Reviews
Doctor Faustus – Review
| December 12, 2018
Knowledge, education and learning was considered highly dubious in the 16th century but you have to wonder whether those in power were right to be suspicious. Paulette Randall’s
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Love’s Labour’s Lost – Review
| August 30, 2018
Love’s Labour’s Lost at The Globe’s stunning Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, had me at ‘Hello’. A solitary figure enters in complete darkness with a single candle and sits on
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London and West End
The Secret Theatre – Review
| November 23, 2017
Anders Lustgarten knows how to spin a good yarn. His latest, The Secret Theatre, is a gripping Jacobean spy thriller, every bit as intricately plotted as a Le
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Secrets & spies with Anders Lustgarten’s The Secret Theatre at Sam Wanamaker
| October 16, 2017
Espionage, double-crossing and blackmail come to the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse this November with Anders Lustgarten’s The Secret Theatre, a new spy thriller with powerful contemporary echoes. Spymaster Sir
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London and West End
The Flying Lovers of Vitebsk – Review
| June 23, 2016
I’m the first to admit that my knowledge of artists and their work is abysmal which is possibly why found Kneehigh’s The Flying Lovers of Vitebsk, which opened
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Star line-up for The Globe’s The Voice & The Echo series
| August 19, 2015
Alex Jennings, Tim Pigott-Smith, Meera Syal, Hattie Morahan and Jamie Parker head an all-star line-up for The Voice & the Echo series at Shakespeare’s Globe this autumn. The
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Shakespeare’s Globe announces winter season
| April 15, 2015
The 2015/16 season in the indoor Sam Wanamaker Playhouse at The Globe will open with short runs of four productions, including Luigi Rossi’s Orpheus – a new collaboration
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Mind games with Ford’s Jacobean tragedy The Broken Heart
| January 22, 2015
Television favourites Amy Morgan (Mr Selfridge), Owen Teale (Game of Thrones) and Luke Thompson (The Suspicions of Mr Whicher) are to star in The Broken Heart at The
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Stars host storytime at The Globe’s winter Playhouse
| October 21, 2014
For the first time in its history, Shakespeare’s Globe is offering theatre, music and spoken word productions throughout the winter – including a riotous Christmas show – thanks
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Hattie Morahan stars in Dromgoole’s The Changeling at Sam Wanamaker
| October 17, 2014
Award-winning actress Hattie Morahan is set to take the role of Beatrice-Joanna in Dominic Dromgoole’s forthcoming production of The Changeling, at Shakespeare’s Globe opening January 20. This complex,
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Posh pair Max Bennett & Fiona Button set for ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore
| September 17, 2014
Full casting has been announced for Michael Longhurst’s forthcoming ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore, opening in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse on October 28. This new production of John
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Mark Rylance takes royal role in The Globe’s Farinelli & The King
| September 12, 2014
Mark Rylance is to star as Philippe V, King of Spain in Claire van Kampen’s new play with music, Farinelli and the King, premiering in the Sam Wanamaker
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