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The Independent

Larry Ryan: See 'Imagine This' for free tonight (maybe)
Imagine This is a musical which recently opened at the New London Theatre. The show is a big schmaltzy West End affair that happens to be set in the Warsaw ghetto in 1942. ...

Observations: Our friends up the Amazon
The Young Vic's Amazonia is more than a Christmas show. It is a journey that has taken place over several years and across two continents. In 2006, the theatre's artistic director, David Lan, made his first trip to Brazil with theatre...

The Times UK

How theatre offered McCraney a lifeline
Raised unloved in poverty, Tarell McCraney has channelled a toxic childhood into riveting theatre, says Lucy Powell

The Guardian

One million tiny plays about Britain
Craig Taylor's snapshots of life in the UK continue with two people in a bookshop in Lancaster ...

Bankers are new pantomime villains. Oh, yes they are
As the financial system teeters, writers and comedians are finding inspiration from the gloomiest of headlines

Discover your inner fairy godmother
It isn't men who are Cinderella's problem, but the women in her life holding her back, argues psychotherapist Adam Phillips

Pick of the week: Theatre
Central: The Brothers Size Carthage Must Be Destroyed Beauty And The Beast One Night In November Arabian Nights

Pick of the week: Theatre
London: Gethsemane La Cage Aux Folles The Norman Conquests Blowing Whistles Wig Out!

Pick of the week: Theatre
Scotland and Ireland: Spectacular Otter Pie West Side Story Nobody Will Ever Forgive Us The Consequences Of Lightning

Pick of the week: Theatre
North: The Brothers Size Ladies Down Under Blackmarket For Useful Knowledge And Non-Knowledge Death Of A Salesman A Taste Of Honey

Pick of the week: Theatre
South: On The Scent/Just To(o) Long(?) Carthage Must Be Destroyed Spectacular The Merchant of Venice

Theatre preview: The Merchant Of Venice, Poole
Lighthouse, Wed 3 to Dec 6

Theatre preview: On the Scent/Just To(o) Long(?), Folkestone, Ramsgate
Secret locations

Theatre preview: Carthage Must Be Destroyed, Bath
Ustinov Studio, Theatre Royal, Sat 29 to Dec 20

Theatre preview: The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe, Edinburgh

Theatre preview: Maria Friedman: Re-Arranged, London
Trafalgar Studios, SW1, to Jan 4Royal Lyceum Theatre, to Jan 3

The Ballad of Crazy Paola, Arcola, London
There are dozens of sizzling new plays deserving of a revival, but this isn't one of them

All the world
Review: Apprenticeship by Peter Gill
A playwright's rigorous reflections on a life in the theatre impress David Hare

Daily Telegraph

Clunky, with a glimmer of hope
Charles Spencer reviews Neil LaBute's In a Dark Dark House at the Almeida Theatre