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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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REVIEW: Duncton Wood, Union Theatre ✭✭✭✭
Michael Strassen's richly detailed, splendidly cast, and lovingly staged premiere production of Duncton Wood (music and lyrics from Mark Carroll, book by Jam…
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Stephen Collins
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REVIEW: James Freedman - Man Of Steal, Trafalgar Studios 1 ✭✭✭✭
It is always fantastic to see original theatre in London and Man of Steal certainly breaks new ground in putting on a public safety lecture with a difference…
Danny Coleman-Cooke
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REVIEW: Jason Robert Brown In Concert, Royal Festival Hall ✭✭✭✭
The unstoppable, extraordinary Cynthia Erivo proved, twice, what a potent combination Brown's music and lyrics can be in the hands of a singer whose voice ca…
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Stephen Collins
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REVIEW: Just Jim Dale, Vaudeville Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭
It is genuinely delightful to be able to report that anyone, child, adult, theatre sceptic or theatre lover, should have no hesitation in snaffling a ticket …
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Stephen Collins
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REVIEW: As You Like It, Shakespeare's Globe ✭✭✭
Blanche McIntyre, whose revival of As You Like It now at the Globe, uses every trick in the book to make Shakespeare's play clear (it is, very), risqué (it i…
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Stephen Collins
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REVIEW: Mess, Albany Theatre ✭✭✭✭
Caroline Horton’s Mess is probably the most honest portrayal of an eating disorder that one can find on stage.
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REVIEW: The Beaux' Stratagem, Olivier Theatre ✭✭✭
Of all the cast, it is the gifted Susannah Fielding who comes closest to the right style of acting. She really is a tremendous performer, winning in her wins…
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Stephen Collins
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REVIEW: Sense Of An Ending, Theatre 503 ✭✭✭✭
As this fine play moved towards its nuanced ending I could not help making a comparison with an earlier work that placed nuns in a setting of impossible choi…
Tim Hochstrasser
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