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REVIEW: The Burial Of The Rats, Edinburgh Fringe Festival ✭✭
There is no doubt a germ of a good show in this bold re-interpretation of Stoker's story but this production unfortunately falls short of achieving it.
Mark Ludmon
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REVIEW: Twilight Song, Park Theatre ✭✭✭
While Twilight Song lacks the power of My Night With Reg, it is an enjoyable piece of drama that sharply portrays people – both gay and straight – who feel t…
Mark Ludmon
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REVIEW: Apologia, Trafalgar Studios ✭✭✭✭
Stockard Channing is outstanding as Kristin in Apologia, urbane and bitchy but covering up intense emotions that she can barely understand.
Mark Ludmon
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REVIEW: Road, Royal Court Theatre ✭✭✭✭
But there was one thing I had forgotten. It was always there, I had just forgotten it. And that’s how brilliant a writer Cartwright is.
Paul T Davies
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Anne Reid cast as Lady Hunstanton in A Woman Of No Importance at Vaudeville Theatre
Anne Reid is to play Lady Hunstanton in Oscar Wilde's A Woman Of No Importance at The Vaudeville Theatre.
Douglas Mayo
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REVIEW: Queers Part 1, Old Vic Theatre ✭✭✭✭
Directed by Mark Gatiss and Joe Murphy, they are poignant and funny but, most of all, they are stories of hope and survival.
Mark Ludmon
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REVIEW: Girl From The North Country, Old Vic Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭
Not for nothing does the audience rise to its feet at the end of the performance. Because, it knows, it has not met any strangers during the performance. It …
Julian Eaves
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Stars announced for Other Palace musical theatre festival
West End stars have been announced for a festival of musical theatre at The Other Palace in London, headlined by the premiere of a new show co-written by Bur…
Mark Ludmon
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REVIEW: Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, Apollo Theatre ✭✭✭
If the first half problems could be sorted out, this could be one of the best productions on the West End. As it is, it is saved from the jaws of disaster by…
Paul T Davies
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REVIEW: I Loved Lucy, Arts Theatre ✭✭
Dickinson is superb in I Loved Lucy. She gives a masterclass in how to fascinate and compel an audience's avid attention.
Julian Eaves
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REVIEW: Gloria, Hampstead Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭
Gloria is a gripping and darkly funny drama, confirming Branden Jacobs-Jenkins as one of America's best and freshest writers in theatre.
Mark Ludmon
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REVIEW: Mosquitoes, National Theatre ✭✭✭✭
Slickly directed by Rufus Norris, Mosquitoes entertains and enlightens although, if I may use one of its metaphors, it lacks bite.
Mark Ludmon
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