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REVIEW: Carmen Disruption, Almeida Theatre ✭✭✭✭
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REVIEW: Carmen Disruption, Almeida Theatre ✭✭✭✭

At just over 90 minutes, this is a theatrical spectacle and tapestry as ethereal and vital as it is strange and incomprehensible. Simon Stephens throws those elements such as the destruction of community, the isolation of individuals, the globalisation and sterilisation of cul…

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Stephen Collins

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REVIEW: Fun Home, Circle In The Square ✭✭✭✭

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REVIEW: Fun Home, Circle In The Square ✭✭✭✭

Universality is the key to the success of Fun Home. Fundamentally, it is about family and the undisclosed natures and secrets of those who are our family. Ch…

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Stephen Collins

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REVIEW: Animals, Theatre 503 ✭✭✭

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REVIEW: Animals, Theatre 503 ✭✭✭

With the recent news that the Florida and Wisconsin state governments have banned employees of their state level environmental protection agencies from using…

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REVIEW: The Glass Protégé, Park 90 ✭✭

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REVIEW: The Glass Protégé, Park 90 ✭✭

Alexander Hulme is intriguing and charismatic as Jackson and you see a glimpse of what a tortured beauty trapped in another man's world can suffer. David R B…

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Stephen Collins

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REVIEW: Gypsy, Savoy Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭✭

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REVIEW: Gypsy, Savoy Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭✭

Everyone in this company is superb in their part, everyone can really sing, really dance and really deliver the goods in terms of dramatic and comic acting. …

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Stephen Collins

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REVIEW: Rumpy Pumpy, Landor Theatre ✭

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REVIEW: Rumpy Pumpy, Landor Theatre ✭

Some of Mackie's tunes are pleasant and catchy - the music is easily the superior component in the work. But it is held back, both by poor lyrics and, genera…

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Stephen Collins

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REVIEW: Two, Above The Arts ✭✭✭✭

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REVIEW: Two, Above The Arts ✭✭✭✭

Ultimately, TWO is a very fine night out at the theatre that zips through its eighty-minute length in no time, leaving you full of admiration at such detaile…

Tim Hochstrasser

Tim Hochstrasser

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REVIEW: The Visit, Lyceum Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭

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REVIEW: The Visit, Lyceum Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭

For 90 minutes of ecstatic storytelling, you are transported to a place where love, death and consequence are dancing together and where a victory for true l…

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Stephen Collins

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REVIEW: Living On Love, Longacre Theatre ✭

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REVIEW: Living On Love, Longacre Theatre ✭

Renée Fleming is an accomplished operatic soprano with a voice of ravishing beauty and the capacity to move opera audiences to extremes of emotion by her ext…

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Stephen Collins

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REVIEW: Apartment 40C, St James Studio ✭✭✭

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REVIEW: Apartment 40C, St James Studio ✭✭✭

The last three songs ‘Pocket Park’, Time’, and ‘A Child’ are very fine, demonstrate what this creative team are capable of at their best, and vindicate the f…

Tim Hochstrasser

Tim Hochstrasser

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REVIEW: Fish In The Dark, Cort Theatre ✭✭✭

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REVIEW: Fish In The Dark, Cort Theatre ✭✭✭

There is nothing ground-breaking here. But what there is is a great deal of cleverness, wordplay and daft, idiosyncratic physical comedy involving stock, arc…

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Stephen Collins

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REVIEW: Hand To God, Booth Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭

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REVIEW: Hand To God, Booth Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭

Written by Robert Askins and directed by Moritz von Stuelpnagel, Hand To God plays like an obsidian black farce which turns on those stock elements of farce …

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Stephen Collins

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REVIEW: Gigi, Neil Simon Theatre ✭✭✭✭

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REVIEW: Gigi, Neil Simon Theatre ✭✭✭✭

Indeed, the most interesting thing about this reworking of the piece is that, while it may be called Gigi, and there is constant talk of, with and about her,…

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Stephen Collins

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