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Review: THE FAMOUS FIVE: A NEW MUSICAL, Chichester Festival Theatre
A show full of good songs, fine singing and engaging characters doesn't quite live up to the sum of its parts...
Review: DIDO AND AENEAS, Theatre Royal Bath
It's a double first at Theatre Royal Bath with Henry Purcell's Dido and Aeneas. Regarded as England's first opera when initially performed around 1688, it's also the first opera to be performed in the intimate Ustinov Studio....
Review: GOOD LUCK, STUDIO, Salisbury Playhouse
Mischief's new catastrophe comedy, Good Luck, Studio, goes very wrong - but perhaps not in the way the Mischief team intended....
Review: KINKY BOOTS, Queen's Theatre, Hornchurch
If the show lacks a little in power having been pared back, many more people will have a chance to enjoy a super show...
Review: JEKYLL & HYDE, Reading Rep Theatre
Audrey Brisson is a quirky intrigue at 4’10”. With little capacity to seem towering and imposing, Brisson has instead perfected the subtleties that are available to her, her ever widening eyes and steadily creeping sneer betray volumes about the conflict raging within the respectable Victorian g...
Review: O, ISLAND!, The Other Place, Royal Shakespeare Theatre
Nina Segal's new play is hamstrung by an old set up....
Review: DREAMGIRLS, King's Theatre, Glasgow
What did our critic think of DREAMGIRLS at King's Theatre, Glasgow?...
Review: TRIO, New Wolsey Theatre
At its core, Trio’s biggest wound is a self-inflicted one. It undercuts its own capacity for dramatic impact due to its structure, with each character taking turns to discuss the events of their tumultuous shared history in the past tense, emotionally removed from each historic detail and inherent...
Review: THE WELLSPRING. Salisbury Playhouse
The Wellspring is a new father and son two-hander by award-winning playwright Barney Norris (Visitors, Eventide, Nightfall) and novelist (Five Rivers Met on a Wooded Plain, Undercurrent); and his father - pianist, composer and broadcaster David Owen Norris....
Review: GODS OF THE GAME, Grange Park Opera
Football opera land perfectly between the Women's Euros and the Men's World Cup finding plenty of common ground to delight fans of both art forms...
Review: SPIKE, Salisbury Playhouse
In a fabulously fast-paced and funny tribute to Spike Milligan, writers Ian Hislop and Nick Newman affectionately convey how the extraordinary Anglo-Irishman creates The Goon Show....
Review: RAMBERT DANCE IN PEAKY BLINDERS: THE REDEMPTION OF THOMAS SHELBY, Birmingham Hippodrome
The sinister chords of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds' 'Red Right Hand' ring out as Tommy Shelby stands, flanked by family members, with the light glinting from the razor blade sewn into his wool tweed cap. It's a scene familiar to any fan of the global hit TV show Peaky Blinders. But something's diffe...
Review: WHEN DARKNESS FALLS, Salisbury Playhouse
A debate about folklore versus fact, and whether history is just 'a collection of lies we've decided upon'. Are ghost stories a projection of our fears? Who do you believe in the end?...
Review: SUGAR BABY, Alphabetti Theatre
Sugar Baby made its debut at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2017. A compelling one-man play by Alan Harris, this new production directed by Natasha Haws is a wonderfully wild ride....
Review: THE NARCISSIST, Chichester Festival Theatre
Christopher Shinn's play brims with interesting politics but is too often bogged down in overly-familiar personal issues...
Review: INTO THE WOODS, Theatre Royal Bath
A terrifically trippy child's world on speed in a Victorian toy theatre within a theatre, conjured up by inventive 81-year-old Gilliam, and his co-director and choreographer, Leah Hausman....
Review: ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL, Royal Shakespeare Theatre
Not an easy play to watch, but a fascinating analysis of some of humanity's darker corners...
Review: PHAEDRA/MINOTAUR, Theatre Royal Bath
They say good things come in small packages. This adage certainly applies to Theatre Royal Bath’s larger-than-life double bill of Benjamin Britten’s Phaedra and newly commissioned ballet, Minotaur, in the diminutive Ustinov Studio....
Review: IDENTICAL, Nottingham Playhouse
From Erich Kastner's classic 1949 novel, to the 1961 movie starring Hayley Mills and the 1998 remake featuring Lindsay Lohan, The Parent Trap has been delighting families for generations. Its newest incarnation comes in the form of this charming new musical, produced by Kenny Wax and directed by Tre...
Review: BUGSY MALONE, Birmingham Repertory Theatre
It's Prohibition-era New York, but not as you know it. The speakeasies and gang tensions are present and correct, but the mobsters and showgirls look like children, and the machine guns fire cream instead of bullets....
Review: BILLY ELLIOT THE MUSICAL, Leicester Curve
Six years after it closed in the West End, the first new staging of Billy Elliot The Musical has opened at the Leicester Curve, made possible by liaison with the original filmmakers. Though it is a bold departure in many ways from the beloved original production, its story endures and continues to r...
Review: ESTELLA, Trinity Theatre, Tunbridge Wells
Charles Dickens' novels are filled to the brim with characters who capture different elements of the human condition - evil and good and, crucially, plenty in-between. Perhaps the most fascinating of them all - at least she was to me when first I read Great Expectations in my mid-20s - is Estella, P...
BWW Review: LES MISERABLES, Bristol Hippodrome
It’s tough to keep a musical juggernaut like Les Misérables going. It’s even tougher to keep it feeling fresh, night after night for well over 35 years. Where others have faltered, Les Misérables has kept marching on to its own revolutionary drum beat. ...
Review: BUGSY MALONE, Theatre Royal Bath
A delightfully entertaining performance full of energy and talented young stars....
Review: RICHARD III, Royal Shakespeare Theatre
Gregory Doran brings the RSC's decade long History cycle to its conclusion with a worthy, if wordy, Richard III...
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The 1960s Variety Talent Show with The Zoots The Princess Theatre and Arts Centre (9/12-9/12) |
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CRUCIFIED BARBARA downstairs at The Dome - London The Dome (11/07-11/07) |
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Norwich Comedy Garden: Sara Pascoe & David O''Doherty Chapelfield Gardens (7/04-7/04) |
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SocAfro Carnival Brunch and Party The Stage Door (6/06-6/07) |
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The Little Mermaid Greenwich Theatre (8/07-8/23) |
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Flocksteady Bleats The Music Baa (8/21-8/23) |
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Moulin Rouge! The Musical Liverpool Empire Theatre (7/02-8/08) |
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Laura Veirs at EartH - London EartH (Evolutionary Arts Hackney) (9/16-9/16) |
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Burn the Floor: Supernova Marlowe Theatre (6/26-6/26) |
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It Comes in Waves Sheringham Little Theatre (7/03-7/03) |
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