David Shields bursts onto the stage as Jacob, a drug dealer, gang member, amped-up kid desperate for a fight. Shields plays it with such intensity that you can almost see…
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Farewell Mister Haffmann at Park Theatre review: this Nazi farce is brutally, depressingly, absurd
by News Roomby News RoomThis stilted play dodges potentially interesting subjects in favour of lumpen dialogue and endless Brest/breast jokes
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‘My teeth pinged out’: Gwilym Lee on playing Gareth Southgate in Dear England
by News Roomby News RoomBohemian Rhapsody and SAS Rogue Heroes star Gwilym Lee talks to us about becoming Gareth Southgate as Dear England hits the National Theatre
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The Seagull at the Barbican review: is Cate Blanchett’s performance the year’s best?
by News Roomby News RoomYou keep thinking, as all the characters face their reckoning, that the carapace will crack, but it never does. Even as she begs her lover not to leave her for…
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‘All the planets are in-line’: KT Tunstall celebrates debut musical Clueless opening in same year she turns 50
by News Roomby News Room“It’s a huge, weird cosmic alignment because it’s the 20th anniversary of the record, the 50th anniversary of myself, the 30th anniversary of Clueless and the 250th anniversary of Jane…
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As in his state of the nation dramas like Sherwood, This House, Dear England and the recent Brian and Maggie, Graham again uses an individual story to examine systems. “Jacob…
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Cult favourite The Yard theatre to be demolished – and then triumphantly rebuilt!
by News Roomby News RoomEast London cult theatre The Yard was only supposed to be a pop-up, but 13 years later it is being reinvented as a permanent venue as part of the rising…
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Alan Menken says Disney’s Little Mermaid being ‘reworked’ for West End stage 17 years after Broadway debut
by News Roomby News RoomThey promise to be an unforgetable experience with the New York-native touching on his time before and at the centre of the Disney Renaissance (Little Mermaid, Aladdin, Beauty and the…
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Alterations at the National Theatre review: ‘a finely tailored play’
by News Roomby News RoomThis rediscovered gem from the Black Plays Archive comes alive from the very start
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A Knock on the Roof at Royal Court Jerwood Theatre Downstairs review:
by News Roomby News RoomWhat if Nur is asleep and slow to stir when the knock on the roof comes? What if Mariam is on the loo, or showering in her prayer-dress (which her…