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Dominic Cavendish

Dominic Cavendish

Theatre Critic at The Daily Telegraph - Telegraph.co.uk

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Out West, Lyric Hammersmith, review: Gandhi, bigotry and an Obama encounter gone wrong

Three excellent monologues reopen the west London theatre with smartly-written, energetic approaches to the local area
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Romeo & Juliet, Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, review: more crosse...

Isabel Adomakoh Young is an exuberant Juliet, but elsewhere the triumphs are fitful in this uncertain, overly stark production
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The theatre industry is right to go for legal action – it has no ot...

Taking the Government to court is a last resort for a weary sector, but perhaps the only way for the pilot event data to finally be revealed
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Under Milk Wood, National Theatre, review: Michael Sheen glows in D...

This stage version of the great Welsh ‘play for voices’ is a sensuous portrayal of care-home residents being swept up in memories
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First look: Ian McKellen’s ‘age-blind’ Hamlet is remarkably compelling

The 82-year-old is the oldest Prince of Denmark this country has seen – but when his Hamlet springs to revenge, the years slip away
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Happy Days, Riverside Studios, review: an excellent evening of Beck...

Lisa Dwan, a formidable interpreter of Beckett’s work, has the audience spellbound in this 60th-anniversary production
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Copenhagen, Theatre Royal Bath, review: Nazis, atomic physics and a...

The return of Michael Frayn’s 1998 modern classic is always welcome, and even if the approach isn’t new, the three-hander plays out tautly

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Nightmare in the West End, the sequel: ‘If restrictions remain into...

The government’s four-week delay to Step Four is ‘devastating and disappointing’, say leading producers and theatre-owners
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After Life, National Theatre, review: a haunting but too-short medi...

The return of the NT is a cause for celebration, even if Jack Thorne’s adaptation of Kirokazu Kore-eda’s film isn’t as rich as hoped
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Andrew Lloyd Webber: ‘You’ll have to arrest us to stop us reopening...

Composer pledges to defy Government and open ‘come hell or high water’ if lockdown restrictions are not lifted as planned on June 21
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Samuel Beckett’s secret wedding in Folkestone – posing as ‘Mr Barclay’

Fresh monologues by leading actors revive the strange episode in 1961 when the Nobel Laureate came to Kent to marry his mistress in secret
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The Death of a Black Man, Hampstead Theatre, review: less a drama t...

This deserved revival of Alfred Fagon’s pioneering play shows his remarkable way with words, but the characterisation is too flimsy
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Amélie: The Musical, Criterion Theatre, review: the romance of Pari...

The plot is too complex and the accents are dippy, but it’s hard not to enjoy this stage version of the widely-loved 2001 romcom
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Four Quartets, Theatre Royal Bath, review: Ralph Fiennes illuminate...

This one-man performance of the great 20th-century poet’s most inscrutable work makes for a magnetic piece of live theatre
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No Sex Please, We’re British: the West End hit that became theatre’...

Political correctness has unfairly consigned this innuendo-packed farce to obscurity. Is there a director brave enough to bring it back?
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Sixties permissiveness created a culture open to abuse at drama sch...

The Telegraph’s investigation into student ‘mistreatment’ at some UK drama schools suggests the problem has deep roots
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Walden, Harold Pinter, review: the West End takes a giant leap as t...

Gemma Arterton stars in this fresh and ambitious new play, the first work at the Harold Pinter Theatre in more than a year
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Equity’s modish ideological zeal spells bad news for the arts

The acting union’s stance on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict proves it has lost the plot
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Best comedy, theatre shows and dance performances to watch in 2021

Our critics choose this summer’s must-see stage shows, from Singin’ in the Rain at Sadler’s Wells, to Andrew Lloyd Webber’s new musical
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Britain’s theatres are at the mercy of Covid test-and-trace zealotry

Just as culture-lovers thought it was safe to return, draconian rules forced a whole production to close down on an absurd pretext
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Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, Apollo Theatre, review: a fabulous...

The 1,000th performance of the coming-out musical was a lively, cathartic affair that swept our critic’s reservations away