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From a charity single to an art exhibition to a wealth of shows at the Edinburgh fringe, the NHS is getting its own check up as it turns 70
Rory Mullarkey's absurdist cartoon about a society that topples into apocalyptic anarchy is not well served by Sam Pritchard's relentlessly jokey production
A dozen companies, including a military band, a gospel choir, multiple youth dance groups, are brought together for this high energy show
This feels like bonus treat from the 84-year-old: a play about our imperilled National Health Service that somehow leaves you bobbing on a wave of happiness
The film director has put together a special compilation of dancing from his movies and music videos for a festival, including his own goofball routines to Fatboy Slim. Here, he discusses hi…
Sally Cookson's adaptation of this best-seller about a boy coming to terms with grief is a wondrous feat of communal story-telling
The disengaged style of L-E-V's dancers may be deliberate, making a point about the loss of love, but it becomes boring to watch
Magnificent performers multitask in this epic story of the Lehman Brothers family business
Olivier Vinall stars in a genuinely funny production, that takes full advantage of the theatre's twilit, twee-lined charms
Sculpture, song, and shadow play are used to tell the story of 1.5 million Africans who worked as porters and carriers during the war
Hot Brown Honey are an Australian cabaret sensation " now, they're staging a new show at the Roundhouse working with young British artists
Vicky Jones wrote her first play, The One, for her best friend and Fleabag co-creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge. Now it's being revived " with a brand new star
In 1968, the Theatres Act did away with the Lord Chamberlain's red pen. But a new exhibition at the V&A looks at how subtler forms of censorship may still exist today
A collaboration between the string players of Scottish Ensemble and Swedish choreographer Örjan Andersson, where both sides feel like equal dancing partners
Two productions of open-air summer favourites prove enjoyably clear sighted, even if the performances are a mixed bag
'You are the most ignorant audience members I have ever had the misfortune to perform before'
Michael Grandage's splatter-fest revival is exuberantly gruesome
Is it ironic that this anti-establishment maverick should have her work celebrated at the other Stratford by the RSC? A bit " but you're soon swept up
Patrick Ness's bestselling novel is about a grieving boy and a giant, demonic tree. How on earth do you bring it to life in the theatre?
There's a smack of imperial condescension in Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical, but this is a culturally cogent account from Bartlett Sher
The former ballet dancer who changed the craft forever
They also worked together on The Phantom of the Opera and Aspects of Love
Jemma Kennedy's ambitious play has Enfield playing both Marx and God, while Jenni Murray lends her voice to a talking womb
A sublime adaptation of Alison Bechdel's acclaimed graphic-novel memoir about growing up lesbian in small-town Pennsylvania with a closeted gay father
A solid enough production, but it never quite meets the anguish or joy of Shakespeare's play of two halves
