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REVIEW: Lifeboat, West Yorkshire Playhouse ✭✭✭✭✭
Perhaps the greatest testament to the spell cast by Lifeboat came from the audience of children sat crossed in two rows either side of the performance space,…
Jonathan Hall
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REVIEW: Madame Rubinstein, Park Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭
Margolyes is all stillness and urgent rouge-et-noir power; her delivery like acid etching a design on copperplate. Barber speaks with that magical voice tha…
Julian Eaves
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Tony Awards 2017 - The Nominees
The nominations for the Tony Awards 2017 were announced today with Hello Dolly! and Natasha, Pierre and The Great Comet of 1812 leading the nominations.
Douglas Mayo
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Martin McDonagh’s Hangmen to transfer to New York
Martin McDonagh's Olivier Award-winning play Hangmen will transfer to Broadway under the auspices of the Atlantic Theatre Company.
Mark Ludmon
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REVIEW: Maria Friedman, Live at Zedel ✭✭✭✭✭
"You don’t so much leave at the end of this concert, as sail away from it on a wave of euphoria" says our theatre critic Julian Eaves of Maria Friedman.
Julian Eaves
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REVIEW: You and Me and Sondheim, Arts Theatre ✭✭✭✭
Hopefully, we will get to enjoy Claybourne Elder's fine, mellifluous vocals again in London, either in a return of his solo show or on a West End stage.
Mark Ludmon
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REVIEW: The Treatment, Almeida Theatre ✭✭✭✭
The Treatment feels rather tame but, in this revival, it remains a mesmerising, entertaining dark comedy that conjures up the confusing perplexities of moder…
Mark Ludmon
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REVIEW: The Cardinal, Southwark Playhouse ✭✭✭
Maybe James Shirley isn't one of the greatest playwrights ever to animate the stages of this country, but he's far from the worst, and this is probably his b…
Julian Eaves
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REVIEW: Romeo And Juliet, The Globe ✭✭✭✭
Kramer and the cast of Romeo and Juliet deserve praise for taking a well-trod story and giving it a fresh, interesting and exciting new slant.
Mark Ludmon
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REVIEW: Paul Auster's City Of Glass, Lyric Hammersmith ✭✭✭✭
The show is worth seeing for the cutting-edge visuals alone but, while it stylishly captures much of the theme and substance of the novel, it is lacking in e…
Mark Ludmon
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REVIEW: Alice's Adventures Underground, The Vaults ✭✭✭✭✭
If you see nothing else this year, see this! It is a hallucinogenic wander through a maze of brilliantly realised spaces, evoking scenes and adventures from …
Julian Eaves
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REVIEW: Nuclear War, Royal Court Jerwood Upstairs ✭✭✭✭
While Nuclear War is at times confusing and disorienting, it is riveting throughout its 45 minutes, leaving you with words, sounds and sights that will conti…
Mark Ludmon
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REVIEW: Play Something, Lakeside Theatre ✭✭✭✭
Play Something is a slick, funny, emotional rollercoaster of a ride with some pretty cool tunes to match – and you can’t ask for much more than that in life.
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Neil D'Arcy-Jones
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Paines Plough reveals writers for Hull 2017 project
New short plays by Tom Wells and other writers will be staged by Paines Plough in Hull to tie in with it being the UK's City of Culture for 2017.
Mark Ludmon
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