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George Bernard Shaws 1914 play Pygmalion was the inspiration for the beloved musical My Fair Lady. But this revival at the Old Vic may leave fans of the film choking on their cucumber sandwiches.

Despite stellar casting of Patsy Ferran as Eliza Doolittle and Bertie Carvel as Professor Higgins, Richard Jones farcical revival fails to find the…

The late-summer heatwaves are barely done but Christmas has arrived already at the Old Vic with this Pygmalion played at pantomime pitch. True, the bittersweet final third of Richard Jones’s characteristically capering production finds some of the grace and sting excluded from the preceding hour-plus.

Bertie Carvel and Patsy Ferran lead this new revival

This Shaw revival has wonderful moments but there is little spark between Eliza Doolittle and Henry Higgins

Bertie Carvel’s strange performance as linguistics professor Henry Higgins makes the George Bernard Shaw play feel even crueller than it already is

As he stars in Pygmalion – and returns to The Crown as Tony Blair – Carvel considers the 'red lines' that now put certain roles off limits

From outdoor festivals and big-screen spectaculars to binge-watches and thumb-twiddlers, all the TV, theatre, film, art, games, music and more you need to get through to Christmas

Jonny Lee Miller and Tanya Reynolds star in two hours of uneasy blurring of the boundaries between truth and fiction

From Andrew Scott’s one-man Chekhov to Derren Brown’s latest spectacle, it’s a busy month for theatre