In essence the plot is simple. A middle-aged white couple, Christopher and Lynette, enlist wealthy black neighbours Sihle and Bonolo, who they’ve hitherto largely ignored, to improve the “optics” of…
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Kyoto at @sohoplace review: this bravura show turns real life climate change talks into a gripping thriller
by News Roomby News RoomBillions star Stephen Kunken puts in a seductively charismatic central performance as a lawyer funded by Big Oil to derail consensus on limiting carbon emissions
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Oliver! at the Gielgud Theatre review: this darker take on the classic musical is all killer no filler
by News Roomby News RoomThe score of Oliver! is all killer, no filler, from Food Glorious Food to Consider Yourself to I’d Do Anything. It’s boggling to think that the witty book, wildly diverse…
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The Maids at Jermyn Street Theatre review: an angry shout of a play
by News Roomby News RoomWe first see breathy, earthy Claire dressed in her mistress’s finery, bossing solemn, aggrieved Solange around and heaping opprobrium on her work, her clothes, and her rank breath. Crimp’s adaptation…
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Titanique at the Criterion Theatre review: get on board with this outrageous Celine Dion parody
by News Roomby News RoomToday, Blue’s production still has the air of a cabaret performance, with the cast, band and backing singers occupying a stepped set only lightly suggestive of nautical architecture. A giant,…
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The Tempest at Theatre Royal Drury Lane review: Sigourney Weaver in the West End is a thrill but the show fails to spark
by News Roomby News RoomJamie 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