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THEATRE REVIEW | Sleepless – Troubadour Wembley Park Theatre – This is what theatre is all about!
The West End is back, and it’s in Wembley! Sleepless the first major stage productions to open up in London in 6 months (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre opened in Mid-August with Jesus Christ Superstar). Originally scheduled to open on April 1st, it was sidelined, like all other productions, until further notice. But now it […]
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THEATRE REVIEW | Spy Plays, London
★★★★★ | Spy Plays, Above the Stag Theatre, London Intrigue. Attraction. Mystery. Lust. Sex. Murder. These are the themes surrounding two plays rolled into one and called ‘Spy Plays’ now at the Above the Stag Theatre. David Thame’s ‘Kompromat‘ and ‘London/Budapest‘ are shown together for the first time, and both based on true life events where the same actors play […]
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THEATRE REVIEW | Ian McKellen On Stage, London
★★★★★ | Ian McKellen On Stage, Harold Pinter Theatre, London “Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.” This is a famous quote from Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare, and it can also be applied to Sir Ian McKellen, and his performance in his one-man show ‘Ian McKellen On […]
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THEATRE REVIEW | The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Iris Theatre
★★★★★ | The Hunchback of Notre Dame Covent Garden is now Paris in 1831. Well, it is for 150 minutes when St. Paul’s Church in the heart of Covent Garden plays, to great effect, Notre Dame cathedral in an excellent outdoor production of The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Victor Hugo’s classic tale of survival, injustice, […]
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THEATRE REVIEW | Vincent River, Trafalgar Studios
Lady Sasha de Suinn reviews director Robert Chevara’s highly-praised take on Philip Ridley’s Vincent River, the gripping, LGBT psychodrama now running at the West End’s Trafalger Square Studios to June 22nd.
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THEATRE REVIEW | Betrayal, Harold Pinter Theatre, London
★★★★★| Betrayal, London Heartthrob Tom Hiddleston shines in Jamie Lloyd’s new production of Betrayal, now playing at the Pinter Theatre in London’s West End. Betrayal is one of the late Harold Pinter’s more well-known works (from 1978), and it also clocks in at a snip 90 minutes, but it’s 90 minutes that’s full of drama, […]
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THEATRE REVIEW | The Comedy About A Bank Robbery, The Birmingham Rep
Brilliantly unpredictable
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The Inheritance, The Young Vic
★★★★★ | The Inheritance, The Young Vic It’s a bold move to schedule nearly 7 hours of theatre about the lives of gay men, by a writer who’s largely unknown in the UK and hope that people take a punt on it without fear of boredom or backache. It’s paid off here though, as the […]
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THEATRE REVIEW | Dust, Soho Theatre
★★★★★ | Dust, Soho Theatre Alice, the central character of Dust, is dead, looking on as the aftermath of her suicide causes unexpected reactions. Don’t expect Patrick Swayze style saucy potters’ wheels or James Stewart’s revelations about how wonderful life is, though. This is certainly not one of those kinds of stories. Life for Alice […]
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THEATRE REVIEW | Mary Stuart, Duke of Yorks Theatre
★★★★★ | Mary Stuart, Duke of York’s Theatre Two queens fighting to the death. No, not Vauxhall on a Saturday but a fascinating slice of Elizabethan history. Mary Stuart seeks refuge in England only to be imprisoned by her cousin, Queen Elizabeth the 1st, as a potential threat to the English throne. Mary anxiously awaits […]