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The latest theatre news, West End reviews, show guides, and behind-the-scenes features from British Theatre's editorial team.

REVIEW: No Villain, Old Red Lion Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭
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REVIEW: No Villain, Old Red Lion Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭

The play itself would get four stars from me, but the outstanding production values and overall experience of the evening enable me to add a final star at the top of the tree.

Tim Hochstrasser

Tim Hochstrasser

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REVIEW: Loserville, Union Theatre ✭✭✭

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REVIEW: Loserville, Union Theatre ✭✭✭

Loserville is a production full of E numbers; bright and sweet but likely to overload you. It’s a derivative script and score made as good as it can get by s…

Danny Coleman-Cooke

Danny Coleman-Cooke

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REVIEW: Kings Of Broadway, Palace Theatre ✭✭✭

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REVIEW: Kings Of Broadway, Palace Theatre ✭✭✭

This was a delightful evening, bursting with talent at all points, and consistently enjoyable. It is good to be able to stand back sometimes and reflect on t…

Douglas Mayo

Douglas Mayo

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REVIEW: SpinCycle, Theatre N16 ✭✭✭✭

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REVIEW: SpinCycle, Theatre N16 ✭✭✭✭

Regardless of the format, theatre of telly, SpinCycle is a great piece of writing performed superbly by The Canting Crew. If only it were around for a longer…

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Editorial Staff

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REVIEW: Faustaff, Cockpit Theatre ✭✭

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REVIEW: Faustaff, Cockpit Theatre ✭✭

Despite these stark issues, the Cockpit Theatre is a wonderful space and the lighting was well deployed to create some tense moments. Bizarrely, someone in t…

Danny Coleman-Cooke

Danny Coleman-Cooke

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REVIEW: Echoes, Arcola Theatre ✭✭✭✭

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REVIEW: Echoes, Arcola Theatre ✭✭✭✭

Echoes is a success for many reasons but fundamentally it’s because there is such strength in the story telling. In fact there are 2 stories running concurre…

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Christine Firkin

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REVIEW: The Miniaturists, Arcola Theatre ✭✭

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REVIEW: The Miniaturists, Arcola Theatre ✭✭

With the death of provincial repertory theatre, the connections between the theatre world of London and ‘the provinces’ have atrophied, and where The Miniatu…

Tim Hochstrasser

Tim Hochstrasser

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