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Friday, 29 September 2023
REVIEW: The King and I at the New Victoria Theatre, Woking
After their hugely successful run on Broadway at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre and at the London Palladium in the West End, The King and I is ...
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Tuesday, 19 September 2023
REVIEW: Rebecca at the Charing Cross Theatre
From the first chilling note to the final fiery scene, Rebecca is an all-out melodrama, complete with sinister plots, a soaring score, and c...
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REVIEW: 42nd Street at the New Victoria Theatre, Woking
The musical 42nd Street ran for five years at Drury Lane from 1984 and has been regularly revived for regional tours and West End outings ev...
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Thursday, 14 September 2023
REVIEW: God Of Carnage at The Lyric Hammersmith
Yasmina Reza’s (translated by Christopher Hampton) unassuming but vicious satirical unmasking of the modern-day middle class, God Of Carnage...
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REVIEW: Infamous at the Jermyn Street Theatre
History buffs will instantly recognise Lady Emma Hamilton as an enduring figure who is a gift to any dramatist. Born in 1765 she became a ho...
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Sunday, 3 September 2023
REVIEW: The RSC's Macbeth at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre
Wils Wilsons’ most recent adaptation of Macbeth at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre was refreshing in its tradition. Though a far cry from a pi...
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Sunday, 6 August 2023
REVIEW: The Sound of Music at the Chichester Festival Theatre
The 1959 hit musical Sound of Music has one of the best scores ever written with wonderful Richard Rodgers tunes that tug at the heartstring...
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REVIEW: Rock Follies at the Chichester Festival Theatre
Thames Television was at the height of its creative powers in the late Seventies and early Eighties and under the wonderful Verity Lambert (...
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REVIEW: Spiral at the Jermyn Street Theatre
It's not often that cast and principal creatives appear on the same stage. But Spiral has that rare distinction with author Abigail Hood...
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Sunday, 30 July 2023
REVIEW: Ride at the Southwark Playhouse Elephant
In a world filled with familiar shows that pedal out the same old story time and again, Ride shines as a beacon of originality, artfully wea...
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Sunday, 16 July 2023
REVIEW: Titanic the Musical at the New Victoria Theatre, Woking
The towering sheets of the steel frame of Titanic covered the backdrop of the New Victoria Theatre and coated the proscenium. The atmospheri...
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REVIEW: The Tempest Re-Imagined for Everyone Aged Six and Over at Regent's Park Open Air Theatre
Prepare to be transported to a world of magic and imagination with The Tempest Re-Imaged for Everyone Ages Six and Over at Regents Park Open...
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Tuesday, 4 July 2023
REVIEW: Crazy For You at the Gillian Lynne Theatre
We can measure the success of a Chichester Festival season by the transfer of shows into the West End and they have a good track record of m...
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REVIEW: Then, Now, Next at the Southwark Playhouse
New musicals with new songs are an increasingly rare sight in a genre dominated by revivals and greatest hits packages. But just occasionall...
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REVIEW: The RSC's As You Like It at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre
The Royal Shakespeare Company has a duty to stage the plays of the Bard and bring them to new audiences, over 400 years since the works were...
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Wednesday, 28 June 2023
REVIEW: Tarantino Live at Riverside Studios
If you put all of Tarantino’s biggest hits, some classic 70s rock and 15 musical theatre legends in a big gory blender, you would come out w...
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Monday, 26 June 2023
REVIEW: Mrs Doutbfire at the Shaftesbury Theatre
With the weight of the 1993 classic film on their shoulders, the cast, crew, and creatives of Mrs Doubtfire the Musical set out to bring the...
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REVIEW: The Pillowman at the Duke of York's Theatre
Martin McDonagh has written some extraordinary plays usually based around an Irish setting with dark comedy spoken by fascinating characters...
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REVIEW: Robin Hood: The Legend. Re-written. at Regent's Park Open Air Theatre
The programme tells us that the origins of Robin Hood are in 1220 in Yorkshire, but I was brought up watching the black and white TV series ...
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REVIEW: Frank and Percy at the Theatre Royal Windsor
Sir Ian McKellen and Roger Allam have established themselves as two national treasures of theatrical performances across the spectrum from P...
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