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REVIEW: The Wipers Times, New Wolsey Theatre Ipswich ✭✭✭

Falling far short of the biting satire of Oh What A Lovely War and Blackadder Goes Forth, the play is an effective tribute to an extraordinary publication, a…

Paul T Davies

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REVIEW: Side Show, Southwark Playhouse ✭✭✭✭✭

Hopefully, this will be the first of many productions of Side Show here in the UK, although I doubt any will match the talents involved here or the transcend…

Douglas Mayo

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Cirque Du Soleil Varekai UK Tour

Sheena Easton To Star In 42nd Street

REVIEW: Dead Funny, Vaudeville Theatre ✭✭✭✭

Johnson’s writing is complex and masterful, switching frequently and seamlessly between light and shade. The jokes hit the mark and are well timed, whilst ma…

Danny Coleman-Cooke

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Christina Bianco Celebrates Christmas At Charing Cross Theatre

The John Wilson Orchestra UK Tour

David Tennant To Star In Don Juan In Soho

Invincible UK Tour

Douglas Mayo

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REVIEW: Ordinary Days, Hen and Chickens Theatre ✭✭✭

Julian Eaves

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Saving Jason Premieres At Park Theatre

FIRST LOOK: The Last Five Years at St James Theatre

Tom Stoppard's Travesties Transfers To Apollo Theatre

Derren Brown Goes Underground At Charing Cross Theatre

Douglas Mayo

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REVIEW: Lunatic, TheatreN16 ✭

Regretfully, I have to note that I personally didn’t find any work of that quality in this particular offering.

Julian Eaves

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The Old Vic 2017 Season will feature Daniel Radcliffe

Douglas Mayo

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REVIEW: The Entertainer, Garrick Theatre ✭✭✭✭

The Entertainer’, a brilliantly performed play paralleling the breakdown of the British Empire and the decline of music hall, which concludes Kenneth Branagh…

Alexa Terry

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REVIEW: Fiona Jane Weston ... And West End Friends, Phoenix Artists Club

In miniature, a marvelous insight into the life and work of artists in musical theatre, with something a little bit different about it, drawing a nice crowd,…

Julian Eaves

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VIDEO: Dreamgirls in Rehearsals

Douglas Mayo

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REVIEW: Sweeney Todd, Mercury Theatre Colchester ✭✭✭✭✭

Residents of Colchester are lucky to have on their doorsteps a production that punches above its regional theatre weight, and lovers of the musical would do …

Paul T Davies

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Mel Brooks' Young Frankenstein To Open In West End

REVIEW: Skin A Cat, The Bunker ✭✭✭✭

There is a lot, in fact, in the writing - and delivery - that reminds one of the best female stand-up comedy, and the audience here seems to be very like the…

Julian Eaves

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REVIEW: The Hotel Cerise, Theatre Royal Stratford East ✭✭✭✭

This is a remarkable and magnificent work, rich in detail and meaning, and - as we approach another decisive moment in the US (and therefore also global) his…

Julian Eaves

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FIRST LOOK: The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide to Capitalism and Socialism at Hampstead Theatre

SHOW OF THE MONTH: The Bodyguard - Dominion Theatre - Save up to 53%

FIRST LOOK: Side Show at Southwark Playhouse

Damian Lewis Returns To the West End in Edward Albee Classic

Douglas Mayo

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After October Returns After Eighty Years

Further Casting Announced For Menier's She Loves Me

May and Ellis Cancel Christmas Concert Dates

Arthur Miller's The Crucible UK Tour

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…

Miss Saigon UK Tour

Douglas Mayo

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VIDEO: Alfie Boe and Michaell Ball Music Video Released

Douglas Mayo

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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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Sir Cameron Mackintosh Gets Impromptu Birthday Surprise

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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Dreamboats and Petticoats UK Tour

Douglas Mayo

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London Production Of Hamilton To Hold Open Auditions