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REVIEW: City Of Angels, Donmar Warehouse ✭✭✭✭
City of Angels has an impeccable pedigree - a book by Larry Gelbart, lyrics by David Zippel and a rich, brassy score from Cy Coleman. It provides great scope…
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Stephen Collins
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REVIEW: Golem, Young Vic Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭
You could be forgiven for thinking this was a fairytale, so delicate, amusing, but full of truths, is Golem. If Tim Burton did a live-action adult pantomime,…
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Stephen Collins
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REVIEW: Into The Woods - The Movie. Released 9th January 2015
Anna Kendrick makes a marvellous Cinderella, a precise balance between fairytale character and real human. Her scenes with Blunt are wonderful and, for me an…
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Stephen Collins
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REVIEW: Les Miserables, Queens Theatre ✭✭✭✭
If you have never seen Les Miserables, this is a good year to see it; if you have seen it, this cast provides fresh approaches and interesting nuance to scen…
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Stephen Collins
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Cats: Thoughts From A Long Time Fan
This production of Cats, certainly inspired some heated conversations over the weekend, but what it also revived in me was my love of the show itself and it’…
Douglas Mayo
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REVIEW: Sikes And Nancy, Trafalgar Studios 2 ✭✭✭
Without doubt, Swanton has one of the most impressive and mellifluous voices of anyone under the age of 40 who has set foot on a London stage in recent years…
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Stephen Collins
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REVIEW: Miss Havisham's Expectations, Trafalgar Studios 2 ✭✭✭✭
Marlowe is that very rare creature - a true virtuoso. Sherlock's material is made for her and she gorges on it, finding every nuance, every temptation of int…
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Stephen Collins
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REVIEW: Cats, London Palladium ✭✭✭✭
The very best aspect of this production is the power, energy and sheer musicality Graham Hurman brings to the score. The orchestra is sizzling, sparking musi…
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Stephen Collins
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REVIEW: 3 Winters, Lyttleton Theatre ✭✭✭
There is a marvellous scene towards the end of Act One where Walker and Gulliford share the couch, both wanting to be there but both not knowing how to negot…
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Stephen Collins
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REVIEW: Hope, Jerwood Theatre Downstairs ✭✭
This is a play more polemic than personal. None of the lead characters have any warmth, at least as played here, so there is real difficulty in engaging with…
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Stephen Collins
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REVIEW: Noël Coward's Christmas Spirits, St James Studio ✭✭✭
Hutchinson has produced an unusual Christmas confection: part song, part recitation, part reminiscence and part cheeky indulgence. Using material ranging fro…
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Stephen Collins
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