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Touring production will pull in fans of the book, but needs to find something more to say if it is to convert those new to the story. See what our critic thought of the production.

Bold Anglo-Japanese production fizzles out when it needs to take off like a rocket writes BWW's critic.

Euripides in W6? A distressingly close fit.

John Lithgow impresses as Roald Dahl in an unconvincing drama that is unlikely to change many minds

New play packs plenty of ethical questions into an engaging and fascinating production that offers much to think about on the way home

Icarus Theatre show how new tech can tell old tales

Hard going with characters largely bereft of sympathetic virtues, delivering dialogue long on ideas, but short on heart

Mozart, music and mayhem in a tale of an outfoxed aristocrat brought down to earth

A NASA press conference goes off the rails as the probe, and the probing, goes awry

With Far Right terrorism and toxic masculinity defacing the summer, this 2015 play's UK premiere could no be more timely

Katherine Hoar's debut play makes a seamless and well-deserved transition to a major West End venue to challenge and intrigue a public who have enjoyed Oppenheimer at the cinema

Five actors + 80 years + a soupçon of French ennui = an evening that will spark many a conversation

This heartfelt show would benefit from a tighter focus and a harder edge

New musical runs into familiar structural issues but has strong singing and pleasing songs

Matthew Bourne brings sensational dance routines to the stage, adding a cherry to the cake of one of the greatest scores in musical theatre history

Opera Holland Park delivers two short pieces - an ideal introduction to the form's unique capacity to bring emotional weight to any story

The struggle to establish women's football in the UK told through the eyes of those who defied the establishment to play in a world cup in Mexico

Luke Fields and Emyr Strudwick take honours with plays set in Northern Ireland and South Wales

A show that could go very wrong gets everything right

Emma Riches and Lisa Minichiello give committed performances, but the play is short on the narrative drive required to carry its issues