Lucas is a soulful and magnetic interpreter of her own and others’ writing
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Marriage Material at the Lyric Hammersmith review: a raucously funny and often moving family saga
by News Roomby News RoomEven when it stretches plausibility – those wigs! – this sprawling immigrant aspiration story is a pleasure to watch
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The Frogs at Southwark Playhouse review: bursting with unfulfilled promise
by News Roomby News RoomThe show has been tinkered with too many times and you can see the layers of each era in every line, like a chunk of rock, striated with Aristophanes’s original,…
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The Last Incel: ‘it’s an ideology of hopelessness with comedy potential’
by News Roomby News Room“It’s very much a farce, particularly when this woman enters their group for the first time, Margaret,” he says, “Seeing the rubber meet the road, where they have to stand…
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Imelda Staunton stars opposite her real life daughter Bessie Carter in a George Bernard Shaw production that tends to drag even with huge cuts
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The Crucible at Shakespeare’s Globe: ‘classic study of hysteria and herd behaviour’
by News Roomby News RoomSteve Furst and Jo Stone-Fewings are enjoyable as the two reverends, Parris and Hale; the former pumped up by the chance to capitalise on a scandal that originated under his…
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Shucked at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre: ‘laugh-out loud sunshine’
by News Roomby News RoomThe Open Air theatre season kicks off with this corn-obsessed musical full of chirpy gags and songs
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Blair Gyabaah plays Ibrahima as an effervescent kid, happy, warm, a child who will do anything for other people, but has to work from a young age to help support…
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Zachary Hart on Stereophonic: ‘This will either be the making of me, or kill me’
by News Roomby News Room“The show is about a rock band in 1976, who have been on tour since the release of their first album, are extremely tired, and are thrown into the studio…
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The Fifth Step at @sohoplace: Jack Lowden and Martin Freeman have terrific chemistry in this slippery comedy
by News Roomby News RoomThe two actors tackle challenging material with aplomb in this tight, thought-provoking two hander