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REVIEW: The Screwtape Letters, Park Theatre ✭✭✭
The joy of the play and the original text comes from the inverted morality of Screwtape's world, where good is bad and sinning is applauded.
Mark Ludmon
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Casting Announced For Death Takes A Holiday at Charing Cross Theatre
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REVIEW: She Loves Me, Menier Chocolate Factory ✭✭✭
As for this show, it’s all rather pretty and well-behaved and won’t do you any harm. Nothing to be ashamed of.
Julian Eaves
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UPCOMING: Summer Street, Old Red Lion Theatre
Wonderfully melodic, strongly rhythmic and engagingly structured, the musical numbers in this score are its greatest glory.
Julian Eaves
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UPCOMING: The Unblinding
This work combines an App-based animated graphic novel with audio and music and is launched direct to individual phones/tablets (the PC-friendly platform wil…
Julian Eaves
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REVIEW: Thebes Land, Arcola Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭
It cleverly blurs the line between reality and what we are seeing on stage in a way that is unsettling and leaves you questioning the theatrical experience i…
Mark Ludmon
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REVIEW: Giles Terera and Friends, The Pheasantry ✭✭✭✭✭
By the time everyone trooped back onto the stage for the group curtain call, we all knew we’d been through something special. And for all of you who missed …
Julian Eaves
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REVIEW: Licensed To Ill, Southwark Playhouse ✭✭✭
This is a play which is going somewhere, and it could be going somewhere really, really big, but right now it's a boy who is old enough to smell but not yet …
Julian Eaves
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REVIEW: Jest End, Waterloo East Theatre ✭✭✭✭
Jest End returns to Waterloo East with a new, updated show which takes all the musicals you know and love, and tears them to pieces.
Sophie Adnitt
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REVIEW: Her Aching Heart, Hope Theatre ✭✭
As harmless, seasonal larking about goes, this show is an undemanding couple of hours: if you go to it with an abundant admiration of the author and/or subje…
Julian Eaves
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REVIEW: Peter Pan, National Theatre ✭✭✭✭
It's a wonderful production that will delight audiences of all ages and had all of us clapping to show that we really do believe in fairies.
Douglas Mayo
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REVIEW: Pride And Prejudice, Jermyn Street Theatre ✭✭✭✭
This is an accomplished show, capturing the spirit and social comedy of Austen with added humour from the multiple casting. It has come to the Jermyn Street …
Mark Ludmon
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REVIEW: Sinbad - The Rock 'N' Roll Panto, New Wolsey Theatre ✭✭✭✭
The Wolsey hold the record for the longest running pantomime in the UK, so you’ve plenty of time to go up the gang plank to the Saucy Sausage; it’s a ride yo…
Paul T Davies
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REVIEW: Disaster, Charing Cross Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭
There is no doubt in my mind that Disaster! has everything needed to be a success in the West End. Judging from the audience reaction I would have thought it…
Douglas Mayo
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Rufus Hound Hosts Twelve Musical Theatre Stars At Actor's Church
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REVIEW: Catch Me, Above The Arts Theatre ✭✭✭
I came away from the performance greatly impressed by the technical achievement in constructing an ingenious chamber musical with the material, but rather in…
Julian Eaves
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