Bijan Sheibani’s production of Beth Steel’s play has lost none of its power as it returns to the West End
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Noughts & Crosses at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre: depressingly relevant
by News Roomby News RoomThis adaptation of Malorie Blackman’s novel feels timely and necessary, although the tone can be patronising
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Written in 1976 — after the pop-religious romps about Joseph and Jesus with Rice, and before the imperial phase of Cats and Phantom — Evita may be Lloyd Webber’s most…
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Wiley totally inhabits the part of a spinster seamstress in Lynn Nottage’s portrait of 1905 New York
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Hercules at Theatre Royal Drury Lane: ‘chugs along agreeably enough’
by News Roomby News RoomThis adaptation of the Disney film is slick with some fun songs but somewhat lacking in strength
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This Bitter Earth at Soho Theatre review: Billy Porter makes an assured directing debut
by News Roomby News RoomThis tale of an interracial couple in America is a fresh and illuminating take on recent social and political history that’s already being rewritten elsewhere
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4.48 Psychosis at the Royal Court Theatre review: a hard, harsh watch illuminated by flashes of poetic clarity
by News Roomby News RoomThe script is 43 pages of broken-up text, angry or futile speeches alternating with lists of numbers and types of medication, repetition (“flicker punch slash dab”), word association (“irrelevant, irreverent”)…
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Anoushka Lucas on her astonishing theatrical tour-de-force Elephant
by News Roomby News RoomThis new restaging, by Jess Edwards, features a piano at the centre of the staging – which acts as a means of escape and expression, but also as a symbol…
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One to Watch: Louis Healy, Stranger Things’ new theatrical superstar
by News Roomby News RoomHe’s from a family of stars — but with a lead West End role, now it’s Louis Healy’s time to shine, darkly
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Lovestuck at Stratford East review: ‘a cheerfully brainless scatological musical’
by News Roomby News RoomBased on a true story about a woman who was trapped upside down in a toilet, this musical from the team behind My Dad Wrote a Porno doesn’t come out…