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REVIEW: Impossible, Noel Coward Theatre ✭✭✭✭
Some doubted whether a magic show could thrive in the modern day West End but Impossible truly provides a first-class spectacle. It is intelligently staged a…
Danny Coleman-Cooke
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REVIEW: Operation Crucible, Finborough Theatre ✭✭✭✭
This is a noisy and shouty play and in many ways that is necessarily so – industrial processes, bombs, football matches, drinking in the pub – these provide …
Tim Hochstrasser
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REVIEW: Bakkhai, Almeida Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭
This is Whishaw's show - no question. He is a force of nature, fiercely unearthing every moment of nuance, humour and purpose from the text and giving a tota…
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Stephen Collins
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REVIEW: Of Thee I Sing, Royal Festival Hall ✭✭
The comic performance of the night, and the source of most consistent pleasure, came from the very talented Tom Edden who made an acting masterclass out of t…
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Stephen Collins
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REVIEW: Jekyll & Hyde, Platform Theatre ✭✭✭
Jekyll & Hyde never feels like a gimmick and avoids the traps of so many reworkings. Instead it’s an intelligent and creative production which is well st…
Danny Coleman-Cooke
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REVIEW: Aida, Opera Holland Park ✭✭✭
This is a very great opera that can take many different interpretations. However, there is no room for compromise. Ultimately, it either has to be done strai…
Tim Hochstrasser
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REVIEW: Three Days In The Country, National Theatre (Lyttleton) ✭✭✭✭
So often the press night comes too early in a run to fully assess a production’s potential. This welcome and ambitious new version has not yet attained great…
Tim Hochstrasser
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REVIEW: Oklahoma! Lyceum Theatre Sheffield ✭✭✭✭✭
Rachel Kavanaugh presents us with a wily, almost feral Aunt Eller, a metrosexual Curly, a tomboy Laurey, an arch but staunchly feminine Ado Annie, a profound…
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Stephen Collins
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REVIEW: Oh! Carol, Crazy Coqs ✭✭✭✭
Happily, Oh! Carol provides a thoroughly entertaining and exuberant cross-section of Sedaka's work. There are the hits but also lesser remembered works, and …
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Stephen Collins
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REVIEW: The Spitfire Grill, Union Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭
The Spitfire Grill is a musical treat. James Valco's score is richly rewarding and creates a genuinely engaging musical atmosphere which helps shape and driv…
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Stephen Collins
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REVIEW: Hecuba, White Bear Theatre ✭✭✭
For all these reasons, a new production of Hecuba is very welcome and cannot fail to be thought provoking and moving, even when allied to a parallel re-telli…
Tim Hochstrasser
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REVIEW: Songs For A New World, St James Theatre ✭✭✭✭
In Jenna Russell, Damian Humbley and Cynthia Erivo, Lenson has assembled three of the best, most exciting performers of musical theatre in London. Each perfo…
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Stephen Collins
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REVIEW: Twelfth Night, Space Theatre ✭✭✭
When it comes to a tried and tested classic like Twelfth Night, it’s sometimes quite rare to come away feeling you’ve seen something new and different. For b…
Danny Coleman-Cooke
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REVIEW: American Idiot, Arts Theatre ✭✭✭
American Idiot is a bit of a frustrating production; whilst the music of Green Day has plenty to offer a musical, it doesn’t seem right for a sung-through st…
Danny Coleman-Cooke
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