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REVIEW: Bubble Boy, Original Cast Recording ✭✭✭✭✭
It's a cast recording of a show that I can't wait to see. I'm sure I won't be alone in that feeling once the whole world hears the story of Bubble Boy!
Douglas Mayo
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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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INTERVIEW: Playwright Inua Ellams - Barber Shop Chronicles
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REVIEW: Yank!, Charing Cross Theatre ✭✭✭✭
Yank is an accomplished, tightly paced show with a flawless cast led by Andy Coxon as macho Mitch, with matinee idol good looks
Mark Ludmon
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Ovalhouse recieves £3million Arts Council Grant
The Arts Council has announced that they will confirm an award for a total of £3million to be invested in the new Ovalhouse Theatre
Douglas Mayo
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FIRST LOOK: Simon-Anthony Rhoden and Verity Rushworth join cast of Kinky Boots
Douglas Mayo
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Glorious new role for Simon Shepherd
Simon Shepherd has joined the cast of Frinton Summer Theatre's revival of Peter Quilter's comedy Glorious! about Florence Foster Jenkins.
Mark Ludmon
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LISTEN: First song from Nativity the musical
Producers of Nativity the musical released an exclusive track on Elaine Paige's BBC radio programme. Have a listen and let us know what you think.
Douglas Mayo
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REVIEW: The Wind In The Willows, Original Cast Recording ✭✭✭✭✭
George Stiles and Anthony Drewe just keep getting better and better with each show they write. They have successfully encapsulated Grahame’s classic characte…
Douglas Mayo
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Sarah Milton's Tumble Tuck comes to Edinburgh Festival
Tumble Tuck, written by Sarah Milton presented by BackHere! Theatre, tells the story of a young woman struggling to accept herself and realise her strength.
Douglas Mayo
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Grimy drama Trashed comes to Edinburgh Festival 2017
Trashed is a grimy, booze-fuelled sucker punch of a play, bound to make you laugh until you cry.
Douglas Mayo
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Peter Rabbit and Jemima Puddle-Duck head to Edinburgh
This August, The Tales of Peter Rabbit and Jemima Puddle-Duck, will be enthralling children at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Douglas Mayo
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REVIEW: He Shoots He Scores, Above The Stag Theatre ✭✭✭✭
We have come to rely on Above The Stag to supply to us, it is high-quality homoerotic titillation with a chaser of moral uplift and this show is no exception
Julian Eaves
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Dance Opera and comedy at forefront of Storyhouse Spring Season 2018
Douglas Mayo
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REVIEW: The Scar Test, Soho Theatre ✭✭✭
The Scar Test is a striking piece, with deeply unsettling moments that will remain with the audience for a long time afterwards.
Sophie Adnitt
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REVIEW: King Kong - A Comedy, The Vaults ✭✭✭✭
There are moments when we believe we are in fact watching The Marx Brothers at work, or following an off-cut from ‘Hellzapoppin’.
Julian Eaves
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REVIEW: Instructions for American Servicemen in Britain, Jermyn St Theatre ✭✭✭✭
A fond and affectionate parody, Instructions for American Servicemen in Britain guarantees laughs and nostalgia in spades.
Sophie Adnitt
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Sam Goodburn brings lo-fi circus show Dumbstruck to Edinburgh
Dumbstruck, a world premiere by multi-award-winning performer Sam Goodburn comes to Underbelly as part of the Edinburgh Festival.
Douglas Mayo
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Actors, Mimes and Musicians look at The Nature Of Forgetting
Theatre Re’s The Nature of Forgetting is a powerful, explosive and joyous piece about what is left when memory and recollection are gone.
Douglas Mayo
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Tamar Broadbent to Get Ugly at Edinburgh Festival
Fresh from a five-star-sell-out run in 2016 and a Best Comedy Award-nominated tour of Australia, Tamara returns to the Edinburgh Festival with Get Ugly.
Douglas Mayo
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The B*easts comes to the Edinburgh Festival
In The B*easts, BAFTA award-winning actress Monica Dolan explores how far one mum will go to put what her child wants first.
Douglas Mayo
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Sara Juli's Tense Vagina exposes motherhood taboos
Sara Juli’s Tense Vagina: an actual diagnosis is about motherhood - its beauty, challenges, isolation, comedy and influence on the human experience.
Douglas Mayo
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