair meet in Liverpool to discuss putting Yosser and the lads on stage in a new era of economic desperation
Mark Lawson
15, Sep, 2023 @11:00 AM
That Face review – stunning revival will tear right through you
Revelatory performances fill this devastating production of Polly Stenham’s play about a family ripped apart by addiction and loneliness
Miriam Gillinson
15, Sep, 2023 @10:51 AM
Infamous review – Caroline and Rose Quentin share Emma Hamilton’s scandal
The painter’s muse, who was the mistress of Lord Nelson, remains disappointingly flat in April De Angelis’s new play
Miriam Gillinson
14, Sep, 2023 @11:55 AM
Great Expectations review – Bengal in 1905 is tailor-made for Dickens
Tanika Gupta brings authority and nuance to her adaptation, exploring class, colonialism, partition and invasion – and finding unexpected resonance
Nick Ahad
14, Sep, 2023 @10:21 AM
A View from the Bridge review – a fresh look at an elemental tragedy
In Holly Race Roughan’s thrilling and dynamic production, Arthur Miller’s classic about a Brooklyn longshoreman and his family roils with primal passions
Mark Fisher
14, Sep, 2023 @9:22 AM
Dear Evan Hansen and Dracula to headline Sydney Theatre Company’s 2024 program
STC will put on Tony Award-winning musical’s first original production since Broadway, an opportunity that artistic director Kip Williams describes as ‘thrilling’
Sian Cain
14, Sep, 2023 @9:00 AM
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