Review
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 modern life.
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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Royal Court’s Anatomy of a Suicide finds cast
Hattie Morahan, Paul Hilton and Kate O’Flynn are to lead the cast in Alice Birch’s new play, Anatomy of a Suicide, at the Royal Court.
Mark Ludmon
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REVIEW: Funny Girl, New Victoria Theatre Woking ✭✭✭✭✭
It was a delight to revisit Funny Girl tonight. It's a wonderfully rich evening in the theatre and the partnering of Barnes and Campbell is pure theatre magic.
Douglas Mayo
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REVIEW: The Braille Legacy, Charing Cross Theatre ✭✭
Poor translation, vague concepts and an undramatic source material all make for a dispiriting and slightly uncomfortable fare.
Sophie Adnitt
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Misc
Alice’s Adventures Underground Inspires Curious Bar
Curiously colour-changing drinks and other cocktails will be served up at a theatrical bar inspired by hit show Alice’s Adventures Underground at The Vaults.
Mark Ludmon
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REVIEW: Drowning On Dry Land, New Wimbledon Theatre Studio ✭✭✭✭✭
Drowning On Dry Land is one of Ayckbourn's most tonally surprising and unstable works; technically it is also one of his most sparingly and yet also elaborat…
Julian Eaves
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Cast to face jury in Lyric's Terror
Emma Fielding and Forbes Masson are to lead the cast of courtroom drama Terror at the Lyric Hammersmith where the audience decides on the verdict.
Mark Ludmon
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Cast Announced For UK Premiere Of New Musical Birds Of Paradise
Birds Of Paradise is a new musical with music by David Evans and Lyrics by Winnie Holzman, and book by Holzman and Evans. Birds Of Paradise will have its UK …
Douglas Mayo
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