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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: 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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REVIEW: Mimetic Festival 2014, Old Vic Vaults ✭✭✭✭
The breadth of programmed material was impressive: genuinely a case of something for everyone, from light, risqué cabaret, through puppetry and physical thea…
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Stephen Collins
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REVIEW: Cinderella And The Beanstalk, Theatre 503 ✭✭✭✭
It abounds with heart and wit, is propelled with boundless energy from the three inventive actors who devised the piece, is blessed with a surprising and cle…
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Stephen Collins
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REVIEW: Assassins, Menier Chocolate Factory ✭✭✭✭✭
What is most impressive about Lloyd's Assassins is the way it can walk the line between tragedy and farce, between opera and vaudeville, with integrity and p…
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Stephen Collins
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