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REVIEW: Newsies Movie Event ✭✭✭✭✭
This will be the first time that Disney has bought one of their live shows to the screen but they have done so in epic style and the result is absolutely exh…
Douglas Mayo
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REVIEW: Pink Mist, New Wolsey Theatre ✭✭✭✭
Catch this extraordinary production on its tour; it has a quiet anger that says more than a hundred plays that shout for your attention.
Paul T Davies
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REVIEW: School Play, Southwark Playhouse ✭✭✭✭
With its strong cast, impeccable design, timely subject matter and a solid script, School Play could easily become one of the surprise gems of 2017. Now is t…
Sophie Adnitt
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REVIEW: Dubailand, Finborough Theatre ✭✭✭
Dubailand offers a striking portrayal of the titular city, which does great credit to its writer. It is an enjoyable play, characterised by a good cast and a…
Matthew Lunn
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REVIEW: Crocodile, Vault Festival ✭✭✭
There are shadows here of ‘The Events’, as well as other absurdist and expressionist drama. I hope we hear more from Mr Eyre very soon.
Julian Eaves
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REVIEW: The HIV Monologues, Ace Hotel Shoreditch ✭✭✭✭✭
With the epic Angels in America at the National on the horizon, this feels like a perfect curtain raiser, where HIV characters are centre stage, a hilarious …
Paul T Davies
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REVIEW: Dear Evan Hansen, Original Broadway Cast Recording ✭✭✭✭✭
Dear Evan Hansen doesn't hide its heart and it's that honesty that has me thinking about a trip to Broadway to see this most remarkable new show. This is a s…
Douglas Mayo
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REVIEW: Greywing House, Vault Festival ✭✭✭
The choice of location assists the grim spectacle no end, with spaces melting away into the dank, shadowy recesses of the apparently never ending cellars ben…
Julian Eaves
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REVIEW: Henry V, Southwark Cathedral ✭✭✭✭✭
I think Shakespeare would certainly have approved and I couldn't help agreeing that - as a student of mine (who also happened to be there) gushed - “it was b…
Helena Payne
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Taylor Swift Becomes Focus Of Modern Day Version Of Genet's The Maids
Douglas Mayo
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