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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 Butler is at his best as Patrick in his scenes with Hulme, and together they chart the intimacy of the friendship which t…
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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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Finding Neverland is a truly magical musical theatre experience. The score is lively and quite quite beautiful. From ballads to raucous boy songs and big, ge…
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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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The result is fresh, frivolous and somewhat interactive theatrical tomfoolery. It looks haphazard and unsophisticated but actually it is the result of carefu…
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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
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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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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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This is Patti LuPone in full, unstoppable Diva mode, strutting her cabaret credentials at 54 Below in a show designed to show her range: The Lady With The To…
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It’s all downhill from there. The drama begins and quickly it all goes to pot. Lines are forgotten, the acting is terrible, and the efforts of all of the act…
Douglas Mayo
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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
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Whatever your thoughts about Chenoweth, her performance in this musical is that one-of-a-kind, flat-out unbelievably extraordinary star turns that leaves you…
Stephen Collins
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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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