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It is clear from the start that this play – which runs straight through for eighty minutes – is potentially a drama about coming-out and sexual initiation, and indeed it becomes both of those things. But it is a tribute to the skill of the writing and the actors that it become…
Tim Hochstrasser
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Beautiful now playing at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre is the story of legendary singer/songwriter Carole King, a girl from Brooklyn with a dream.
Douglas Mayo
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Disney's Aladdin noiw playing at the New Amsterdam Theatre is one of Broadway's most successful productions
Douglas Mayo
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This reimagining of The Great Gatsby has to be commended for trying something very new and different. However, the musical innovations generally distracted f…
Danny Coleman-Cooke
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The book is laid out like a sorta-score. There is an Overture, large chapters which form 'the key changes of (Bricusse's) life' - from A Minor to G Undiminis…
Stephen Collins
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Crushed Shells and Mud starts well and features some wonderful performances. However, somewhere in the second half it unfortunately gets well and truly stuck.
Danny Coleman-Cooke
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The Thriller Live UK Tour continues whilst the Thriller West End production continues to shatter records. Book Now!
Douglas Mayo
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While there are more serious moments to be found in this play, especially focused on the opportunities for women in the new theatre of the 1660s, there is no…
Tim Hochstrasser
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All in all this is a revival very much deserving of support. You reward will be some genuinely fine ensemble acting and some neglected writing that you can e…
Tim Hochstrasser
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West End Heroes wisely avoided making the concert a remembrance festival; instead it was a celebration of the brilliant talent within both the military and t…
Danny Coleman-Cooke
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Lecesne has a winning charm and a cast-iron technique, so his spinning wheel presentation of a myriad of small town character types is absolutely engaging an…
Stephen Collins
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This is a genial, quietly satisfying set of reflections on how hard rural life can be and how mostly distant it has always been from any kind of Arcadian idy…
Tim Hochstrasser
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Stitching is an interesting and challenging play, undermined by a late twist, but still engaging. There are a number of moments which will take some people a…
Matthew Lunn
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Part Felicity Kendall, part Carol Channing, with just a soupçon of Jo Grant (The Doctor Who companion she first played about forty five years ago) and legs t…
Stephen Collins
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Valhalla is an intense and gripping production, which showed its class in very difficult circumstances. Whilst the ending could do with some work, it is clev…
Danny Coleman-Cooke
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It both shines a light on a corner of society which is misunderstood and unfairly vilified and, examines the rules, conventions, habits and language of a par…
Stephen Collins
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The Sweethearts is a truly fascinating play, and I am certain that Sarah Page has a very bright future as a playwright. The theme of heroism is particularly …
Matthew Lunn
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