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REVIEW: Pure Imagination: A Sorta-Biography by Leslie Bricusse ✭✭✭✭✭
The book is laid out like a sorta-score. There is an Overture, large chapters which form 'the key changes of (Bricusse's) life' - from A Minor to G Undiminis…
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Stephen Collins
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REVIEW: Crushed Shells and Mud, Southwark Playhouse ✭✭✭
Crushed Shells and Mud starts well and features some wonderful performances. However, somewhere in the second half it unfortunately gets well and truly stuck.
Danny Coleman-Cooke
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Thriller Live UK Tour
The Thriller Live UK Tour continues whilst the Thriller West End production continues to shatter records. Book Now!
Douglas Mayo
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REVIEW: Nell Gwynn, Globe Theatre ✭✭✭
While there are more serious moments to be found in this play, especially focused on the opportunities for women in the new theatre of the 1660s, there is no…
Tim Hochstrasser
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REVIEW: Horniman's Choice, Finborough Theatre ✭✭✭✭
All in all this is a revival very much deserving of support. You reward will be some genuinely fine ensemble acting and some neglected writing that you can e…
Tim Hochstrasser
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REVIEW: West End Heroes, Dominion Theatre ✭✭✭✭
West End Heroes wisely avoided making the concert a remembrance festival; instead it was a celebration of the brilliant talent within both the military and t…
Danny Coleman-Cooke
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REVIEW: The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey, Westside Theatre ✭✭✭✭
Lecesne has a winning charm and a cast-iron technique, so his spinning wheel presentation of a myriad of small town character types is absolutely engaging an…
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Stephen Collins
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REVIEW: Eventide, Arcola Theatre Studio 2 ✭✭✭
This is a genial, quietly satisfying set of reflections on how hard rural life can be and how mostly distant it has always been from any kind of Arcadian idy…
Tim Hochstrasser
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REVIEW: Stitching, White Bear Theatre ✭✭✭
Stitching is an interesting and challenging play, undermined by a late twist, but still engaging. There are a number of moments which will take some people a…
Matthew Lunn
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REVIEW: Nobody's Business, Kings Head Theatre ✭✭✭
Part Felicity Kendall, part Carol Channing, with just a soupçon of Jo Grant (The Doctor Who companion she first played about forty five years ago) and legs t…
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Stephen Collins
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REVIEW: Valhalla, Theatre 503 ✭✭✭✭
Valhalla is an intense and gripping production, which showed its class in very difficult circumstances. Whilst the ending could do with some work, it is clev…
Danny Coleman-Cooke
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REVIEW: 5 Guys Chillin', King's Head Theatre ✭✭✭✭
It both shines a light on a corner of society which is misunderstood and unfairly vilified and, examines the rules, conventions, habits and language of a par…
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Stephen Collins
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REVIEW: The Sweethearts, Finborough Theatre ✭✭✭✭
The Sweethearts is a truly fascinating play, and I am certain that Sarah Page has a very bright future as a playwright. The theme of heroism is particularly …
Matthew Lunn
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CRITICS CHOICE: Top 10 Long Running Shows in London - October 2015
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Stephen Collins
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REVIEW: Showstopper! The Improvised Musical, Apollo Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭
If you attend the theatre regularly, you will undoubtedly have encountered that rare, awful, but entirely exquisite, moment when an actor dries, a prop fails…
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Stephen Collins
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