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The show is worth seeing for the cutting-edge visuals alone but, while it stylishly captures much of the theme and substance of the novel, it is lacking in emotional engagement - something that could also be said about Auster's New York Trilogy.
Mark Ludmon
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If you see nothing else this year, see this! It is a hallucinogenic wander through a maze of brilliantly realised spaces, evoking scenes and adventures from …
Julian Eaves
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While Nuclear War is at times confusing and disorienting, it is riveting throughout its 45 minutes, leaving you with words, sounds and sights that will conti…
Mark Ludmon
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Play Something is a slick, funny, emotional rollercoaster of a ride with some pretty cool tunes to match – and you can’t ask for much more than that in life.
Neil D'Arcy-Jones
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New short plays by Tom Wells and other writers will be staged by Paines Plough in Hull to tie in with it being the UK's City of Culture for 2017.
Mark Ludmon
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Hattie Morahan, Paul Hilton and Kate O’Flynn are to lead the cast in Alice Birch’s new play, Anatomy of a Suicide, at the Royal Court.
Mark Ludmon
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It was a delight to revisit Funny Girl tonight. It's a wonderfully rich evening in the theatre and the partnering of Barnes and Campbell is pure theatre magic.
Douglas Mayo
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Poor translation, vague concepts and an undramatic source material all make for a dispiriting and slightly uncomfortable fare.
Sophie Adnitt
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Curiously colour-changing drinks and other cocktails will be served up at a theatrical bar inspired by hit show Alice’s Adventures Underground at The Vaults.
Mark Ludmon
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Drowning On Dry Land is one of Ayckbourn's most tonally surprising and unstable works; technically it is also one of his most sparingly and yet also elaborat…
Julian Eaves
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Emma Fielding and Forbes Masson are to lead the cast of courtroom drama Terror at the Lyric Hammersmith where the audience decides on the verdict.
Mark Ludmon
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Birds Of Paradise is a new musical with music by David Evans and Lyrics by Winnie Holzman, and book by Holzman and Evans. Birds Of Paradise will have its UK …
Douglas Mayo
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Ballroom the musical is finally to have its European Premiere this May with a production that is to star Jessica Martin at Waterloo East Theatre.
Douglas Mayo
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