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REVIEW: Whisper House, The Other Palace ✭✭✭
Overall, Whisper House is an interesting experiment, a novel departure from the 'norms' of musical theatre. If it doesn't quite fulfill its ambitions, well, …
Julian Eaves
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REVIEW: Natives, Southwark Playhouse ✭✭✭✭
Natives is a sharply written chronicle of coming of age at a time when digital technology presents new challenges for young people but could also provide the…
Mark Ludmon
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REVIEW: After You, Crazy Coqs at Cafe Zedel ✭✭✭
There is a simplicity to the characters which is artless and appealing in its own way, but it also makes them rather thinly drawn, and even over the course o…
Julian Eaves
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REVIEW: Guards At The Taj, Bush Theatre ✭✭✭✭
A deeply affecting story with moments of dark humour, Guards at the Taj is an excellent choice of a premiere for the newly renovated Bush Theatre.
Sophie Adnitt
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REVIEW: Shit-Faced Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Leicester Square Theatre ✭✭✭✭
Shit-Faced Shakespeare, with the essence of the rustic fringe festival at its heart, is a welcoming night of inebriated indecency which unshackles you from r…
Alexa Terry
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REVIEW: Kray Kray, Theatre N16 ✭✭✭✭
Kray Kray is another terrific feather in the cap of the enterprising Theatre N16 and not to be missed.
Julian Eaves
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REVIEW: Running Wild, West Yorkshire Playhouse ✭✭✭✭
It was fitting that at the end that Oona the elephant took her own curtain call; it was exactly right for a production that takes that imaginative part of ou…
Jonathan Hall
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REVIEW: Brutus And Other Heroines, Harriet Walter ✭✭✭✭
In her illuminating new book, Brutus and Other Heroines, she takes us through the processes and thinking that led to Lloyd's ground-breaking all-female versi…
Mark Ludmon
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REVIEW: Audra McDonald In Concert, Leicester Square Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭
If you can get a ticket for the remaining shows, do. If not, she'll be at the Wyndham's as 'Lady Day' in May. Perfect.
Julian Eaves
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Dreamgirls Cast Album Release Date Announced
Sonia Friedman Productions has confirmed the Dreamgirls Original London Cast Album will be released on Friday 12 May 201&. Pre-order now!
Douglas Mayo
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Out of Joint appoints new artistic director
Kate Wasserberg, the award-winning founder and artistic director of The Other Room in Cardiff, is to join Max Stafford-Clark and producer Martin Derbyshire t…
Mark Ludmon
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Moliere play to be staged in French and English
A production of Molière’s classic comedy, The Misanthrope – performed in English and French – is coming to London’s Drayton Arms Theatre.
Mark Ludmon
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REVIEW: 46 Beacon, Trafalgar Studios 2 ✭✭✭
There is little drama, and no dramatic stakes are raised, and for that reason it may struggle to be remembered in the lexicon of gay drama. However, that is …
Paul T Davies
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New London cast for Play That Goes Wrong
A new cast has been announced for the London production of The Play That Goes Wrong as it continues on its path to world domination.
Mark Ludmon
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1970s sitcom The Liver Birds inspires new musical
A new musical based on classic 1970s sitcom The Liver Birds is to be presented for one night only at The Epstein Theatre in Liverpool.
Mark Ludmon
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