Susannah Clapp's best theatre of 2021

Little Amal stirred hearts, Chaucer hit Willesden, Cush Jumbo was a perfect prince, and once again James Graham said it all Read the Observer critics' review of 2021 in full here It was a year of promises and postponements, of dodgy mask-wearing in the stalls - and of sudden soarings. It was no surprise that Rebecca Frecknall's spectacular production of Cabaret, with Jessie Buckley and Eddie Redmayne, should prove one of the big excitements of the year - and one of the most expensive. But who in...