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REVIEW: Dirty Great Love Story, Arts Theatre ✭✭✭✭
Dirty Great Love Story’ is sweet-natured and is told so inventively, making it no surprise that it has had the success it has
Alexa Terry
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REVIEW: Thoroughly Modern Millie, Milton Keynes Theatre ✭✭
It's the first time, in a long time that I wish I hadn't bothered.
Douglas Mayo
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REVIEW: Buddy - The Buddy Holly Story, New Wimbledon Theatre ✭✭✭✭
Buddy's music is beautifully performed by this cast and the Clear Lake Concert at the end of the evening was stunning with the audience on their feet through…
Douglas Mayo
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REVIEW: Death Takes A Holiday, Charing Cross Theatre ✭✭✭✭
Maury Yeston's magnificent score for Death Takes A Holiday - one of the finest in London right now - is a glory not to be missed in this European premiere of…
Julian Eaves
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REVIEW: The Doppel Gang, Tristan Bates Theatre ✭✭
The young cast is energetic, lively and likeable: it would be great to see them with a more developed script, a tighter production and a script with as much …
Julian Eaves
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REVIEW: Bounder and Cad, The Pheasantry - Jan 2017 ✭✭✭
It's always a pleasure to discover talented new writers (Bounder and Cad), and these two are great fun.
Julian Eaves
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REVIEW: Gazing At A Distant Star, Greenwich Theatre ✭✭✭✭
In a world where all our whims and activities are trackable on social media, the need to disappear has never been stronger. Missing people is an increasingly…
Helena Payne
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REVIEW: Blood Brothers 2017, New Victoria Theatre Woking (On Tour) ✭✭✭✭
Every member of the audience stood at the end, and that's because this is a show with no fancy heirs or graces that captures your heart.
Douglas Mayo
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REVIEW: Promises Promises, Southwark Playhouse ✭✭✭✭
this is the ‘must-see’ show of the moment, with a glamorous audience hurrying to get in on the fun. And, yes, ultimately it keeps its promises. All of them.
Julian Eaves
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REVIEW: Keeping On Keeping On by Alan Bennett, Faber and Faber ✭✭✭✭
“If I was to stab Judi Dench with a pitchfork, I should still be regarded as a cuddly teddy bear”, says Alan Bennett of his ‘national treasure’ status.
Paul T Davies
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REVIEW: Raising Martha, Park Theatre ✭✭
That sound that you hear in the production is not frogs croaking. It’s the ghost of Joe Orton tutting with boredom that, in fifty years, his anarchic comedy …
Paul T Davies
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REVIEW: Half A Sixpence 2016 London Cast Recording, First Night Records ✭✭✭✭
Live theatre lovers are probably going to hate me for this one, but I have to say that I actually enjoyed the Half A Sixpence recording more than I enjoyed t…
Douglas Mayo
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