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Robbie Williams - The Heavy Entertainment Tour 2017

REVIEW: Lazarus, Kings Cross Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭

What we have here is a clear successor to 'Mamma Mia', in that the show takes a seminal back-catalogue and lifts from it a mix of tracks to elaborate and dec…

Julian Eaves

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FIRST LOOK: School Of Rock, New London Theatre

REVIEW: The Wipers Times, New Wolsey Theatre Ipswich ✭✭✭

Falling far short of the biting satire of Oh What A Lovely War and Blackadder Goes Forth, the play is an effective tribute to an extraordinary publication, a…

Paul T Davies

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REVIEW: Side Show, Southwark Playhouse ✭✭✭✭✭

Hopefully, this will be the first of many productions of Side Show here in the UK, although I doubt any will match the talents involved here or the transcend…

Douglas Mayo

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Cirque Du Soleil Varekai UK Tour

Sheena Easton To Star In 42nd Street

REVIEW: Dead Funny, Vaudeville Theatre ✭✭✭✭

Johnson’s writing is complex and masterful, switching frequently and seamlessly between light and shade. The jokes hit the mark and are well timed, whilst ma…

Danny Coleman-Cooke

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Christina Bianco Celebrates Christmas At Charing Cross Theatre

The John Wilson Orchestra UK Tour

David Tennant To Star In Don Juan In Soho

Invincible UK Tour

Douglas Mayo

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REVIEW: Ordinary Days, Hen and Chickens Theatre ✭✭✭

Julian Eaves

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Saving Jason Premieres At Park Theatre

FIRST LOOK: The Last Five Years at St James Theatre

Tom Stoppard's Travesties Transfers To Apollo Theatre

Derren Brown Goes Underground At Charing Cross Theatre

Douglas Mayo

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REVIEW: Lunatic, TheatreN16 ✭

Regretfully, I have to note that I personally didn’t find any work of that quality in this particular offering.

Julian Eaves

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The Old Vic 2017 Season will feature Daniel Radcliffe

Douglas Mayo

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REVIEW: The Entertainer, Garrick Theatre ✭✭✭✭

The Entertainer’, a brilliantly performed play paralleling the breakdown of the British Empire and the decline of music hall, which concludes Kenneth Branagh…

Alexa Terry

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REVIEW: Fiona Jane Weston ... And West End Friends, Phoenix Artists Club

In miniature, a marvelous insight into the life and work of artists in musical theatre, with something a little bit different about it, drawing a nice crowd,…

Julian Eaves

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VIDEO: Dreamgirls in Rehearsals

Douglas Mayo

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REVIEW: Sweeney Todd, Mercury Theatre Colchester ✭✭✭✭✭

Residents of Colchester are lucky to have on their doorsteps a production that punches above its regional theatre weight, and lovers of the musical would do …

Paul T Davies

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Mel Brooks' Young Frankenstein To Open In West End

REVIEW: Skin A Cat, The Bunker ✭✭✭✭

There is a lot, in fact, in the writing - and delivery - that reminds one of the best female stand-up comedy, and the audience here seems to be very like the…

Julian Eaves

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REVIEW: The Hotel Cerise, Theatre Royal Stratford East ✭✭✭✭

This is a remarkable and magnificent work, rich in detail and meaning, and - as we approach another decisive moment in the US (and therefore also global) his…

Julian Eaves

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FIRST LOOK: The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide to Capitalism and Socialism at Hampstead Theatre

SHOW OF THE MONTH: The Bodyguard - Dominion Theatre - Save up to 53%

FIRST LOOK: Side Show at Southwark Playhouse

Damian Lewis Returns To the West End in Edward Albee Classic

Douglas Mayo

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After October Returns After Eighty Years

Further Casting Announced For Menier's She Loves Me

May and Ellis Cancel Christmas Concert Dates

Arthur Miller's The Crucible UK Tour

REVIEW: Ragtime, Charing Cross Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭

The show has been seen in London several times recently, and it is clearly a work that repays revisitation, and reinterpretation. I will certainly be back to…

Julian Eaves

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REVIEW: From Ibiza To The Norfolk Broads, Waterloo East Theatre ✭✭

Bowie was a fascinating figure, with aspects of his work and image that make for rich pickings when it comes to creating a show. Unfortunately what From Ibiz…

Sophie Adnitt

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REVIEW: Hotel For Criminals, New Wimbledon Studio ✭✭✭✭✭

That such a heavyweight should be having his work showcased by such a (still) small company in a fringe studio says a lot about him and a lot about the venue…

Julian Eaves

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REVIEW: Jess And Joe Forever, Lakeside Theatre ✭✭✭✭

Bravo Zoe Cooper, you have written a memorable play, one of the best this year, that deserves the widest audience possible!

Paul T Davies

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The Glass Menagerie Comes To The Duke Of York's Theatre

Following the success of Harry Potter And The Cursed Child - Parts One and Two, director John Tiffany returns to the West End with his internationally acclai…

Miss Saigon UK Tour

Douglas Mayo

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VIDEO: Alfie Boe and Michaell Ball Music Video Released

Douglas Mayo

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REVIEW: Moby Dick The Musical, Union Theatre ✭✭✭

Andrew Wright’s production does what it can to make us concentrate on the show’s many felicities. However, it may take more than bracing direction and livel…

Julian Eaves

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REVIEW: Wonderful Town, Ye Olde Rose and Crowne Pub Theatre ✭✭✭✭

This is very New York. A constant hurly-burly of influences and crossed paths, with the players packed into the smallest space possible

Julian Eaves

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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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