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REVIEW: It's Only A Play, Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre ✭✭✭
The night belongs to Nathan Lane who is hilariously vicious as James Wicker, an actor who turned down the lead role in the play written by his best friend be…
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Stephen Collins
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REVIEW: Grand Guignol, Southwark Playhouse ✭✭✭
There may be plenty of blood, guts and severed body parts but there is little reason to faint as audience members regularly did at the original Grand-Guignol…
Mark Ludmon
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Cast Announced For The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe at Rose Theatre
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REVIEW: On The Town, Lyric Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭
The dancing has a style, a language of its own and, certainly as choreographed by Bergasse, is more articulate than pages of dialogue. The steps are tricky, …
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Stephen Collins
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REVIEW: You Can't Take It With You, Longacre Theatre ✭✭✭✭
There are forced laughs, natural laughs, gentle laughs, belly laughs and many, many smiles over the course of the production. By the final Act, however, you …
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Stephen Collins
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REVIEW: The Wild Duck, Barbican Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭
It is, in every way, a complete theatrical triumph; a marvellous reimagining of Ibsen, set firmly in an Australian idiom, resonating with thrilling power, an…
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Stephen Collins
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REVIEW: Neville's Island, Duke Of York's Theatre ✭
The prospect of discovering what the blood was about, where Angus' wife was, what Roy's secret was and how the four get along was not sufficiently compelling…
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Stephen Collins
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REVIEW: James III - The True Miror, National Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭
Sansom imbues this play with a reckless, frenetic energy, a listlessness that reflects the monarch's temperament and a sexy, splendid pulse that tantalises a…
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Stephen Collins
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REVIEW: James I: The Key Will Keep The Lock, National Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭
Spare, visceral and gripping, this is an extraordinarily wonderful production of an important and difficult new play, which shines a light onto forgotten eve…
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Stephen Collins
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REVIEW: James II - Day Of the Innocents, National Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭
The script and treatment of the material in the writing of this play is so different than the first, that one could be forgiven for thinking that a different…
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Stephen Collins
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REVIEW: The Scottsboro Boys, Garrick Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭
The Scottsboro Boys relies on the skills of its acting company, giving them chairs and tambourines and a few costumes, as their only tools and the show becom…
Douglas Mayo
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REVIEW: The Cherry Orchard, Young Vic ✭✭✭✭
Set firmly in the present, this version lacks languid notions about the past, does not spend too much time on the intricacies of character and prefers shock …
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Stephen Collins
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