Jamie Lloyd’s production has an incantatory, dream-like quality but instead of lightning in a bottle it’s a damp squib
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Cat On a Hot Tin Roof at the Almeida review: Daisy Edgar-Jones is a force of nature in this striking revival
by News Roomby News RoomDirector Rebecca Frecknall’s vivid interpretation makes a hazily-remembered classic feel new and strange
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Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812 at the Donmar Warehouse review: exciting, audacious and infuriating
by News Roomby News RoomBased on 70 pages of Tolstoy’s War and Peace, this is maddening and brilliant in equal measure
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Drag Race’s Michelle Visage shares ‘joy’ of bringing Edward Scissorhands-inspired musical to London
by News Roomby News RoomDrag Race judge Visage, 56, will serve as a co-producer along with her “dear friend” former *NSYNC band member Lance Bass, plus, Kelley Parker, Brian Pendleton, and the show’s writer…
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Robin Hood at the London Palladium review: panto royalty Julian Clary remains peerless
by News Roomby News RoomThe smut is as OTT as the sets, costumes and effects in this now annual staple of the theatrical calendar
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Then there’s the traditional pantomime. Gloriously vaudevillian, sometimes smutty, always joyful, for many theatres it is what keeps the lights on. As the old saying goes, no panto, no Pinter.…
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The Little Foxes at the Young Vic review: Anne-Marie Duff shines in this tale of a rapaciously dysfunctional family’s collapse
by News Roomby News RoomFamily tensions, rampant capitalism, excessive drinking, someone falling over: yes, this is definitely a Christmas show
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The Producers at Menier Chocolate Factory review: a superb revival of this buoyantly vulgar Broadway musical
by News Roomby News RoomCome for the great gags and music, stay for the hotpants and giant spangled Bratwurst
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Evita to return to London’s West End with revival directed by Jamie Lloyd
by News Roomby News RoomAndrew Lloyd Webber is teaming up with Jamie Lloyd again, following their huge success with Sunset Boulevard
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A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Barbican: intelligent, witty and visually dazzling
by News Roomby News RoomIt’s no disrespect to the generally fine ensemble acting of the cast, or their finery, to say you’ll notice the set first. Lucy Osborne, who also did the costumes, gives…