No chance of this being called Sexy Elektra. Larson blasts on stage like a riot grrrl: she sings a bit, shouts a lot, spits occasionally, all into a heavily amped…
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Toxic male Trojans? Troilus and Cressida leads Shakespeare’s Globe summer season
by News Roomby News RoomDirector Owen Horsley talks to us about his production of Troilus and Cressida as the Globe unveils its summer line-up
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Oedipus at the Old Vic review: bewildering chaos with Rami Malek strangely mannered
by News Roomby News RoomRami Malek seems like he’s on a different planet is this bewildering but oddly compelling production
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Second Best at Riverside Studios: Asa Butterfield plays Harry Potter nearly-man
by News Roomby News RoomIt’s all off-kilter, with humour and poignancy sitting uneasily alongside each other. You can see it in Butterfield’s performance, part stand-up routine, part trauma dump. He’s a really decent stage…
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Play On! at the Lyric Hammersmith review: Twelfth Night relocated to Harlem’s Cotton Club
by News Roomby News RoomThis sassy musical sets Shakespeare to the music of Duke Ellington
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Inside No. 9 Stage/Fright at Wyndham’s Theatre: part smart reinvention and part lazy cash-in
by News Roomby News RoomSteve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith’s dark anthology TV series his the stage with mixed results
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Soho Theatre Walthamstow to open in May with cut-price tickets for locals
by News Roomby News RoomChair of Soho Theatre, Dame Heather Rabatts DBE says, “It’s been an incredible journey for Soho Theatre. We’re a small theatre, always managing to creatively punch above our weight, and…
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An Interrogation at Hampstead Theatre review: Rosie Sheehy is utterly compelling
by News Roomby News RoomBut this is a creditably taut debut work from him and another notch on Rosie Sheehy’s impressive CV, which already includes work for the RSC and National Theatre, David Mamet’s…
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Martin Freeman returns to London’s West End alongside Jack Lowden in alcoholism confessional
by News Roomby News RoomDavid Ireland’s new play The Fifth Step is a starry two-hander coming to @sohoplace
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Cymbeline at Sam Wanamaker Playhouse review: bold telling of a Shakespeare deep cut
by News Roomby News RoomThis sharpens the fevered misogyny of the men who covet Innogen and despise Posthumus, and the agents of Imperial Rome who want to subjugate Cymbeline’s Britain. An ambient soundtrack of…