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Review: SOPHIE DUKER: BUT DADDY I LOVE HER, Soho Theatre
Sophie Duker: But Daddy I Love Her starts on a high, with music blasting and the lights flashing as Duker jumps into the audience, running around and dancing her heart out, encouraging the crowd to cheer even more for her. Duker then jumps back on stage and, with a grin, tells us the one thing we ne...
Review: GIRLS DON'T PLAY GUITARS, Liverpool's Royal Court
Following a critically acclaimed run in 2019, Girls Don’t Play Guitars is back at Liverpool’s Royal Court.
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Review: BELLRINGERS, Hampstead Theatre
Daisy Hall’s debut is already a decorated piece of writing, having been a finalist for the Women’s Prize for Playwriting last year and a huge success at the latest edition of the Edinburgh Fringe. It’s a play of tender humanity. The very generous setting and chatty script offers an almost Beck...
Review Roundup: Did Mark Rylance and J. Smith-Cameron Impress in JUNO AND THE PAYCOCK?
Tony award-nominee J. Smith-Cameron stars as Juno Boyle opposite Mark Rylance as ‘Captain’ Jack Boyle in a highly anticipated new production of Juno and the Paycock, Seán O’Casey's timeless masterpiece, directed by Tony and Olivier award-winner Matthew Warchus. So what did the critics th...
Review: JUNO AND THE PAYCOCK, Gielgud Theatre
A cost of living crisis, people being fit to work but choosing not to, poverty, nationalism and women's control of their own bodies. Seán O'Casey's Juno and the Paycock may have first been performed at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin in 1924, but a century later, his tragicomedy resonates mor...
Review: FAMEHUNGRY, The Place
In 70 minutes, Louise Orwin's performance piece aims to successfully interrogate the fastest growing and one of the most popular social media platforms in the world; Tik Tok. Is it perfect? No. But her form is smart, her commentary is sharp, and she’s a joyous performer....
Review: LEAR, Barbican
A must for Shakespeare completionists. Read our critic's take.
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Review: NOWHERE, Battersea Arts Centre
The world is a dark place. Every day, we seem to edge closer to the start of another global conflict. Nowhere is safe. War and destruction have become steady protagonists on our television screens, to the point where we’re growing increasingly desensitised to violence.
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Review: FOREVERLAND, Southwark Playhouse
Would you undergo a procedure that would easily and painlessly grant you to live eternally? Writer Emma Hemingford theorises a future where the extension of life has become as normal as getting Botox. But, unlike plastic surgery, the practice raises ethical and social issues. The benefits span protr...
Review: BERYL COOK: A PRIVATE VIEW, Finborough Theatre
Part-nostalgia, part-reclaiming under-represented lives, this one-woman show, transferring from Edinburgh, is a delight...
Review: THE RIVER, Greenwich Theatre
I think Jez Butterworth must love fishing, as his 2012 play The River spends quite a lot of the time talking about the intricacies of the pastime. If one doesn't partake it can make the text a little monotonous at times…but of course there's more to take from the overall experience.
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Review: ONE OF THE BOYS, The Playground Theatre
Tim Edge’s sophomore project is described as a nail-biting show that uncovers the dark truths of vicious competition and ferocious career moves. The production over-promises and under-delivers. It’s not only plagued by a debilitating case of women-written-by-a-man, it’s also predictable and fo...
Review: WHITE RABBIT RED RABBIT, @sohoplace
Beyond its simple gimmick, White Rabbit Red Rabbit remains a refreshingly authentic piece of theatre in a time when even the most improvised works have an element of rehearsal....
Review: BIRDSONG, Richmond Theatre
Touring production will pull in fans of the book, but needs to find something more to say if it is to convert those new to the story. See what our critic thought of the production. ...
Review: INCARNATION - MARIA CARUSO, Theatre Royal Drury Lane
One person shows aren't easy things to do, and the Theatre Royal Drury Lane is a big space to fill, so Maria Caruso has all the cards stacked against her for her new solo performance Incarnation.
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Review: PORT CITY SIGNATURE, The Hope Theatre
**** PORT CITY SIGNATURE at The Hope Theatre is a timeless, tense and tenacious tale of seaside noir with a strong cast and playful thrills
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Review: ONE SMALL STEP, Charing Cross Theatre
Bold Anglo-Japanese production fizzles out when it needs to take off like a rocket writes BWW's critic.
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Review: A TUPPERWARE OF ASHES, National Theatre
'The tempest in my mind doth from my senses take all feeling else, save what beats there. Filial ingratitude!' Queenie Mukherjee has always been the Bengali matriarch to end all Bengali matriarchs, except recently her children have started to notice the odd slip: a burnt pan here, a wrong date there...
Review: STONES IN HIS POCKETS, Salisbury Playhouse
The Irish are renowned for good story telling. From James Joyce, Oscar Wilde, Samuel Beckett and George Bernard Shaw, to simply a good yarn over a pint in a pub. In a long line of cracking good tales, you couldn't get much better than the new immersive revival of Marie Jones' tragicomedy Stones in H...
Review: LOOK BACK IN ANGER, Almeida Theatre
If Roots is the demure first part of the Almeida’s “Angry and Young” season, Look Back in Anger is the explosive finale. How could it not be when the human flamethrower Jimmy Porter is the burning star at the centre of its orbit?...
Review: ROOTS, Almeida Theatre
The Almeida’s ”Angry and Young” season is a stroke of curatorial brilliance. Arnold Wesker’s 1958 Roots and John Osborne’s 1956 Look back in Anger face off, a roaring lion in one corner, a growling tiger in the other....
Review: REDLANDS, Chichester Festival Theatre
'The quality of mercy is not strained; it droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven upon the place beneath.' Charlotte Jones’ new play delves into a curious pocket of showbiz history, with Michael Havers QC at the centre of it all. Fresh from a momentous victory, he is personally selected by The Rol...
Review: TOP GUN: MAVERICK IN CONCERT, Royal Albert Hall
Tom Cruise made a surprise appearance at a screening of his recent hit Top Gun: Maverick, screened at the Royal Albert Hall as part of their Films In Concert series and BroadwayWorld's critic was there..
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Review: THE TROJAN WOMEN, Lyric Hammersmith
Euripides in W6? A distressingly close fit....
Review: ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND, Royal Ballet And Opera
The Royal Ballet 24/25 season opened on September 28 with Christopher Wheeldon’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. When first created in 2011 the ballet was made up of two acts, by 2012 Wheeldon had reworked things into three and this is what we find in the 2024 revival. See what our critic thin...
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