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Last full update: 7th February: Latest update on 8th February

Reviews
* Plan D (Tristan Bates)
* A Raisin in the Sun (Manchester)
* My Wonderful Day (Bath & touring)
* Fatal Encounter (Guildford & touring)
* Traces (Edinburgh & touring)
* Breathing Irregular (Gate, Notting Hill)
* My Stories Your Emails (Barbican Pit)
* Mummies and Daddies (White Bear)
* Really Old, Like Forty Five (RNT Cottesloe)
* Hedda (Riverside Studios)
* Stage Fright (Canal Cafe)
* Medea (Oxford & touring)
* Told By the Wind (Cardiff & touring)
* The Machine Gunners (South Shields)
* Richard III (Riverside Studios)
* My Boy Jack (Baron's Court)
* Those Magnificent Men (Newbury & touring)
* A Midsummer Night's Dream (Bolton)
* The Furies/Land of the Dead/Helter Skelter (Bath & touring)
* Pub Rock (Lyric, Hammersmith)

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Last Week
For faster access, we've gathered together links to all last week's reviews and news stories on the one page.

Royal Court Goes Local
Theatre Local: the Royal Court is to present a season in the Elephant and Castle Shopping Centre.
The Penultimate Sustain Awards
Arts Council England has announced a further round of awards from the Sustain fund.

6 Musicals - 3 Weeks - 1 Theatre
Six new musicals presented by White Rose Theatre at the Pleasance Theatre, Islington.

BNP Play at the Finborough
The Finborough Theatre is to present A Day at the Racists, a new play about the rise of the British National Party.

Chess to Tour
A "definitive" version of the musical Chess is to tour later this year.
Spamalot Tour Is On
The Ambassador Theatre Group is to produce a national tour of Monty Python's Spamalot.
The Stage Readers' Top 20
The Stage announces the results of its poll to find its readers' Top 20 most important people in British theatre in 2009.
Ian Carmichael (1920 - 2010)
Actor Ian Carmichael has died at the age of 89.
Coming Soon
Announced this week: Once Upon a Time at the Adelphi gets its London premiere in March; Decade returns to Theatre503 later this month; Unity's all-male Pirates to transfer to Wilton's Music Hall in April.
Extending
Wicked and The Lion King extend again.

Casting
Casting updates this week: full casting for Polly Findlay’s Eigengrau at the Bush in March and for Shared Experience's production of Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie.

Midlands News
This week: ACE gives £1m to sustain Curve; BSC to produce Shakespeare comedy for Abu Dhabi festival; old actors show they're forever young; Posh Spice wig remark leads to clinging new play; what's on in the region.

North West News
This week: Blood Brothers for the big screen? Glengarry cast announced; what's on in the region.

North East News
This week: Northern Stage announces new co-production; what's on in the region.

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Every week London editor Philip Fisher selects the top five plays in London.
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Enron (Noël Coward)
Avenue Q (Gielgud)
Billy Elliot (Victoria Palace)

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The Habit of Art (RNT Lyttelton)
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Novello)
The Power of Yes (RNT Lyttelton)
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