Miriam Battye’s darkly funny comedy at Soho Theatre is about a group of girls getting ready for a night out and wondering what faces them
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Arcadia at the Old Vic review: a fitting tribute to Tom Stoppard’s genius
by News Roomby News RoomThis wonderful meditation on love, death and mathematics dances through the mind and the heart
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Lost Atoms at Lyric Hammersmith review: fresh, flawed characters anchor this dynamic romance
by News Roomby News RoomThere are echoes of the latter story in the way Lost Atoms charts the ups and downs of a relationship from beginning to end. It starts with a “meet cute”.…
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The Rat Trap at the Park Theatre: a must-see for Noel Coward completists
by News Roomby News RoomDespite Rosenfield’s ministrations, the dialogue lacks the sparkle of later Coward, with the couple arguing over ownership of the “best” pencil and whether to have last night’s mutton for supper.…
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American Psycho review: Perfect musical for an era of looksmaxxing misogynists
by News Roomby News RoomBut songs like Hard Body sound weak beside the genuine 80s hits by Phil Collins, Tears for Fears and, yes, Huey Lewis, included to mock Bateman’s cultural void. The keyboard-and-bass…
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The Tempest review: Caliban wears a Gazza shirt in fascinating and fresh take
by News Roomby News RoomHere, Prospero’s scenes become a piece of ritualised storytelling between him, his daughter Miranda and the island inhabitants, Ariel and Caliban, who he has enslaved. They sit in a square…
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Ballad Lines review: Time-spanning folk musical takes itself too seriously
by News Roomby News RoomThis time-spanning feminist musical falls between unconvincing contemporary scenes and thin historic narratives but has its moments
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Beautiful Little Fool at Southwark Playhouse Borough review: unsubtle and trivialising
by News Roomby News RoomWhen they meet in 1917 in Montgomery, Alabama, Fitzgerald has just dropped out of Princeton to join the Army, hoping that war will hone his fledgling authorial talent. Zelda, meanwhile,…
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The Traitors’ latest ‘twist’? A live show coming to London’s West End
by News Roomby News RoomThe wildly popular BBC show has teased that a “thrilling new hunting ground for our traitors” is in the works
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Guess How Much I Love You? at the Royal Court Theatre review: harrowingly powerful
by News Roomby News RoomExceptional performances from Rosie Sheehy and Robert Aramayo drive this bleak and brutal play