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Trainspotting Live can’t boast the strongest plot line and doesn’t flesh out its characters quite enough to make this a five star show. But it will certainly give an assault on the senses that is hard to match and an experience that you will never forget.
Danny Coleman-Cooke
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Perhaps one of the best elements of this highly successful show at the West Yorkshire Playhouse is the fact that The Damned United is a local story, provokin…
Douglas Mayo
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Jenny Eclair, Dillie Keane and Lizzie Roper are back as the Grumpy Old Women UK Tour is back on the road in 2018.
Douglas Mayo
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The epic story of Marc Bolan and his band T Rex are brought to the stage in the 20th Century Boy UK Tour.
Douglas Mayo
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Despite being in two parts over something like seven hours, Stephen Daldry’s tight direction of The Inheritance means it never drags, drawing you into these …
Mark Ludmon
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Douglas Mayo
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Surprisingly funny at times, Kiss Of The Spider Woman at the Menier Chocolate Factory has plenty of touching moments without becoming sentimental.
Mark Ludmon
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Michael Ball, Alexandra Burke, Murray Head, Tim Howar and Cassidy Janson are to star in Chess at the London Coliseum.
Douglas Mayo
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The auditorium was virtually empty when I attended, and it is quite plain that they are struggling to find an audience for this dry and lifeless text.
Julian Eaves
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Nina Raine's Rabbit presented by Protocol Is a play of much verbal jousting, with brilliantly timed direction from Robbie Taylor Hunt and a top draw cast.
Paul T Davies
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This new cast album is of such a high standard that there will doubtless be many new productions of Working around the globe as a result of this recording. I…
Douglas Mayo
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Not only did I leave the Pleasance with a smile on my face, but Assassins also sent me into a tailspin of historical research when I got home, as I yearned t…
Danny Coleman-Cooke
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Julian Eaves reviews Soldier On at the Playground Theatre.
Julian Eaves
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Paul T Davies reviews Sean O'Casey's classic play The Plough And The Stars which is now playing at the Lyric Theatre Hammersmith.
Paul T Davies
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Francis Turnly’s beautifully structured, powerful play The Great Wave is made even more poignant and horrific based on that factual history.
Douglas Mayo
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Mark Ludmon reviews Patrick Marmion's adaptation of Will Self's novel Great Apes at Arcola Theatre
Mark Ludmon
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Tori Scott, began as she meant to go on. And go on she did! No prisoners were taken in her relentless display of charisma, strength, beauty of voice and ex…
Julian Eaves
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