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The latest theatre news, West End reviews, show guides, and behind-the-scenes features from British Theatre's editorial team.
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REVIEW: Duncton Wood, Union Theatre ✭✭✭✭
Michael Strassen's richly detailed, splendidly cast, and lovingly staged premiere production of Duncton Wood (music and lyrics from Mark Carroll, book by Jam…
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Stephen Collins
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REVIEW: James Freedman - Man Of Steal, Trafalgar Studios 1 ✭✭✭✭
It is always fantastic to see original theatre in London and Man of Steal certainly breaks new ground in putting on a public safety lecture with a difference…
Danny Coleman-Cooke
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REVIEW: Jason Robert Brown In Concert, Royal Festival Hall ✭✭✭✭
The unstoppable, extraordinary Cynthia Erivo proved, twice, what a potent combination Brown's music and lyrics can be in the hands of a singer whose voice ca…
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Stephen Collins
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REVIEW: Just Jim Dale, Vaudeville Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭
It is genuinely delightful to be able to report that anyone, child, adult, theatre sceptic or theatre lover, should have no hesitation in snaffling a ticket …
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Stephen Collins
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REVIEW: As You Like It, Shakespeare's Globe ✭✭✭
Blanche McIntyre, whose revival of As You Like It now at the Globe, uses every trick in the book to make Shakespeare's play clear (it is, very), risqué (it i…
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Stephen Collins
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REVIEW: Mess, Albany Theatre ✭✭✭✭
Caroline Horton’s Mess is probably the most honest portrayal of an eating disorder that one can find on stage.
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REVIEW: The Beaux' Stratagem, Olivier Theatre ✭✭✭
Of all the cast, it is the gifted Susannah Fielding who comes closest to the right style of acting. She really is a tremendous performer, winning in her wins…
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Stephen Collins
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REVIEW: Sense Of An Ending, Theatre 503 ✭✭✭✭
As this fine play moved towards its nuanced ending I could not help making a comparison with an earlier work that placed nuns in a setting of impossible choi…
Tim Hochstrasser
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REVIEW: Show Off, The Pheasantry ✭✭✭✭
Nikki Aitken, with pianist Simona Budd, performed Show Off. Aitken is a widely recognized artist in Australia where she has won awards for her cabaret progra…
Tim Hochstrasser
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REVIEW: Skin In Flames, Park Theatre ✭✭✭✭
It would be wrong to reveal more of the detail but the writer deserves great credit for the way in which he remorselessly brings the stories together in the …
Tim Hochstrasser
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REVIEW: The One Day Of The Year, Finborough Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭
Despite its trappings and narrative, this is not a play about Anzac Day, the public holiday in Australia where attention is paid to those who fought for thei…
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Stephen Collins
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REVIEW: Beyond Bollywood, London Palladium ✭✭
All these positives on the creative side only sharpen the regret that this reviewer and clearly many of the audience felt that we were not seeing more of the…
Tim Hochstrasser
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