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Beautifully executed production is let down by a dud script

One star recreates another, but we learn more about Ava's men than about Ava herself

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Nicky Allpress puts Shakespeare's star-crossed lovers in the midst of an 80s Brixton feud.

Tamara Rojo doesn't go far enough in re-inventing Raymonda, its new story lacking the boldness of its new setting in the Crimean War.

Skiing on stage? That's not the only slippery slope in this clever adaptation of the 2014 Swedish movie about failing fathers and the, gulp, crisis of masculinity.

Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand lead Joel Coen's cinematic tour de force

Gary Naylor finds some magnificent productions in a difficult year for theatre

Even those as lucky as regular reviewers do not take theatres' unique pleasures for granted - here are a few of our favourite things

A collage of scenes set largely in Latin America examine when, or if, individuals can find a place in fracturing communities.

It's good to hear collective laughter again in a theatre, but the dated characters grate rather than charm, and fewer jokes land in 2020s than in the 1970s.

Though flawed by too much dialogue, West Side Story will thrill young and old with its set pieces and soaring score

James Graham's new play bristles with wit, recreating Gore Vidal and William F Buckley's TV debates of 1968 - and a whole lot more

Fine theatrical effects, but thus adaptation of Lyra Belacqua's first year of life never escapes the confines imposed by the origin story genre's structure

A lesson not just in history, but in theatre, from an ensemble and creative team in complete command of complex, riveting material

A madcap, spoofing comedy briiming with energy and chest hair

A new play with music tells the story of Anne Bonny and Mary Read, two cross-dressing pirates, through song and rhyme

Ferocious and funny, Ireland's play has lost none of its power, and gained even more relevance, ten years on from its Omagh debut

A beautiful production that does not intend to break new ground - and is all the better for it.

Some curious directorial choices fail to blunt the force of Wagner's musical donner und blitzen as the gods bicker and bully and the mortals bleed