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The latest theatre news, West End reviews, show guides, and behind-the-scenes features from British Theatre's editorial team.
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REVIEW: Coming Up, Watford Palace Theatre ✭✭✭
Coming Up is a play that tries to do many different things and scores more hits than misses. With some judicious editing, it could serve as one of the more i…
Danny Coleman-Cooke
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REVIEW: Close To You, Criterion Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭
Trying to highlight individual performances or individual songs is pointless, this is a show to be savoured as whole, not just once but many times.
Douglas Mayo
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REVIEW: Club Gelbe Stern, Laurie Beechman Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭
Now playing at the Laurie Beecham Theatre is a remarkable piece of musical theatre, Club Gelbe Stern, written by Alexis Fishman and James Miller, and directe…
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Stephen Collins
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REVIEW: Metamorphoses, Earl Haig Hall ✭✭✭✭✭
Metamorphoses plays through the rest of October, every Thursday to Sunday, and though Earl Haig Hall is in deepest darkest Crouch End, do not let the journey…
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REVIEW: Volpone, Brockley Jack ✭✭✭
Everyone involved in this production acted with commitment and a good sense of pace and projection within this intimate space, but the success of the whole r…
Tim Hochstrasser
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Let It Be UK Tour
The Let It Be UK Tour returns in 2018 bringing Beatlemania back to a theatre near you. Celebrate the music of The Beatles with a new updated version of the a…
Douglas Mayo
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REVIEW: The Merchant Of Venice, Ambassadors Theatre ✭✭✭
While the emotional wattage did not burn as brightly as it might, and while we were never really made to feel fully uncomfortable with either issues or text …
Tim Hochstrasser
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REVIEW: Amazing Grace, Nederlander Theatre ✭✭
While the tunes and harmonies for the new material might not be memorable, the orchestrations and playing is first rate. Kenny Seymour and Joseph Church, tog…
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Stephen Collins
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REVIEW: Romance Romance, Landor Theatre ✭✭✭✭
This is an intriguing and valuable revival with some very solid performances at its heart. I am not fully persuaded that this double-bill has earned a lastin…
Tim Hochstrasser
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REVIEW: Old Times, American Airlines Theatre ✭✭✭✭
Where Hodge does elect for difference is in the manner of playing. No low-key, slow boil quiet broiling here. No, the parts are played with vigour, brasher t…
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Stephen Collins
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REVIEW: Spring Awakening, Brooks Atkinson Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭
Quite simply, it is one of the most perfectly conceived, cast and executed productions of a musical on any stage anywhere in the world. It's shocking, brutal…
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Stephen Collins
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REVIEW: Roaring Trade, Park Theatre ✭✭✭
So for all the efforts of the actors to make their characters more rounded and sympathetic this play tells us more about the anger in the air after the event…
Tim Hochstrasser
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REVIEW: Thriller Live, Lyric Theatre ✭✭✭✭
The choreography is by far the strongest aspect of Thriller; it is inventive, exhilarating and almost exhausting to watch. It incorporates the traditional Ja…
Danny Coleman-Cooke
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