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Dreamgirls Cast Album Release Date Announced
Sonia Friedman Productions has confirmed the Dreamgirls Original London Cast Album will be released on Friday 12 May 201&. Pre-order now!
Douglas Mayo
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Out of Joint appoints new artistic director
Kate Wasserberg, the award-winning founder and artistic director of The Other Room in Cardiff, is to join Max Stafford-Clark and producer Martin Derbyshire t…
Mark Ludmon
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Moliere play to be staged in French and English
A production of Molière’s classic comedy, The Misanthrope – performed in English and French – is coming to London’s Drayton Arms Theatre.
Mark Ludmon
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REVIEW: 46 Beacon, Trafalgar Studios 2 ✭✭✭
There is little drama, and no dramatic stakes are raised, and for that reason it may struggle to be remembered in the lexicon of gay drama. However, that is …
Paul T Davies
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New London cast for Play That Goes Wrong
A new cast has been announced for the London production of The Play That Goes Wrong as it continues on its path to world domination.
Mark Ludmon
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1970s sitcom The Liver Birds inspires new musical
A new musical based on classic 1970s sitcom The Liver Birds is to be presented for one night only at The Epstein Theatre in Liverpool.
Mark Ludmon
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REVIEW: This Joint Is Jumpin', The Other Palace Studio ✭✭✭✭
Go for the music, and you'll have a ball.
Julian Eaves
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REVIEW: The Goat, Or Who Is Sylvia?, Theatre Royal Haymarket ✭✭✭
The Goat is a fascinating play by one of America’s greatest playwrights; a depiction of life utterly undone by an unforgivable transgression. Damian Lewis an…
Matthew Lunn
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REVIEW: Miss Nightingale, The Vaults ✭✭✭
Treading similar terrain as the recently seen 'Mrs Henderson Presents', it has an infectious score, well-written dialogue, and a story that revolves around m…
Julian Eaves
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REVIEW: Caste, Finborough Theatre ✭✭✭
This is a worthwhile exercise, it is well produced, well acted and well nigh bound to leave you thinking that, as far as the development of nineteenth centur…
Julian Eaves
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REVIEW: Posh, Pleasance Theatre ✭✭✭✭
Aside from the device of making it an all-female cast, this is a powerful, enjoyable production. It may lose some of the masculine menace of the original but…
Mark Ludmon
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REVIEW: Executioner Number One, Soho Theatre ✭✭✭✭
It touches on the brutality of the death penalty at a time when the number of executions is on the rise around the world but it is ultimately a sharply writt…
Mark Ludmon
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REVIEW: Tommy, New Wolsey Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭
We are going to have to find a new word for disabled, as this company rubs the President’s face in that word. This is a wonderful production- feel it, hear i…
Paul T Davies
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