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REVIEW: Musical Of The Year, Lost Theatre ✭✭✭✭

This is the funniest show of its kind since 'Forbidden Broadway'.

Julian Eaves

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Sir Cameron Mackintosh Gets Impromptu Birthday Surprise

REVIEW: Somewhere in England, New Wimbledon Studio ✭✭✭✭

This is the most important and exciting rediscovery of a ‘lost’ British musical since the 1982 King’s Head Theatre revival of Vivian Ellis’s ‘Mr Cinders’

Julian Eaves

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REVIEW: Ulysses' Homecoming, Hackney Empire ✭✭✭✭

This is an entertaining and skillfully staged production of one of Monteverdi’s most popular operas. Make sure you go and see it at a theatre near you; you’r…

Danny Coleman-Cooke

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REVIEW: The Dresser, Duke Of York's Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭

Sean Foley’s production of The Dresser is simply extraordinary. Ken Stott and Reece Shearsmith are outstanding as ‘Sir’ and Norman, whilst the supporting cas…

Matthew Lunn

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REVIEW: The Book Club, King's Head Theatre ✭✭✭

If I had been wearing a hat, I would have taken it off to Amanda Muggleton. Although I didn’t find the character to be particularly likeable, Muggleton’s ext…

Alexa Terry

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REVIEW: One Night In Miami, Donmar Warehouse ✭✭✭✭

These are men dancing on the edge of their own history, and the fact that we know their histories, (two of them killed by violence), makes the play highly po…

Paul T Davies

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Dreamboats and Petticoats UK Tour

Douglas Mayo

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London Production Of Hamilton To Hold Open Auditions

REVIEW: Jekyll & Hyde and Nerve (Double Bill), Greenwich Theatre ✭✭✭

Brilliantly well-written dialogue is always great to hear, especially when delivered with cut-glass panache as by this super quartet: in addition to the auth…

Julian Eaves

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The Wanted's Tom Parker To Star As Danny Zuko In Grease UK Tour

REVIEW: Code 2021: Autumn Secret Theatre Project, Bethnal Green ✭

It was a HUGE relief when it was all over. Not least for the accused, perhaps, who - like the rest of the cast - had had the almost impossible task of puttin…

Julian Eaves

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FLASH SALE: The Libertine with Dominic Cooper - Save up to 40%

FIRST LOOK: Ragtime, Charing Cross Theatre

Top 100 Greatest Musicals Results: 60 - 51

Douglas Mayo

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Dirty Dancing Returns To The West End This December

Phantom Celebrates 30 Years in Style

Douglas Mayo

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Celebrate Phantom's 30th Anniversary Tonight Live On Facebook

Hampstead's Wild Honey - Casting Announced

Frances Ruffelle To Star in The Wild Party At The Other Palace

Fellini's La Strada UK Tour

Douglas Mayo

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REVIEW: The Autumn Garden, Jermyn Street Theatre ✭✭✭✭

Despite this, there are quality performances on offer and an intriguing plot. The gradual descent of Nick from hero to scoundrel in Constance’s estimations i…

Sophie Adnitt

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REVIEW: Much Ado About Nothing, Mercury Theatre Colchester ✭✭

The Only Way is Shakespeare? Staged in contemporary Essex in a garrison town, (not very subtly hinting that it takes place in Colchester), this production ma…

Paul T Davies

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REVIEW: As You Like It, St Martins Church, Colchester ✭✭✭✭

Nicely abridged, with the tiresome Touchstone being eliminated, this is a very entertaining production.

Paul T Davies

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REVIEW: Murder Ballad, Arts Theatre ✭✭✭✭

for me, ‘Murder Ballad’ is all about the exciting score which doesn’t depend on the screaming tenor, but on the sultry bass and an amalgamation of sexed up j…

Alexa Terry

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REVIEW: Confessional, Southwark Playhouse ✭✭✭

Silver takes Williams' American milieu and shifts it deftly - without changing a single word of the text - into the seedy, East-End-by-the-seaside, down-at-h…

Julian Eaves

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REVIEW: Getting Better Slowly, New Diorama Theatre ✭✭✭✭

Overall, Getting Better Slowly’s main strengths lie in its performers and the sheer amount of heart in its story. It takes place in a small world, but ultima…

Sophie Adnitt

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REVIEW: Mr Popper's Penguins, Tunbridge Wells Assembly Rooms (UK Tour) ✭✭✭

So, should one see this show? In my book, even if only for the closing minutes, then most definitely. Bateman and Hughes are major new talents and this is …

Julian Eaves

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REVIEW: The Boys In The Band, Park Theatre ✭✭✭✭

All credit to director Adam Penford and the terrific cast for restoring the play back to the canon, and, in the intimacy of the Park Theatre, it now looks li…

Paul T Davies

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Thriller Live - West End Extension, New UK Tour and China Opening!

Thriller Live continues to entertain people worldwide and producers have announced that the show will now extend its run in London's West End, will undertake…

Rufus Sewell Leads Revival Of Art At The Old Vic

The Old Vis has announced that Tim Key (Winer 2009 Edinburgh Comedy Award), Paul Ritter ( The Audience, The Norman Conquests) and Rufus Sewell ( Closer, ITV'…

Shane Richie To Star As Roy Grace in Not Dead Enough Tour

Producers have announced that Shane Richie will play the role of Roy Grace in the world stage premiere of Peter James' play Not Dead Enough for the first par…

White Bear Theatre Re-Opens with Bright Lucifer

Following a £1.3 million redevelopment, The White Bear Theatre has recently re-opened. It's first production Brice Stratford's professional world premiere pr…

REVIEW: All Aboard, Electric Theatre Guildford ✭✭✭✭✭

And the company, all giving their energies for a song and dance, make this the wonder it is: a rollicking night out, and also a landmark in the development o…

Julian Eaves

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FIRST LOOK: Moby Dick Rehearsals at the Union Theatre

Douglas Mayo

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FIRST LOOK: Cinderella at the London Palladium - Character Portraits

REVIEW: Adding Machine, Finborough Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭

Musically, this is a serious work, that demands a lot of its listeners; but it repays handsomely in its dramatic and aesthetic effects.

Julian Eaves

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REVIEW: Girls, Soho Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭

Girls is confrontational without becoming prosecutorial, heartfelt without becoming unbelievable. With powerful writing and equally strong performances, Girl…

Sophie Adnitt

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REVIEW: The Libertine, Haymarket Theatre ✭✭✭

The Libertine is an enjoyable, but rather unfulfilling play. The Earl of Rochester is an intriguing figure, and Dominic Cooper’s is a witty and energetic por…

Matthew Lunn

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What's New In October - Editor's Pick

Douglas Mayo

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Bowie Homage Comes To Waterloo East

Adrian Berry's From Ibiza To The Norfolk Broads comes to the Waterloo East Theatre in October 2016. This celebration and homage to one of the greatest musica…

Rafe Spall Joins Cast Of National's Hedda Gabler

Rafe Spall joins Ruth Wilson in Ivo Van Hove's new production of Ibsen's Hedda Gabler at the National Theatre. Book Now.

Jest End Returns To Waterloo East

The hit comedy musical show exploring and 'exposing' the hits, flops and gossip of Theatreland, returns to Waterloo East Theatre after its sell-out season in…

Jersey Boys London To Close 26 March 2017

After nine amazing years in London, producers have announced that Jersey Boys will close at the Piccadilly Theatre on Sunday 26 March 2017. They have also a…

Douglas Mayo

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Top 100 Greatest Musicals Results: 70 – 61

Douglas Mayo

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FLASH SALE: Peter Pan Goes Wrong at Apollo Theatre Save up to 52%

Douglas Mayo

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The Legend Of Gog Comes To The Lion And Unicorn

Douglas Mayo

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New Psychological Thriller Based on Stoker's Dracula Comes To Theatre N16

Tonight With Donny Stixx Comes To The Bunker