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REVIEW: Ragtime, Charing Cross Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭
The show has been seen in London several times recently, and it is clearly a work that repays revisitation, and reinterpretation. I will certainly be back to…
Julian Eaves
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REVIEW: From Ibiza To The Norfolk Broads, Waterloo East Theatre ✭✭
Bowie was a fascinating figure, with aspects of his work and image that make for rich pickings when it comes to creating a show. Unfortunately what From Ibiz…
Sophie Adnitt
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REVIEW: Hotel For Criminals, New Wimbledon Studio ✭✭✭✭✭
That such a heavyweight should be having his work showcased by such a (still) small company in a fringe studio says a lot about him and a lot about the venue…
Julian Eaves
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REVIEW: Jess And Joe Forever, Lakeside Theatre ✭✭✭✭
Bravo Zoe Cooper, you have written a memorable play, one of the best this year, that deserves the widest audience possible!
Paul T Davies
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The Glass Menagerie Comes To The Duke Of York's Theatre
Following the success of Harry Potter And The Cursed Child - Parts One and Two, director John Tiffany returns to the West End with his internationally acclai…
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REVIEW: Moby Dick The Musical, Union Theatre ✭✭✭
Andrew Wright’s production does what it can to make us concentrate on the show’s many felicities. However, it may take more than bracing direction and livel…
Julian Eaves
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REVIEW: Wonderful Town, Ye Olde Rose and Crowne Pub Theatre ✭✭✭✭
This is very New York. A constant hurly-burly of influences and crossed paths, with the players packed into the smallest space possible
Julian Eaves
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REVIEW: Musical Of The Year, Lost Theatre ✭✭✭✭
This is the funniest show of its kind since 'Forbidden Broadway'.
Julian Eaves
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REVIEW: Somewhere in England, New Wimbledon Studio ✭✭✭✭
This is the most important and exciting rediscovery of a ‘lost’ British musical since the 1982 King’s Head Theatre revival of Vivian Ellis’s ‘Mr Cinders’
Julian Eaves
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REVIEW: Ulysses' Homecoming, Hackney Empire ✭✭✭✭
This is an entertaining and skillfully staged production of one of Monteverdi’s most popular operas. Make sure you go and see it at a theatre near you; you’r…
Danny Coleman-Cooke
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REVIEW: The Dresser, Duke Of York's Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭
Sean Foley’s production of The Dresser is simply extraordinary. Ken Stott and Reece Shearsmith are outstanding as ‘Sir’ and Norman, whilst the supporting cas…
Matthew Lunn
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REVIEW: The Book Club, King's Head Theatre ✭✭✭
If I had been wearing a hat, I would have taken it off to Amanda Muggleton. Although I didn’t find the character to be particularly likeable, Muggleton’s ext…
Alexa Terry
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REVIEW: One Night In Miami, Donmar Warehouse ✭✭✭✭
These are men dancing on the edge of their own history, and the fact that we know their histories, (two of them killed by violence), makes the play highly po…
Paul T Davies
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REVIEW: Jekyll & Hyde and Nerve (Double Bill), Greenwich Theatre ✭✭✭
Brilliantly well-written dialogue is always great to hear, especially when delivered with cut-glass panache as by this super quartet: in addition to the auth…
Julian Eaves
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