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Monty Python stars to stage reunion
Monty Python stars are to stage a major reunion for the first time in more than a decade to mark the show's 40th anniversary, it was announced today.
Nights of northern soul: Manchester's second international festival is an eclectic feast
From Rufus Wainwright's first opera to a play set in a bingo hall, Jonathan Brown selects the highlights
First Night: Prima Donna, Palace Theatre, Manchester (Rated 2/ 5 )
Charming performance fails to rescue flimsy plot
- The Hypochondriac, Playhouse, Liverpool (Rated 3/ 5 )
- Everybody Loves A Winner, Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester (Rated 3/ 5 )
- It Felt Like A Kiss, Hardman Square, Manchester (Rated 3/ 5 )
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FIVE BEST PLAYS
Waiting for Godot
(Theatre Royal Haymarket, London)
Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen’s wonderful take on Beckett’s classic combines old-world dignity and low vulgarity.
(0845 481 1870) to 9 Aug
War Horse
(New London Theatre, London)
Transfer of the National Theatre’s moving adaptation of Michael Morpurgo’s novel, about a farm horse sold to the cavalry and pitched into the thick of the battle in the First World War.
(020-7432 4220) to 12 Feb
Peter Pan
(Kensington Gardens, London)
JM Barrie’s 1904 masterpiece works magnificently in this marquee. The big-top feel is sensationally complemented by William Dudley’s wrap-around cinematic projections.
(0871 386 1122) to 30 Aug
A Doll’s House
(Donmar Warehouse, London)
A powerful revival by the young film-maker Kfir Yefet of Ibsen’s breakthrough play about a doomed marriage, starring the luminescent Gillian Anderson.
(0870 060 6624) to 18 Jul
Arcadia
(Duke of York’s Theatre, London)
David Leveaux’s poignant revival of Tom Stoppard’s dramatic confection of collisions in science, everyday life and societal movements.
(0870 060 6623) to 12 Sept