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The latest theatre news, West End reviews, show guides, and behind-the-scenes features from British Theatre's editorial team.
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REVIEW: Something Rotten, St James Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭
There is noting rotten here. Rather, Something Rotten is firm, juicy, fruity, perfectly cultivated, tart, sweet, and every segment, every layer that is peele…
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Stephen Collins
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REVIEW: Hamilton, The Public Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭
Directed by Thomas Kail, with astonishing choreography from Andy Blankenbuehler, Hamilton is a remarkable piece of theatrical alchemy; inspiring, packed with…
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Stephen Collins
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REVIEW: Wink, Theatre 503 ✭✭✭✭✭
An increasingly explicit and intimate dialogue with many moments of ingenious hilarity spirals quickly out of control before colliding with real life in a te…
Tim Hochstrasser
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REVIEW: Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Theatre Royal Drury Lane ✭✭✭✭
Sam Mendes' production of the musical adaptation of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is in excellent shape. Nothing indicates that more clearly than the sho…
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Stephen Collins
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REVIEW: Die Entführung aus dem Serail (The Abduction), Bloomsbury ✭✭✭✭✭
The discipline of stripping a work down to its basics and re-inventing it in numerous very different locations night after night recaptures the spirit of rep…
Tim Hochstrasser
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REVIEW: A Breakfast Of Eels, Print Room At The Coronet ✭✭✭✭
The text is like a huge tapestry - there are many elements sewn into it: moments of silence, of banality, of revelation, of humour, of intense longing, of po…
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Stephen Collins
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REVIEW: Trainspotting, King's Head Theatre ✭✭✭✭
With the audience sat and stood around three sides, the action regularly erupts off the stage, from projectile soiled sheets to splashes of murky toilet wate…
Mark Ludmon
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REVIEW: And Then There Were None, UK Tour ✭✭✭✭
It was fascinating to hear the animated discussion in the auditorium, in the intervals or scene breaks, about the identity of the murderer(s) (not to give an…
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Stephen Collins
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REVIEW: Return To The Forbidden Planet, UK Tour ✭✭✭
It is a jukebox full of lively hit after hit just some of which are Great Balls of Fire, Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood, Good Vibrations, Young Girl and She's…
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Stephen Collins
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REVIEW: Harvey, Theatre Royal Haymarket ✭
McIntosh's achievement with the set is world class, and the magical sense of the way the set changes works beautifully to mirror the magic of a world where t…
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Stephen Collins
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REVIEW: These Trees Were Made Of Blood, Southwark Playhouse ✭✭✭
The framework devised for the production is The Coup Coup Club (a clever play on the Kit Kat Club which instantly sets the groundwork for military dictators …
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Stephen Collins
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REVIEW: Calamity Jane, New Wimbledon Theatre ✭✭✭✭
This is a theatrical treat: a good, old fashioned musical done in a new fangled way. It's great to hear such good songs so well sung by a cast that basically…
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Stephen Collins
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