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Enter stage right: the new wave of musicals taking on the West End adaptations
With everything from Bake Off to Pretty Woman putting bums on seats in Theatreland, launching an original homegrown production is harder than ever. But might salvation be at hand in the unlikely shape of Silvio Berlusconi?
Kate Wyver
29, Mar, 2023 @11:00 AM
Marjorie Prime review – gently uncanny sci-fi shows us how to love an AI
Menier Chocolate Factory, London
Anne Reid shines in this delicately written drama about a woman with dementia living with a robot re-creation of her late husband as a young man
Anne Reid shines in this delicately written drama about a woman with dementia living with a robot re-creation of her late husband as a young man
Kate Wyver
17, Mar, 2023 @11:58 AM
Hedda Gabler review – queer update of Ibsen’s intense story of desire
It makes sense to rethink the sexual currents running through the classic drama, but this version has lost the nuance it needs
Kate Wyver
02, Mar, 2023 @1:09 PM
‘It stole years’: the musical about those silenced by anti-gay law Section 28
Influenced by the music of Billy Bragg, Bonnie Tyler and Meatloaf, After the Act explores the culture of fear and self-censorship caused by the law, voted through by the Tories during moral panic about Aids
Kate Wyver
27, Feb, 2023 @8:00 AM
The Winter’s Tale review – the Globe’s two-venue telling loses its way
As this ambitious production switches between stages, and deaths pile up like dishes, neither the comedy nor the tragedy have room to breathe
Kate Wyver
23, Feb, 2023 @4:00 PM
Bootycandy review – thrilling, uproarious comedy explores Black queerness from every angle
Inventive direction and a spectacular cast make the London transfer of Robert O’Hara’s kaleidoscopic off-Broadway play a spiralling, high-energy triumph
Kate Wyver
17, Feb, 2023 @11:21 AM
‘I told my gran: You don’t touch Aidan’s hair!’ Jenna Coleman and Aidan Turner on friendship and their daring new play
Having starred in some of Britain’s biggest TV shows, the pair are taking to the stage for Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons, a minimalist two-hander where words are strictly rationed. And they can’t stop talking about it
Kate Wyver
28, Jan, 2023 @11:55 AM
Saint Jude review – delightfully disturbing immersive theatre in creepy clinic
Taking part in a trial shift to help coma patients wake up, the tension grows as it slowly becomes clear why you’re really mining strangers’ secrets
Kate Wyver
27, Jan, 2023 @12:29 PM
Oh yes it is! Oh no it isn’t! Is the panto dame still a suitable cause for mirth?
Fire the glitter cannons! Unleash the water pistols! The panto season is here. But how did the cross-dressing dame become so central to the tradition? And in an age of gender fluidity, should we still be laughing?
Kate Wyver
13, Dec, 2022 @4:39 PM
Naked truths slathered in hummus: Lucy McCormick’s intimate and alarming cabaret
The disruptive artist’s new show is a boisterous evening, with her brazen persona an exhilarating challenge for audiences
Kate Wyver
13, Dec, 2022 @1:53 PM
Yule love it: the best culture of the festive season
From magical ballet to adult panto, Arthurian exhibits to a touring troupe of comics, we present December’s hottest remaining tickets
Lyndsey Winship, Rachel Aroesti, Michael Cragg, Skye Sherwin, Kate Wyver, Catherine Bray, Andrew Clements and Ammar Kalia
03, Dec, 2022 @11:55 AM
Henry V review – a troubled king reaches for foreign quarrels
In this coruscating production from Headlong and Shakespeare’s Globe, Henry’s grasp for power is cast in a stark light
Kate Wyver
24, Nov, 2022 @11:00 PM
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