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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: Damn Yankees, Landor Theatre ✭✭✭
Like the Union Theatre, the Landor continues to bring new or largely overlooked musicals to London as well as encouraging and developing the skills of freshl…
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Stephen Collins
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REVIEW: Taken At Midnight, Minerva Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭
This is a terrific piece of new writing; spare, engaging, brimming with interest and history. It does what all great plays about actual historical events do:…
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Stephen Collins
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REVIEW: Altar Boyz, Greenwich Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭
This is high octane entertainment, a 90 minute rollercoaster of silliness with heart, amazing talent and enough boy-band clichés to put Take That, Westlife a…
Douglas Mayo
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REVIEW: Love Story, Union Theatre ✭✭✭
Victoria Sierra as Jenny Cavilleri and David Albury as Oliver Barratt IV, as the young student couple share the warmth and passion of youth, determined to ma…
Douglas Mayo
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REVIEW: Teh Internet Is Serious Business, Royal Court ✭✭
Many of the actors are very good, but it is not that easy to identify them. Unusually for the Royal Court, no text of the script (complete with full biograph…
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Stephen Collins
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REVIEW: Evita, Dominion Theatre ✭
For my part, it is the worst production of a musical I have ever seen on a West End stage. It makes one pine for Too Close Too The Sun.
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Stephen Collins
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REVIEW: Ballyturk, National Theatre ✭✭✭✭
This is a wild, original and unexpected evening of theatrical extremism. You do not need to be able to work out what Walsh’s point is to have a wonderful tim…
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Stephen Collins
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REVIEW: As You Like It, Southwark Playhouse ✭✭✭
So, it’s a review of two halves for 'As You Like It' - a play that pendulums from bland to bold and bleak to bright - but is absolutely worth seeing, for, if…
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Emily Hardy
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REVIEW: The Wolf From The Door, Royal Court Jerwood Theatre ✭✭✭✭
It’s an evocative, alarming and thought-provoking piece of political theatre. Wild, bizarre, absurd and delightful - well worth seeing.
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Stephen Collins
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