Even 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
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Ex-refugee writer refused entry to see London play sets ‘a worrying precedent’
by News Roomby News RoomThe Jermyn Street theatre respond to the news that writer Ibrahima Balde has been denied a UK visa to attend the premiere of a play based on his life