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Casting Announced for Crushed Shells and Mud at Southwark Playhouse.
Douglas Mayo
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REVIEW: Song From Far Away, Young Vic ✭✭
Stephens shares writing credits for Song From Far Away with Mark Eitzel who provides the lyrics and music for a haunting, quite beautiful song, pieces of whi…
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Stephen Collins
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REVIEW: Dusty The Musical, Charing Cross Theatre ✭
Whilst there are a few moments of quality, Dusty’s hackneyed script and awkward staging means not even the son of a preacher man could save it. The show is n…
Danny Coleman-Cooke
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REVIEW: Hatched 'N' Dispatched, Park 90 ✭✭✭✭
This play can be seen as a saucy romp or as something rather more unexpectedly melancholy than that; but either way it is a thoroughly absorbing evening, an…
Tim Hochstrasser
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REVIEW: Absent, Shoreditch Town Hall ✭✭✭
Absent is a bit like a night in a Travelodge – it does the job and gives you an interesting night but you leave feeling like you could have had something a b…
Danny Coleman-Cooke
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REVIEW: The Jewish Legends, Gatehouse Upstairs ✭✭✭
In the bout of the two Jewish musicals revues, I’d have to give it to Never Succeed on points, due to its more inventive staging and varied songlist. The Jew…
Danny Coleman-Cooke
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REVIEW: Flare Path, Richmond Theatre (UK Tour) ✭✭✭
Flare Path centres on the fears and frustrations that derive from an interminable war, seen through the eyes of three married couples. Although its central l…
Matthew Lunn
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REVIEW: McQueen, Theatre Royal Haymarket ✭✭✭✭
The play triumphantly uncovers and re-asserts McQueen’s credo that design is at its best an act of love of the person – a summing up of who that man or woman…
Tim Hochstrasser
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REVIEW: The Medium and The Wanton Sublime, Arcola Theatre ✭✭✭✭
And so to the culmination of the contemporary opera section of the Grimeborn Festival, a double-bill in the form of Peter Maxwell Davies’ The Medium and The …
Tim Hochstrasser
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