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Review: Evita, Dominion Theatre

Apart from last fortnight’s excellent outing to King Charles III, I rarely venture into the West End. I kind of know what I’m going to get. And if I was trying to convert a theatre newbie to the power...

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Review: The Trials of Oscar Wilde, Trafalgar Studios

Just a hop, skip and a jump away from his bust on Adelaide Street, The Trials of Oscar Wilde at Trafalgar Studios is just that: an avid and vivid telling of one of London’s most famous and notorious...

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Review: Accolade, St James Theatre

I’ve got to be honest – I’ve never heard of Emlyn Williams. I’m not quite sure whether that’s embarrassing or not. He’s described in the programme as ‘the welsh Noël Coward’, which didn’t exactly have...

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Review: Sleeping Booty!, Leicester Square Theatre

What’s Cheryl Cole’s new name? Cheryl Verwotsit? Fillisomething? You can always judge a panto on its pop culture references. And there’s plenty shoehorned into Sleeping Booty! at the Leicester Square...

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Review: Bette and Joan: The Final Curtain, St James Theatre

“You should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good. Joan Crawford is dead. Good.” The tumultuous relationship between screen icons Bette Davis and Joan Crawford is as fascinating...

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Review: Walking the Tightrope: The tension between art and politics, Theatre...

As was possibly inevitably the case, a hell of a lot of questions were thrown at the audience at Walking the Tightrope: The tension between art and politics, questions that we may have heard many times...

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Review: Harvey, Theatre Royal Haymarket

I’m a little puzzled as to just why Harvey has been revived at the Theatre Royal Haymarket. It’s a sweet and gentle story, but it is also notable in its total lack of relevance or significance to a...

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Review: The Chair, Unicorn Theatre

I love the Unicorn Theatre. It is a space that has finely mastered a skill. A skill that theatre for young people does not mean theatre dumbed down. It is a venue that assumes a prior knowledge upon an...

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Review: American Buffalo, Wyndham’s Theatre

The collective echoes of King Charles III and A View from the Bridge still reverberate strongly around the walls of Wyndham’s Theatre: American Buffalo certainly has a big stage to fill. Yet this...

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Review: Bugsy Malone, Lyric Hammersmith

You’d have to be some Victor Meldrew-Ebenezer Scrooge hybrid (or perhaps The Guardian’s prominent theatre critic) not to absolutely adore Bugsy Malone at the Lyric Hammersmith. Sean Holmes’s much...

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