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REVIEW: Finding Neverland, Lunt-Fontanne Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭
Finding Neverland is a truly magical musical theatre experience. The score is lively and quite quite beautiful. From ballads to raucous boy songs and big, ge…
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Stephen Collins
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REVIEW: Rumpy Pumpy, Landor Theatre ✭
Some of Mackie's tunes are pleasant and catchy - the music is easily the superior component in the work. But it is held back, both by poor lyrics and, genera…
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Stephen Collins
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REVIEW: Drunk Shakespeare, Roy Arias Stages ✭✭✭✭
The result is fresh, frivolous and somewhat interactive theatrical tomfoolery. It looks haphazard and unsophisticated but actually it is the result of carefu…
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Stephen Collins
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REVIEW: Two, Above The Arts ✭✭✭✭
Ultimately, TWO is a very fine night out at the theatre that zips through its eighty-minute length in no time, leaving you full of admiration at such detaile…
Tim Hochstrasser
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REVIEW: The Visit, Lyceum Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭
For 90 minutes of ecstatic storytelling, you are transported to a place where love, death and consequence are dancing together and where a victory for true l…
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Stephen Collins
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REVIEW: Living On Love, Longacre Theatre ✭
Renée Fleming is an accomplished operatic soprano with a voice of ravishing beauty and the capacity to move opera audiences to extremes of emotion by her ext…
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Stephen Collins
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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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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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