Jack Thorne is one of the country’s very best creative talents, the screenwriter behind little series like Adolescence, Toxic Town, This Is England and the new version of Lord of…
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Rebecca Lucy Taylor on booze, sexist double standards — and her West End revival
by News Roomby News RoomRebecca Lucy Taylor is storming the West End in a play about how the music industry treats women. But she had already confronted the reality of the business — as…
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The show starts as it means to go on, with the entrance of Duke Theseus (Enyi Okoronkwo, underpowered) and Queen Hippolyta (Audrey Brisson, vampish). His lines about conquering her are…
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The joke is that Fiennes and Irving, both popular stars with an unwavering commitment to the stage, also both project a pained seriousness of manner. Here, in 1878, Irving recruits…
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Mass at Donmar Warehouse: An easy win for a smugly liberal audience
by News Roomby News RoomIn Punch, we also saw the buildup to and impulsive enactment of the pivotal crime. In Mass, it’s not even named until we’re 30 minutes into the 90-minute running time,…
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Please Please Me review: Clumsy look at Brian Epstein’s sexual obsession with John Lennon
by News Roomby News RoomThe story of how this Jewish, Liverpudlian record-shop manager discovered and shaped the band that changed the world, and how they arguably abandoned him, is sketchily but over-literally reiterated by…
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The Price review: Arthur Miller’s knotty post-Crash drama shouldn’t work this well
by News Roomby News RoomArthur Miller’s post-Depression play is unsurprisingly timely again at the Marylebone Theatre
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Between the River and the Sea review: The personal can’t help but become political
by News Roomby News RoomSweid is an impishly charming Palestinian actor and an Israeli citizen, born into an Arab Christian family in Haifa and now living in Berlin, the father of a grown up…
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West End ticket prices at ‘tipping point’: Is theatre in London simply unaffordable now?
by News Roomby News RoomNadia Fall, the artistic director of the Young Vic, has put the spotlight back on the “eye watering” rise in theatre ticket prices. Speaking at the launch of the Young…
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This Tony-winning legendary production revives at the Shaftesbury Theatre with hilarious offensiveness still intact