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REVIEW: Girls, Soho Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭

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REVIEW: Girls, Soho Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭

Girls is confrontational without becoming prosecutorial, heartfelt without becoming unbelievable. With powerful writing and equally strong performances, Girl…

Sophie Adnitt

Sophie Adnitt

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REVIEW: The Libertine, Haymarket Theatre ✭✭✭

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REVIEW: The Libertine, Haymarket Theatre ✭✭✭

The Libertine is an enjoyable, but rather unfulfilling play. The Earl of Rochester is an intriguing figure, and Dominic Cooper’s is a witty and energetic por…

Matthew Lunn

Matthew Lunn

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Bowie Homage Comes To Waterloo East

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Bowie Homage Comes To Waterloo East

Adrian Berry's From Ibiza To The Norfolk Broads comes to the Waterloo East Theatre in October 2016. This celebration and homage to one of the greatest musica…

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Jest End Returns To Waterloo East

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Jest End Returns To Waterloo East

The hit comedy musical show exploring and 'exposing' the hits, flops and gossip of Theatreland, returns to Waterloo East Theatre after its sell-out season in…

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Jersey Boys London To Close 26 March 2017

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Jersey Boys London To Close 26 March 2017

After nine amazing years in London, producers have announced that Jersey Boys will close at the Piccadilly Theatre on Sunday 26 March 2017. They have also a…

Douglas Mayo

Douglas Mayo

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REVIEW: Big Shot, London Irish Centre ✭✭✭

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REVIEW: Big Shot, London Irish Centre ✭✭✭

There really is no infrastructure in Ireland for making work of this kind, which makes the achievement all the more striking. Everyone has another job, or tw…

Julian Eaves

Julian Eaves

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REVIEW: Out There, Union Theatre ✭✭✭✭

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REVIEW: Out There, Union Theatre ✭✭✭✭

Nevertheless, this is another creditable creation from the production stables of Sasha Regan and underlines her continuing commitment to the development of n…

Julian Eaves

Julian Eaves

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REVIEW: Kenny Morgan, Arcola Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭

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REVIEW: Kenny Morgan, Arcola Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭

It’s a little ironic that, in a time of cross gender, age and ethnic blind casting, multi-media work and when the theatre is trying to find the next big thin…

Paul T Davies

Paul T Davies

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REVIEW: That Man, Hippodrome Casino ✭✭✭✭

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REVIEW: That Man, Hippodrome Casino ✭✭✭✭

If anyone loves the music of Caro Emerald, then they’ll love this feast of her songs presented in a dramatic context. If anyone does not know her music, or …

Julian Eaves

Julian Eaves

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REVIEW:- John and Jen, Union Theatre ✭✭✭✭

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REVIEW:- John and Jen, Union Theatre ✭✭✭✭

Added to this is the factor of Lippa’s music and Greenwald’s lyrics (they share credits for the book). Both can be bright, incisive, strongly characterised …

Julian Eaves

Julian Eaves

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Henry V Tour

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Henry V Tour

Returning for its fourth year to delight audiences around the UK, Antic Disposition’s critically-acclaimed production of Shakespeare’s Henry V will embark on…

Douglas Mayo

Douglas Mayo

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REVIEW: Torn Apart, Theatre N16 ✭✭✭✭

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REVIEW: Torn Apart, Theatre N16 ✭✭✭✭

There is sometimes a rawness to the action, an absence of polish, but it is always convincing and involving: in fact, the wonderful paradox here is that, as …

Julian Eaves

Julian Eaves

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F*cking Men Transfer To The Vaults

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F*cking Men Transfer To The Vaults

Following three sell-out, critically acclaimed runs both at The Edinburgh Fringe and in London, The King's Head Theatre production of F*cking Men will transf…

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