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The actress, a Tony nominee for “The Skin of Our Teeth,” is bringing her sharp eye for comedy to Atlantic Theater Company’s production of “I’m Revolting.”

The updated musical version of the popular film challenges preconceived notions about the protagonist’s appearance. A take on “Oklahoma!” similarly offers a twist on a classic.

To my mind, Rodgers and Hammersteins musical has always suffered from a teeth-itching wholesomeness.

Rodgers and Hammerstein’s first musical is roughed up; dreamthinkspeak amble around Brighton; and a first for Amharic on the British stage?

PATRICK MARMION: The message is not to get too comfortable. The American Dream needs to be dug up, denounced and re-buried, as if at a McCarthyite show trial.

The house lights remain on throughout, with one or two sequences dimmed to reptile green or blacked out altogether. The western-style band sits at one end while the performers remain mainly on stage, shucking corn with erotic bravado or drinking beer from cans scattered around the tables. As the love triangle between cocky rodeo hero

Theater critic for WhatsOnStage Sarah Crompton calls the UK premiere of the Bard SummerScape production of Oklahoma! “a masterpiece” and “absolutely revelatory.” Directed by Daniel Fish, the Tony Award–winning revival of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Oklahoma! originated at Bard 15 years ago.

Rodgers and Hammerstein revival goes to the dark heart of the story. Theatre review by Helen Hawkins

Daniel Fish's Tony Award-winning production comes to the UK

First seen in New York, this revelatory production, now at the Young Vic, interrogates the landmark musical to within an inch of its life