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The Times UK

A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Big Top, Victoria Park
There is evidence here of strong kabuki and commedia dell’arte influences, but little poetry or tenderness

The Guardian

State of Emergency, Gate, London
Lyn Gardner on a powerful study of the way affluence can imprison people

I Caught Crabs in Walberswick, Bush, London
Joel Horwood's play pungently captures the edgy excitements and disappointments of youth, says Michael Billington

Council Depot Blues, Royal Court, Liverpool
Alfred Hickling enjoys a spirited piece about the gallows humour and grim fatalism that keep a council refuse team together

The Stage UK

Mark Shenton: A Broadway first night triumph…
London critics are used to being part of the event of a first night, but it creates an unusual tension: we’re there to work and to judge, and the rest of the usually invited audience of friends and investors...

Whatsonstage.com

News: Whoopi Goldberg Backs Sister Act's UK Premiere
Hollywood star Whoopi Goldberg (pictured), who starred in the original 1992 screen version of Sister Act, has signed up to co-produce the new stage musical adaptation which, as previously reported (See News::E8821226076376, 7 Nov 2008), will re...