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REVIEW: Personals, Landor Theatre ✭✭✭✭
Personals, a comedy musical about finding love through lonely hearts columns, was first performed in 1985, and technology has rendered it an unintentional pe…
Matthew Lunn
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REVIEW: Seven Brides For Seven Brothers, Regent's Park Open Air Theatre ✭✭✭
The utterly reliable Laura Pitt-Pulford brings strength, warmth and thoughtfulness to Milly - frankly, she outdoes Jane Powell by some distance. Her Milly is…
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Stephen Collins
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REVIEW: The Three Little Pigs, Palace Theatre ✭✭✭✭
The children sitting around me were having a ball. Engaged, entertained and thoroughly enjoying themselves and that’s brilliant.
Douglas Mayo
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REVIEW: Lakmé, Opera Holland Park ✭✭✭✭✭
Yet, Holland Park Opera, here working under director Aylin Bozok, show that these problems are by no means insuperable where the company have confidence in t…
Tim Hochstrasser
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REVIEW: Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Opera Holland Park ✭✭✭✭✭
If you have missed this charming opera this time around then do book now for one of the performances at the Linbury Studio Theatre in early November. You won…
Tim Hochstrasser
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REVIEW: Annie Jnr, Arts Theatre ✭✭✭
It must be every stage school kid’s dream to perform in the West End and the cast of Annie has certainly not passed up the opportunity. It’s an infectiously …
Danny Coleman-Cooke
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REVIEW: The Woman In Black, Fortune Theatre ✭✭✭✭
There’s nothing like a good ghost story to get the heart racing and give you a good scare. The Woman In Black has now been doing just that for twenty-eight y…
Douglas Mayo
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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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