Kenrex was first on stage in Sheffield in October last year, but when they hit London, something caught fire, says Holden: “There was a point, a couple of weeks in,…
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Precipice at New Diorama Theatre review: ‘an insult to the audience’s intelligence’
by News Roomby News RoomThis dumbass post-apocalypse musical features a talented cast trapped singing some of the worst rhymes ever written
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On stage, she began her career on Broadway in Annie, and earlier this year earned a Tony Award nomination for Best Actress in a Play for her role in John…
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After Sunday at the Bush Theatre review: this sensitive debut doesn’t entirely deliver on its promise
by News Roomby News RoomThis prison-set cooking drama is a serious but skimpy look at male mental health
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London theatre latest: Andy Nyman on The Producers – ‘Mel Brooks’ kindness makes it okay’
by News Roomby News RoomWe will recap, to be on the safe side. The Producers musical is about Max, a producer down on his luck who meets an accountant called Leopold Bloom (Marc Antolin),…
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Porn Play at the Royal Court review: Ambika Mod is harrowingly good as a porn addict
by News Roomby News RoomIt begins with Ani and her boyfriend Liam, another academic, celebrating an award she’s won for a book on Milton and Paradise Lost. But soon he’s complaining about her bedtime…
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The Hunger Games: On Stage review: a curiously uninvolving exercise in visual dazzle
by News Roomby News RoomDirector Matthew Dunster, and his team choreographing the fights, choric movement and flying, do a fine job of filling this steeply-banked, 1200-seat crucible with roiling, hectic, sometimes confusing action. I’ve…
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The songs work in this musical about witch trials in the 1600s but not a great deal else
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Fatherland at Hampstead Theatre review: uneven, but the writing fairly crackles
by News Roomby News RoomNancy Farino’s debut play about a father-daughter road trip is audacious and clever, if in need of a bit of finesse
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The Meat Kings! (Inc.) Of Brooklyn Heights at the Park Theatre: a compelling blue-collar American nightmare
by News Roomby News RoomIn Hannah Doran’s grim world, almost everyone is one paycheck away from welfare