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The Meat Loaf musical has arrived, groaning with hits, loud amplification and even louder costumes. It’s served on the flimsiest platter, as a trapped heroine pines for a lusty youth from the wrong side of the tracks. London Coliseum, WC2 (020 7845 9300), until Aug 22

Death of a Salesman

As Willy Loman, Nicholas Woodeson is quite the best thing about this touring revival of Arthur Miller’s enduring portrait of a benighted, ageing American male, eyes shrivelling shut as he retreats into himself and the past, flailing out in bursts of defiant anger.

King’s Theatre, Edinburgh (0131 529 6000), tonight; Hall for Cornwall, Truro (01872 262466), Tues-Sat