Reviews
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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Windrush, racism & settling in. Nottingham Playhouse premieres award-winning Shebeen
| May 16, 2018
The Windrush generation is remembered in Mufaro Makubika’s award-winning play, Shebeen, which premieres at Nottingham Playhouse before moving to Theatre Royal Stratford East. Nottingham local Karl Collins takes
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Jazz story told in Cafe Society Swing at Theatre Royal Stratford East
| April 17, 2018
Boasting a stellar international cast, Cafe Society Swing comes to the historic Theatre Royal Stratford East, telling the story of the first racially-desegregated jazz club in New
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Joan Littlewood remembered in Nadia Fall’s inaugural season at Theatre Royal Stratford East
| March 22, 2018
Nadia Fall, new artistic director of Theatre Royal Stratford East has announced her inaugural season and it opens with a production that pays homage to the venue’s founder,
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London Fringe
Counting Stars – Review
| September 9, 2016
Intolerance and temper. They sound like they could be the names of celebrity scents sold from the spritz bar in the ladies at the Paradise Club for £1
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Theatre Royal Stratford East is Counting Stars in new season opener
| September 1, 2016
Theatre Royal Stratford East has opened its autumn season with the 2015 Edinburgh Fringe hit, Counting Stars, from its newly appointed writer-in-residence Atiha Sen Gupta. The stage is
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Janis Joplin: Full Tilt ready to rock Theatre Royal Stratford East
| February 9, 2016
Peter Arnott’s production about one of rock’s greatest female icons, Janis Joplin, opens the 2016 season at Theatre Royal Stratford East tomorrow. Blending theatre with the feel and
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London Fringe
Anita And Me – Review
| November 11, 2015
It’s not often that a play is so riddled with Black Country patois that you need surtitles. Anita And Me, Meera Syal’s affectionate look at life for the
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Tank tops and tandoori. Anita And Me comes to London’s East End
| October 19, 2015
Meera Syal’s much-loved novel, Anita And Me, has made an acclaimed debut in Birmingham and later this month audiences at Theatre Royal Stratford East will get a chance
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London Fringe
The Etienne Sisters – Review
| September 28, 2015
I know from personal experience how difficult relationships can be among members of extended families. There’s never a cast iron guarantee that siblings and half siblings will ever
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The Etienne Sisters hit the right note at Theatre Royal Stratford East
| September 15, 2015
Writing duo Chè Walker and Anoushka Lucas have brought the world premiere of their new play with music The Etienne Sisters to Theatre Royal Stratford East.. This all-female
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It’s back to the trenches for UK tour of Oh What A Lovely War
| December 4, 2014
Former Coronation Street star Ian Reddington and Emmerdale’s Christopher Villiers join Wendi Peters in the trenches in the 2015 national tour of Terry Johnson’s hit revival of Oh
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