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REVIEW: Hamilton, Victoria Palace Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭

Lin-Manuel's Hamilton is nothing short of brilliant. It's intelligent, entertaining, and is bringing an entirely new audience to musical theatre. Believe the…

Douglas Mayo

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REVIEW: Goosed, Royal Vauxhall Tavern ✭✭✭✭

Goosed is full of all the broad comedy, saucy innuendo, silliness and audience interaction that families relish in a festive panto but this is definitely not…

Mark Ludmon

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REVIEW: The Grinning Man, Trafalgar Studios 1 ✭✭✭✭✭

Bristol Old Vic’s production will probably always stand in the shadow of the world conquering, barricade storming Les Misrables, but The Grinning Man is a ma…

Paul T Davies

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REVIEW: Belleville, Donmar Warehouse ✭✭✭✭

The Donmar is the perfect venue for a tense thriller like Belleville, a claustrophobic chamber piece of a thriller that delivers on so many levels.

Paul T Davies

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REVIEW: Top Hat, Upstairs at the Gathouse ✭✭✭✭✭

Heaven! This is heaven! Julian Eaves reviews Irving Berlin's Top Hat the musical Upstairs at The Gatehouse starring Joanna Clifton and Joshua Lay. Book Now!

Julian Eaves

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Cast announced for new James Graham play at Hull Truck

The cast has been announced for a new play by James Graham, based on Hull's UK City of Culture festival.

Mark Ludmon

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REVIEW: Pinocchio, National Theatre ✭✭✭

Full marks to the National for having a jolly good go with this attempt; it may yet be made to work as well as the show clearly intends to. But more work it…

Julian Eaves

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REVIEW: Misalliance, Orange Tree Theatre ✭✭✭✭

Mark Ludmon reviews the sparkling new production of Shaw's lesser-known play Misalliance at the Orange Tree Theatre

Mark Ludmon

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REVIEW: A Christmas Carol, Lyceum Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭

Julian Eaves

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REVIEW: Cell Mates, Hampstead Theatre ✭✭✭

Paul T Davies

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REVIEW: The Secret Seven, Storyhouse Chester ✭✭✭✭✭

The Secret Seven is terrific entertainment for children and adults alike. A must-see over the festive period!

REVIEW: La Boheme, Trafalgar Studios ✭✭✭✭✭

If you have ever yearned to be a starving artist in a garret, this could well be the production to convince you it’s a good idea. Unmissable!

Paul T Davies

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REVIEW: Daisy Pulls It Off, Park Theatre ✭✭✭✭

While it may poke fun at these values, Daisy Pulls It Off at the Park Theatre doesn’t pretend to be anything other than a lot of jolly good fun.

Mark Ludmon

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REVIEW: The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe, West Yorkshire Playhouse ✭✭✭✭✭

Jonathan Hall

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Jim Broadbent stars in new Martin McDonagh play at Bridge Theatre

The Bridge Theatre is to premiere a new playA Very Very Very Dark Matter by Martin McDonagh next autumn with a cast led by Jim Broadbent.

Douglas Mayo

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REVIEW: The Barricade Boys, The Other Palace ✭✭✭✭✭

Julian Eaves

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National Theatre's Beginning Recieves West End Transfer

Following a critically acclaimed, sold-out season at the National Theatre, David Eldridge's anti-romance Beginning will transfer to the Ambassadors Theatre

Douglas Mayo

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Regent's Park Open Air Theatre Announce 2018 Season

Douglas Mayo

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FIRST LOOK: The Rat Pack takeover the Theatre Royal Haymarket

Douglas Mayo

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FIRST LOOK: Hamilton starts previews at the Victoria Palace Theatre

Douglas Mayo

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REVIEW: A Christmas Carol, Old Vic Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭

Dizzyingly joyful, expertly crafted and with a smart social conscience, it’s safe to say that this is the Carol to see this Christmas.

Sophie Adnitt

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REVIEW: The Woman In White, Charing Cross Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭

Julian Eaves

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REVIEW: Dear Brutus, Southwark Playhouse ✭✭✭✭

With its mixture of magic and comedy, this is an assured revival that offers some entertaining escapism which, although set at midsummer, is a perfect antido…

Mark Ludmon

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Bat Out Of Hell to play Dominion Theatre London in 2018

Douglas Mayo

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FIRST LOOK: The Woman In White at Charing Cross Theatre

Douglas Mayo

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REVIEW: Soul Holiday. Marisha Wallace Live, Charing Cross Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭

It's a long way from Eggie White & London is all the richer for having this diva, no strike that, this dame in the West End. Marisha Wallace is A class act!

Douglas Mayo

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FIRST LOOK: Pinocchio at the National Theatre

Douglas Mayo

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REVIEW: Animus, Laban Theatre

Julian Eaves reviews new musical Animus by Michael Webborn and Daniel Finn performed by students at Trinity Laban.

Julian Eaves

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REVIEW: Goats, Royal Court Theatre ✭✭

It’s refreshing to go to something without such barefaced moralising but I can’t say I really enjoyed it. No kidding.

Helena Payne

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Doodle - A comedy World War II musical comes to Waterloo East

Doodle a new comedy World War 2 musical by Jonathan Kydd and Andy Street comes to Waterloo East Theatre in January 2018. Book Now!

Douglas Mayo

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Penelope Wilton to lead cast of Old Vic’s Fanny and Alexander

Casting has been announced for the stage adaptation of Ingmar Bergman’s classic film Fanny and Alexander at the Old Vic, led by Penelope Wilton. Book Now!

Mark Ludmon

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West End transfer for Chichester production of James Graham’s Quiz

The acclaimed Chichester Festival Theatre production of Quiz is to become the latest play by James Graham to transfer to London.

Mark Ludmon

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Full casting announced for Girl From The North Country

Full casting has been announced for Bob Dylan and Conor McPherson's musical Girl From The North Country which transfers to the Noel Coward Theatre.

Douglas Mayo

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REVIEW: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Mercury Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs at the Mercury Theatre Colchester will lift your spirits and send you out into the cold air feeling like a summer’s day!

Paul T Davies

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Six The Musical announces Cast and Creatives

Douglas Mayo

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REVIEW: The Passing Of The Third Floor Back, Finborough Theatre ✭✭✭✭

Mark Ludmon reviews Jerome K Jerome's The Passing Of The Third Floor Back now playing at the Finborough Theatre

Mark Ludmon

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REVIEW: The Tin Drum, West Yorkshire Playhouse ✭✭✭✭

Jonathan Hall

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REVIEW: Red Riding Hood, New Wolsey Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭

if you weren’t in a festive mood before you entered the theatre, I guarantee you will be when you leave! A howling success!

Paul T Davies

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Lucy O'Byrne and Neil McDermott lead 2018 The Sound Of Music UK Tour

Lucy O'Byrne and Neil McDermott will lead The Sound of Music UK Tour in 2018 as Maria and Captain Von Trapp. Book Now!

Douglas Mayo

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Samantha Barks to star in Pretty Woman the musical on Broadway

Samantha Barks is to star in the musical stage adaptation of the hit film Pretty Woman as Vivian when it opens on Broadway in 2018.

Douglas Mayo

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Theatre Royal Plymouth brings new plays to London

A mini-season of plays that had their UK premieres at The Drum at Theatre Royal Plymouth is to run in repertoire at London’s Southwark Playhouse from January.

Mark Ludmon

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REVIEW: Everybody's Talking About Jamie, Apollo Theatre London ✭✭✭✭✭

Mark Ludmon is wowed by exuberant new musical Everybody's Talking About Jamie at Apollo Theatre. Book now!

Mark Ludmon

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REVIEW: Privates On Parade, Union Theatre ✭✭✭✭

As Privates On Parade celebrates its 40th anniversary, this brilliantly confidant and assured play has lost none of its relevance.

Julian Eaves

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REVIEW: Fiver the musical, Crazy Coqs at Brasserie Zedel ✭✭✭✭

The onward march of the Crazy Coqs is pioneering new musical theatre writing continues with Fiver an utterly delicious score by new writers of the book, musi…

Julian Eaves

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Michael Grandage returns to the West End in 2018

The Michael Grandage Company is to return to the West End in 2018 with two new productions – Red by John Logan and The Lieutenant of Inishmore by Martin McDo…

Douglas Mayo

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Kathleen Turner Finding My Voice UK Tour - Book Now!

Two-time Tony Award nominee and two-time Golden Globe Award winner Kathleen Turner brings her one woman show Finding My Voice to London.

Douglas Mayo

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FIRST LOOK: Jack and the Beanstalk at Lyric Hammersmith

Douglas Mayo

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Palace Theatre Manchester

The Palace Theatre Manchester is one of the city's foremost entertainment venues. Find out what's on at the Palace Theatre Manchester

Douglas Mayo

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Final Casting Announced for London Musical Theatre Orchestra's A Christmas Carol

The London Musical Theatre Orchestra have announced full casting for their spectacular concert version of A Christmas Carol at the Lyceum Theatre London

Douglas Mayo

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