We will recap, to be on the safe side. The Producers musical is about Max, a producer down on his luck who meets an accountant called Leopold Bloom (Marc Antolin),…
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Porn Play at the Royal Court review: Ambika Mod is harrowingly good as a porn addict
by News Roomby News RoomIt begins with Ani and her boyfriend Liam, another academic, celebrating an award she’s won for a book on Milton and Paradise Lost. But soon he’s complaining about her bedtime…
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The Hunger Games: On Stage review: a curiously uninvolving exercise in visual dazzle
by News Roomby News RoomDirector Matthew Dunster, and his team choreographing the fights, choric movement and flying, do a fine job of filling this steeply-banked, 1200-seat crucible with roiling, hectic, sometimes confusing action. I’ve…
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The songs work in this musical about witch trials in the 1600s but not a great deal else
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Fatherland at Hampstead Theatre review: uneven, but the writing fairly crackles
by News Roomby News RoomNancy Farino’s debut play about a father-daughter road trip is audacious and clever, if in need of a bit of finesse
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The Meat Kings! (Inc.) Of Brooklyn Heights at the Park Theatre: a compelling blue-collar American nightmare
by News Roomby News RoomIn Hannah Doran’s grim world, almost everyone is one paycheck away from welfare
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Othello at Theatre Royal Haymarket: ‘Why does this star vehicle feel so humdrum?’
by News Roomby News RoomToby Jones’s Iago is married to a black woman: Vinette Robinsons’ Emilia, impressive in her early muted submission and in the later depths of her anguish. But racial hatred combines…
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Paddington pandemonium: How to buy the hot tickets to the new musical
by News Roomby News RoomGrab a marmalade sandwich and get yourself down to the Savoy Theatre
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Audience reduced to tears by Paddington Bear reveal for new West End musical
by News Roomby News RoomVoicing Paddington is off-stage performer and remote puppeteer James Hameed, with on-stage actress Arti Shah also helping in the portrayal of the bear. Costume and creature creature Tahra Zafar, who…
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Line of Beauty at Almeida Theatre: ‘Hugely entertaining skim across shiny 80s Britain’
by News Roomby News RoomThis adaptation of Alan Hollinghurst’s novel looks at Thatcherism, the AIDS crisis and class in 80s Britain in satirical fashion