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REVIEW: The Boring Room, Vault Festival ✭
The Boring Room is hardly worth all that effort. And, if you're thinking of going, think long and hard before you do.
Julian Eaves
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REVIEW: A Brave Face, Mercury Theatre Colchester ✭✭✭✭
Vamos are one of the best theatre companies working in Britain today, and they embark on a nationwide tour with A Brave Face. They are not to be missed.
Paul T Davies
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McKellen's Lear Causes ATG Box Office Crash
When tickets for King Lear went on sale today at midday, the ATG online ticketing system failed to cope with demand of rock star proportions as thousands of …
Douglas Mayo
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REVIEW: Long Day's Journey Into Night, Wyndham's Theatre ✭✭✭✭
O’Neill’s stonking piece of work is safe and in the care of visionary director Richard Eyre and a wonderful cast lead by the luminous Lesley Manville.
Helena Payne
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FIRST LOOK: Kneehigh's production of Brief Encounter by Noel Coward
Douglas Mayo
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REVIEW: Gundog, Royal Court Theatre ✭✭✭✭
Yes Gundog is a bleak play, but the script breaks into the most wonderful, poetic language, particularly from Mick, who delivers a beautiful speech about pla…
Paul T Davies
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REVIEW: Eugenius!, The Other Palace ✭✭✭
With a book, music and lyrics by Ben Adams and Chris Wilkins, there's a lot to recommended with Eugenius!, but any major staging also makes blatantly obvious…
Douglas Mayo
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Nichola McAuliffe stars in new adaptation of Great Expectations
A brand-new production of the timeless classic Great Expectations starring Nichola McAuliffe, comes to Richmond Theatre from Mon 12 – Sat 17 Mar
Douglas Mayo
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Major West End Stars join Sir Richard Stilgoe's Orpheus The Mythical at The Other Palace
Highlighting the important work of the Orpheus Trust, alumni and current students from this pioneering disabilities charity will join forces with recent grad…
Douglas Mayo
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Mel Giedroyc joins the cast of Stephen Sondheim's Company at the Gielgud Theatre
Douglas Mayo
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REVIEW: How To Be A Kid, Orange Tree Theatre ✭✭✭✭
As a tool to start conversations, as well as being a decently entertaining piece of theatre, How To Be A Kid is a high quality, endearing and surprisingly co…
Sophie Adnitt
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REVIEW: What Would Julie Do?, The Pheasantry ✭✭✭
Sopher Linder-Lee is quite a find. Her powerfully flexible and wonderfully accurate voice, as well as her attractive stage presence virtually monopolised th…
Julian Eaves
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REVIEW: Dry Powder, Hampstead Theatre ✭✭
Unfortunately, dramatically, the dry powder never sparks alight, and this is a dry night at the theatre.
Paul T Davies
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REVIEW: Julius Caesar, Bridge Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭
If you stand, expect to become part of the action, as Bunny Christies’ superb design flows and moves with the audience- it’s rather wonderful that the crew a…
Paul T Davies
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Casting announced for Titanic the musical UK Tour
Casting has been announced for the first ever UK and Ireland Tour of Titanic The Musical. Following his acclaimed production in London and Toronto, Thom Sout…
Douglas Mayo
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Samuel Barnett and Declan Bennett to star in Kiss Of The Spider Woman
Samuel Barnett is to play Molina opposite Declan Bennett as Valentin in the Menier Chocolate Factory's production of Manuel Puig's Kiss Of The Spider Woman w…
Douglas Mayo
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Cirque Du Soleil Celebrates 1000th Performance at Royal Albert Hall
The award-winning international circus troupe Cirque Du Soleil will celebrate its 1000th performance at London's Royal Albert Hall where it is currently perf…
Douglas Mayo
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REVIEW: Rothschild and Sons, Park Theatre ✭✭✭✭
Mark Ludmon reviews the UK premiere of Bock and Harnick’s musical Rothschild & Sons at Park Theatre
Mark Ludmon
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REVIEW: Glengarry Glen Ross, Playhouse Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭
Nearly 35 years later, it has not lost any of its relevance in its dissection of the American dream and its ideal that anyone can reach the top if they have …
Douglas Mayo
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REVIEW: John, National Theatre (Dorfman) ✭✭✭✭✭
I loved John, even though it will take me days to unpack everything in it, and even then I may not know exactly what is going on. Unique and extraordinary, …
Paul T Davies
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