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REVIEW: Patti Lupone - The Lady With The Torch, 54 Below ✭✭✭
This is Patti LuPone in full, unstoppable Diva mode, strutting her cabaret credentials at 54 Below in a show designed to show her range: The Lady With The To…
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Stephen Collins
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REVIEW: The Play That Goes Wrong, Duchess Theatre ✭✭✭✭
It’s all downhill from there. The drama begins and quickly it all goes to pot. Lines are forgotten, the acting is terrible, and the efforts of all of the act…
Douglas Mayo
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REVIEW: Apartment 40C, St James Studio ✭✭✭
The last three songs ‘Pocket Park’, Time’, and ‘A Child’ are very fine, demonstrate what this creative team are capable of at their best, and vindicate the f…
Tim Hochstrasser
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REVIEW: On The Twentieth Century, American Airlines Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭
Whatever your thoughts about Chenoweth, her performance in this musical is that one-of-a-kind, flat-out unbelievably extraordinary star turns that leaves you…
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Stephen Collins
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REVIEW: Fish In The Dark, Cort Theatre ✭✭✭
There is nothing ground-breaking here. But what there is is a great deal of cleverness, wordplay and daft, idiosyncratic physical comedy involving stock, arc…
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Stephen Collins
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Follies At The Royal Albert Hall - Great Seats Still Available
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REVIEW: It Shoulda Been You, Brooks Atkinson Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭
This is the sort of Musical Comedy which puts equal emphasis on the constituent parts - music and comedy. It's a gentle, involving and delicious confection. …
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Stephen Collins
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REVIEW: The King And I, Vivian Beaumont Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭
Together with set designer Michael Yeargan, costume designer Catherine Zuber and choreographer Christopher Gattelli, Bartlett Sher has completely reimagined …
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Stephen Collins
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REVIEW: The Three Lions, St James Theatre ✭✭✭✭
“David Cameron, David Beckham, and Prince William walk into a hotel suite” could be the start of a truly cringe-worthy joke, but in The Three Lions, now play…
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REVIEW: Hand To God, Booth Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭
Written by Robert Askins and directed by Moritz von Stuelpnagel, Hand To God plays like an obsidian black farce which turns on those stock elements of farce …
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Stephen Collins
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REVIEW: Gigi, Neil Simon Theatre ✭✭✭✭
Indeed, the most interesting thing about this reworking of the piece is that, while it may be called Gigi, and there is constant talk of, with and about her,…
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Stephen Collins
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REVIEW: The Sound Of Music, New Wimbledon Theatre ✭✭✭✭
It’s great to see so many people of all ages enjoying and loving The Sound Of Music. There’s a magic about the Sound Of Music that defies explanation, genera…
Douglas Mayo
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REVIEW: An American In Paris: Palace Theatre ✭✭✭✭
Christopher Wheeldon's vision here, as director and choreographer, is remarkably detailed and endlessly lavish and ambitious. Without huge pre-built sets, Bo…
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Stephen Collins
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REVIEW: Game Theory, Tristan Bates Theatre ✭✭✭
Game Theory leaves one with far more questions than answers. Unfortunately, they tend to be about the form and structure of the show, far more than the subst…
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REVIEW: The Heidi Chronicles, Music Box Theatre ✭✭✭✭
This is a play about the inequality women endure every day in almost every aspect of life, the way women treat women badly, viciously even, and the pains, pl…
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Stephen Collins
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