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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 Torch. Supported by an extraordinarily gifted band (piano, trumpet, trombone, saxophone/oboe, double bass), LuPone demonst…
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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…
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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…
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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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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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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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Together with set designer Michael Yeargan, costume designer Catherine Zuber and choreographer Christopher Gattelli, Bartlett Sher has completely reimagined …
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“David Cameron, David Beckham, and Prince William walk into a hotel suite” could be the start of a truly cringe-worthy joke, but in The Three Lions, now play…
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Written by Robert Askins and directed by Moritz von Stuelpnagel, Hand To God plays like an obsidian black farce which turns on those stock elements of farce …
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Indeed, the most interesting thing about this reworking of the piece is that, while it may be called Gigi, and there is constant talk of, with and about her,…
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It’s great to see so many people of all ages enjoying and loving The Sound Of Music. There’s a magic about the Sound Of Music that defies explanation, genera…
Douglas Mayo
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Christopher Wheeldon's vision here, as director and choreographer, is remarkably detailed and endlessly lavish and ambitious. Without huge pre-built sets, Bo…
Stephen Collins
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Game Theory leaves one with far more questions than answers. Unfortunately, they tend to be about the form and structure of the show, far more than the subst…
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This is a play about the inequality women endure every day in almost every aspect of life, the way women treat women badly, viciously even, and the pains, pl…
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