Reviews
Crazy For You – Review
| June 25, 2018
I had to wonder if it was a chicken and egg situation when Trinity Laban’s musical theatre department opted for the Gershwin musical, Crazy For You, as its
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Shebeen – Review
| June 25, 2018
From the bonhomie opening, and larger than life performance of Martina Laird, you’d be forgiven for initially thinking that Shebeen is a jolly, light-hearted sitcom about 1950s Windrush
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Jack Studio Theatre
Stepping Out – Review
| June 22, 2018
It’s a big step attempting to put on a tap-dancing show in a small fringe theatre. Size matters, especially when you’re staging a big show-stopping finale. But David
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Park Theatre
Beirut – Review
| June 19, 2018
Beirut, Alan Bowne’s short dystopian AIDS drama, first seen off-Broadway in 1987 and now revived at London’s Park Theatre, is the quarantine zone in New York City where
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The Unexpected Guest – Review
| June 18, 2018
He’s dead! You shot him? Yes. And so begins Agatha Christie’s riveting stage thriller, The Unexpected Guest, which has just opened at The Mill at Sonning. Solved in
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Betty Blue Eyes – Review
| June 16, 2018
It was a Friday off from West End, regional and fringe opening nights, so where else would I spend it but at a not so private function in
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Minerva Theatre
The Country Wife – Review
| June 14, 2018
Stupid, cuckolded men and duplicitous women. It doesn’t matter how you dress it up, little has changed over the centuries in the battle of the sexes. William Wycherley’s
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Two Noble Kinsmen – Review
| June 10, 2018
It’s crazy what we’ll do for love. In the lively Two Noble Kinsmen, just opened at Shakespeare’s Globe, two cousins are prepared to kill each other for it
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Milton Keynes Theatre
Matilda The Musical – Review
| June 8, 2018
Children are maggots, worms, vipers and disgusting little blisters. Matilda The Musical, the multi award-winning stage adaptation of Roald Dahl’s magical book, opened at Milton Keynes Theatre last
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Drayton Arms Theatre
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee – Review
| June 8, 2018
I wondered if I’d stepped into an alternate universe when confronted by the vibrant Elizabeth Chadwick at the doors of the Drayton Arms Theatre for MKEC’s production of
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San Domino – Review
| June 8, 2018
Mussolini never killed people, just sent them to holiday camps. So says the tagline, borrowed from Silvio Berlusconi, for San Domino, Tim Anfilogoff and Alan Whittaker’s curious little
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Chichester Festival Theatre
The Chalk Garden – Review
| June 5, 2018
Penelope Keith has been playing intimidating women from the upper classes or landed gentry all her life. The withering put downs, always delivered with immaculate enunciation and impeccable
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