Daniel Evans, a two-time Olivier Award winner, is directing the production, with Playful Productions, Royal Shakespeare Company, and Elizabeth Williams as producers. Williams described Duffy’s play as “brilliant in conception…
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“The pound story is that the brewery actually wanted £120,000 pounds for it, and I was 23 years old, I didn’t have £120,000 pounds; that was a lot of money…
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Brixton Calling at Southwark Playhouse Borough review: a great London story, told with brio
by News Roomby News RoomAmazingly, in Runham, Lagan has found an actor with similar physical traits, who is also a musician with a decent singing voice. Sitima, meanwhile, is a multi-instrumentalist with a larger-than-life…
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101 Dalmatians The Musical at Eventim Apollo review: this show is a dogs dinner
by News Roomby News RoomThe puppy puppets have been simplified and a twee mawkishness introduced in this disastrous transfer to a different theatre
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Bleu’s Carraway is of course the narrator of this tale, the wannabe New York bond dealer who moves into a cottage on Long Island next door to the mansion of…
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Talbot’s Harry is 18, shruggy and surly, and looks like a young Malcom McDowell. Pike, with the help of a series of yellow child’s anoraks and sometimes with a child…
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Burlesque at the Savoy Theatre review: a daft paean to self-empowerment
by News Roomby News RoomThis enjoyably absurd musical based on an enjoyably humdrum film is far better than I could have anticipated
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Sing Street at Lyric Hammersmith review: has the energy and immediacy of your favourite band’s first gig
by News Roomby News RoomInstantly smitten by 16-year-old would-be model Raphina (Grace Collender), a vision in ripped lace and ankle boots who hangs around the local phone booth, he asks her to star in…
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Sing Street at the Lyric Hammersmith: ‘the level of musicianship is incredible’
by News Roomby News RoomInstantly smitten by 16-year-old would-be model Raphina (Grace Collender), a vision in ripped lace and ankle boots who hangs around the local phone booth, he asks her to star in…
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The Estate at the National Theatre review: Adeel Akhtar is extraordinary
by News Roomby News RoomThough contrived in parts, Shaan Sahota’s debut play about a British Sikh politician wrestling with his family and his desire to lead his party is an absolute blast. It’s anchored…