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REVIEW: Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf, Harold Pinter Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭
James Macdonald's production of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is a breathtaking depiction of human misery peeled back, with four wonderful performances at …
Matthew Lunn
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REVIEW: The Miser, Garrick Theatre ✭✭✭✭
The laughs come thick and fast through the ensuing chaos, and with some stand out comedic performances, it seems like there’s still plenty of life in Molière…
Sophie Adnitt
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REVIEW: Mamma Mia!, Novello Theatre ✭✭✭✭
Mamma Mia! remains an incredibly fun night at the theatre and it's still difficult to believe that the show's score of timeless pop was not purpose written f…
Douglas Mayo
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REVIEW: My Country - A Work In Progress, National Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭
One of the best elements of the evening was us, the audience, the British, still laughing at ourselves and appreciating the irony of the lies politicians spe…
Paul T Davies
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REVIEW: Southern Baptist Sissies, Above The Stag ✭✭✭
There's lots of gentle humour, gentle pathos, gentle social critique, and a gently uplifting 'message' to go away with at the end.
Julian Eaves
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REVIEW: Bang Bang, Mercury Theatre ✭✭
It hasn’t helped this production also that current West End farce mega-hit The Play That Goes Wrong visited this venue just a few weeks ago, underlining furt…
Paul T Davies
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REVIEW: Romeo and Juliet, West Yorkshire Playhouse ✭✭✭✭
At the interval and the end- especially at the end- the audience, which included a large element of young people, erupted with a spontaneous cheering, whoopi…
Jonathan Hall
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REVIEW: In Search Of England, Mercury Theatre ✭✭✭✭
This is a play that never feels the need to shout or become hysterical, yet brims with anger, passion and love, and tunes in with our own questioning of nati…
Paul T Davies
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REVIEW: Rent, New Victoria Theatre Woking ✭✭✭✭✭
This incredible re-telling of La Boheme still speaks to audiences of all ages. I can safely say that I have never seen an audience react to a tour the way th…
Douglas Mayo
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REVIEW: The Diary Of A Teenage Girl, Southwark Playhouse ✭✭✭
It's very pleasant, often amusing, and if it doesn't plumb any depths in its conventional story of growing up.
Julian Eaves
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REVIEW: Murder For Two, The Other Palace Studio ✭✭✭✭
The great, central achievement of this production is in the two-handed coup of Jeremy Legat and Ed MacArthur's dazzling performance as duetting singer-actor-…
Julian Eaves
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REVIEW: Othello, Sam Wannamaker Playhouse ✭✭✭
Ellen McDougall’s Othello is a very solid production, with excellent performances and a number of intriguing original motifs. Whilst these did not all work f…
Matthew Lunn
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REVIEW: The Wedding Singer, Sunderland Empire ✭✭✭✭✭
When The Wedding Singer comes to town, dig out your best eighties leftovers and prepare for a great night out. If you weren’t around in the eighties go along…
Douglas Mayo
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REVIEW: Hamlet, Almeida Theatre ✭✭✭✭
Alas poor Sherlock, we know it well. Even in the opening scenes of this ingenious production, it was clear that Andrew Scott would more than match his TV co-…
Danny Coleman-Cooke
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REVIEW: Worst Wedding Ever, New Wolsey Theatre ✭✭✭
This piece isn’t going to change the face of theatre, but it delivers what it is required to do, and is as entertaining as the excellent wedding band that oc…
Paul T Davies
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REVIEW: Swifties, TheatreN16 ✭✭
It's a very clever idea, and writer Tom Stenton is to be congratulated for having formulated it and brought it thus far along the road to taking theatrical s…
Julian Eaves
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REVIEW: Ugly Lies The Bone, National Theatre ✭✭✭
Overall, despite a good cast and production values, the play doesn’t reach the heights it could have.
Paul T Davies
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