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Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch: Vollmond review – glamorous, surreal and very, very wet

www.wakaticket.com – With its off-kilter comedy and flirtatious touches, this show is Bausch at her most accessible – and beautiful…
Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch: Vollmond review – glamorous, surreal and very, very wet
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Second Best review – Asa Butterfield excels as the boy who was nearly Harry Potter

www.wakaticket.com – Adapted from a French bestseller, this fictional story of Martin, who missed out on the role of a lifetime, becomes a meditation on how lives are changed…
Second Best review – Asa Butterfield excels as the boy who was nearly Harry Potter
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The week in theatre: Unicorn; Churchill in Moscow – review

www.wakaticket.com – Erin Doherty, Stephen Mangan and Nicola Walker rise to the challenge in Mike Bartlett’s witty dissection of a throuple. And Roger Allam makes a magnificent Churchill in Howard Brenton’s broad-brush latest…
The week in theatre: Unicorn; Churchill in Moscow – review
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The week in dance: Our Mighty Groove; Encantado – review

www.wakaticket.com – The elegant new Sadler’s Wells East opened with an inclusive love letter to clubland, while its sister theatre hosted a more abstract spectacle…
The week in dance: Our Mighty Groove; Encantado – review
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‘It is absolutely, fundamentally not autobiography’: Chris Bush on her new play about the trans experience

www.wakaticket.com – The award-winning British dramatist had a huge hit with her Richard Hawley musical Standing at the Sky’s Edge. Her latest, Otherland, is a much more personal piece – and, she says, frightening…
‘It is absolutely, fundamentally not autobiography’: Chris Bush on her new play about the trans experience
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Hadestown review – hit and myth continue to resonate in this primal tragedy

www.wakaticket.com – A strong cast overcomes some opening night problems to deliver a fiery and muscular version of an ancient tale…
Hadestown review – hit and myth continue to resonate in this primal tragedy
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Mary and the Hyenas review – patchy ode to Wollstonecraft and women ‘howling at the world’

www.wakaticket.com – Snappy movement and a Billy Nomates score can’t make up for the lack of emotional range in this portrait of the 18th-century writer…
Mary and the Hyenas review – patchy ode to Wollstonecraft and women ‘howling at the world’
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Bill Roberts obituary

www.wakaticket.com – Other lives: American actor who made his home and a successful career in Britain…
Bill Roberts obituary
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‘We’re much stronger than we think’: the Girl Gangs of all ages grappling on stage

www.wakaticket.com – From young office workers to a ‘Granny Grappler’, women are being shown how to throw their weight around in WrestleLadsWrestle. Its creator, a former teenage judo champion, tells us why…
‘We’re much stronger than we think’: the Girl Gangs of all ages grappling on stage
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Girls and Boys review – a devastating portrait of motherhood, marriage and violence

www.wakaticket.com – Aisling Loftus brings out the unease underlying every scene of Dennis Kelly’s haunting one-woman play…
Girls and Boys review – a devastating portrait of motherhood, marriage and violence
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Doubt review – Maxine Peake leads a crusade against a priest

www.wakaticket.com – In an emphatic production that prowls around the mess of human motive, Peake’s Sister Aloysius doggedly pursues a suspicion of abuse…
Doubt review – Maxine Peake leads a crusade against a priest
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Redwood review – Idina Menzel underwhelms in magic tree musical

www.wakaticket.com – The Broadway titan returns for an original musical that is sadly lacking in show-stopping songs or emotional depth …
Redwood review – Idina Menzel underwhelms in magic tree musical
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Unicorn review – Nicola Walker and Stephen Mangan’s throuple comedy doesn’t catch fire

www.wakaticket.com – There are a few zingy lines but this threesome play co-starring Erin Doherty is lots of talk and no action – and peculiarly devoid of passion…
Unicorn review – Nicola Walker and Stephen Mangan’s throuple comedy doesn’t catch fire
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The Autobiography of a Cad review – Ian Hislop and Nick Newman retell a rotter’s political progress

www.wakaticket.com – The Private Eye duo adapt AG Macdonell’s satire showing how a privileged chancer in English public life gets away with it…
The Autobiography of a Cad review – Ian Hislop and Nick Newman retell a rotter’s political progress
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Hear, hear for surtitles in all theatre productions | Letters

www.wakaticket.com – Letters: Readers respond to Tim Rice’s suggestion of surtitles for stage musicals…
Hear, hear for surtitles in all theatre productions | Letters
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Getting into the dance groove at school can help young people | Letters

www.wakaticket.com – Letters: Dance can inspire reluctant learners and those with mental health and anger issues, writes Penny Perrett…
Getting into the dance groove at school can help young people | Letters
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Escaped Alone and What If If Only review – Caryl Churchill’s double whammy of dazzling dread

www.wakaticket.com – Hiding behind the fluttering dialogue and domestic chatter lies a dark poetry in a pair of plays that address terrifying futures head on…
Escaped Alone and What If If Only review – Caryl Churchill’s double whammy of dazzling dread
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Chichester Festival theatre announces first Hamlet, starring Giles Terera

www.wakaticket.com – Justin Audibert’s production with the Hamilton star is part of season including Top Hat, Natalie Dormer’s Anna Karenina and new play Safe Space…
Chichester Festival theatre announces first Hamlet, starring Giles Terera
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Mark Ravenhill reveals 10 new plays to be performed over two days

www.wakaticket.com – The writer of Shopping and Fucking will direct cycle of bawdy comedies inspired by scenarios from a 17th-century Italian collection…
Mark Ravenhill reveals 10 new plays to be performed over two days
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More Life review – death-cheating tech drama is incredibly human

www.wakaticket.com – A wonderfully precise ensemble cast make this sci-fi vision of resurrection and immortality stab directly at the heart…
More Life review – death-cheating tech drama is incredibly human
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