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Stephen Sondheim's much-adored musical gets a dazzling new makeover with a bravura turn from the six-time Tony award winner ...

Inspired by the famous filmography of its Prospero, Jamie Lloyd's production is audaciously odd - a sci-fi Shakespeare, or gestural Greek theatre in outer space ...

Unfamiliar songs are performed beautifully in an episodic play featuring the escapades of the rackety real-life Addison and Wilson Mizner ...

Rebecca Frecknall's stark production brings out the rage in Williams' play through powerful performances, but fails to plumb all its emotional depths ...

The singing blows the roof off in this magnificently fun production of Dave Malloy's musical, based on a section of War and Peace ...

The quicksilver actor is a vocal glory as the poet and classicist AE Housman looking back at his younger, tormented self in Tom Stoppard's play ...

Our Evenings follows an actor through 60 years of treading the boards and holds up a mirror to how society has shapeshifted ...

After watching the glitziest pantomime in London, I had a night out at a hilarious 'adult' show. It was a good reminder that you don't need big money to deliver big laughs, writes Guardian columnist Zoe Williams ...

Sarah Snook put Succession behind her, Hofesh Shechter found horror in Albion and Rhod Gilbert was ecstatic to be alive, in our critics' picks of the best stage shows of the year ...

An adept cast, including Amber Gray, Jessica Hecht and Bill Irwin, bring a sharply funny and timely new play to life ...