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Saturday, August 5, 2017

Fix review at Underbelly Cowgate, Edinburgh – ‘a bit under-developed’ by Fergus Morgan

Part science lecture, part interwoven monologue drama, part cheery, chirpy sing-a-long,  Joe Sellman-Leava and Michael Woodman’s three-handed Fix – one of three Worklight Theatre…

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Friday, August 4, 2017

Letters to Morrissey review at Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh – ‘angst-ridden and sentimental’ by Fergus Morgan

Solo Scottish storyteller Gary McNair was made an associate artist at the Traverse back in February, and he returns to the theatre

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Saturday, July 29, 2017

Road review at Royal Court, London – ‘an underwhelming revival’ by Fergus Morgan

In his productions of The Glass Menagerie and Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Olivier-winning director John Tiffany crafted worlds of delicacy

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Friday, July 28, 2017

Girl from the North Country at the Old Vic – review round-up by Fergus Morgan

Let’s be clear this is not a ”Bob Dylan musical”. Girl from the North Country might feature songs from the Nobel Prize-winning, singer-songwriter’s extensive catalogue,

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Wednesday, July 26, 2017

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof at the Apollo Theatre, London – review round-up by Fergus Morgan

London’s Young Vic has moved into the West End this summer, with Australian director Benedict Andrews’ much-anticipated revival of Tennessee Williams’ Cat on a Hot Tin

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Monday, July 24, 2017

Much Ado About Nothing at Shakespeare’s Globe, London – review round-up by Fergus Morgan

Emma Rice’s valedictory Summer of Love season has so far whisked audiences from Shakespeare’s Globe to a grotesquely clownish Verona in Daniel Kramer’s Romeo and

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Monday, July 17, 2017

Latitude Festival 2017 review – ‘eclectic bill of exciting artists’ by Fergus Morgan

Latitude is my local festival. I’ve been coming since 2009. I saw Damon Albarn in a thunderstorm, Bloc Party before they split

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Thursday, July 13, 2017

Touch review at Soho Theatre – ‘Frank new comedy from the team behind Fleabag’ by Fergus Morgan

Dee is 33. She lives in an unglamorous bedsit in London, far from her home in the Welsh valleys. She has a

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Wednesday, July 12, 2017

Bodies review at London’s Royal Court – ‘compelling but over-fussy’ by Fergus Morgan

What lengths would you go to for a child to call your own? What relationships would you forsake? What laws would you

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Monday, July 10, 2017

Taha review at Young Vic, London – ‘potent storytelling’ by Fergus Morgan

Amer Hlehel’s one-man play Taha paints a personal portrait on a political canvas, weaving the life story of Palestinian poet Taha Muhammad Ali against the backdrop of the es…

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Monday, July 3, 2017

The Wind in the Willows at the London Palladium – review round-up by Fergus Morgan

Kenneth Grahame’s classic 1908 children’s novel has worked its way into the fabric of British society over the last century, adapted multifariously into films,

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Shit-Faced Showtime review at Leicester Square Theatre, London – ‘harmless, humorous, high-spirited’ by Fergus Morgan

Shit-faced Shakespeare – a pared down play in which one of the cast members is three sheets to the wind – has been a staple

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Friday, June 30, 2017

Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill starring Audra McDonald at Wyndham’s Theatre – review round-up by Fergus Morgan

Lanie Robertson’s 1986 work Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill isn’t exactly a musical and it isn’t exactly a play. Styled

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Thursday, June 29, 2017

Alligators review at Hampstead Theatre, London – ‘knotty and nuanced’ by Fergus Morgan

Andrew Keatley’s Alligators has serious bite. Revised and refined since its 2016 developmental run, Simon Evans’ production returns to the Hampstead Theatre Downstairs a tigh…

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Wednesday, June 28, 2017

Ink at the Almeida Theatre, London – review round-up by Fergus Morgan

James Graham is having a busy 2017. His 2012 smash-hit This House finished its long-overdue West End run in February, his new comedy Labour of Love

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Review: Ink at the Almeida by Fergus Morgan

Britain's best-selling fish-and-chip-wrapper: Fergus Morgan reviews James Graham's new play about the Sun. The post Review: Ink at the Almeida appeared first on Exeunt Magazine.

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Thursday, June 22, 2017

Terror review at Lyric Hammersmith, London – ‘compelling, interactive drama’ by Fergus Morgan

Coupling the knotty legal dialectic of 12 Angry Men with the gut-wrenching emotional tug of United 93, Ferdinand von Schirach’s Terror makes

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Bat Out of Hell at the London Coliseum – review round-up by Fergus Morgan

Meat Loaf has had one hell of a shelf life. Initially a barbarised Peter Pan musical project, then an operatic prog-rock album

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Gloria review at Hampstead Theatre – ‘unsettling and invigorating office dramedy’ by Fergus Morgan

Something happens just before the interval in US playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ Gloria that shocks, viscerally. Out of the blue and on a

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Thursday, June 15, 2017

Stadium review at Birmingham Repertory Theatre – ‘a mishmash’ by Fergus Morgan

The first fruit of Furnace, the Birmingham Rep’s community theatre initiative, was We’re Here Because We’re Here, the Somme centenary memorial that flooded locations

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Friday, June 9, 2017

Common starring Anne-Marie Duff at the National Theatre – review round-up by Fergus Morgan

A country on the brink of a society-defining technological change, viciously divided between the rich and the poor, the town and the country,

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Thursday, June 8, 2017

Cover My Tracks review at Old Vic, London – ‘captivating gig-theatre’ by Fergus Morgan

Staged with captivating simplicity, David Greig and Noah and the Whale frontman Charlie Fink’s new musical two-hander Cover My Tracks is a blissful

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Landmines review at Ovalhouse, London – ‘urgent and intelligent’ by Fergus Morgan

Phil Davies’ Landmines is potent stuff, particularly in light of recent events. Produced here by the Bridge Theatre Company, the professional arm of the Brit

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Wednesday, June 7, 2017

Annie at Piccadilly Theatre starring Miranda Hart – review round-up by Fergus Morgan

There’s a surplus of young talent on the West End stage at the moment. Dennis Kelly and Tim Minchin’s Matilda is still

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Review: Common at the National Theatre by Fergus Morgan

A classic case of biting off more than one can chew: Fergus Morgan responds to the Time Out audience reviews of DC Moore's Common. The post Review: Common at the National Theatre appeared f…

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Friday, June 2, 2017

Twitstorm review at Park Theatre, London – ‘misjudged and feeble’ by Fergus Morgan

There’s a thrilling, thought-provoking play to be written about the vituperative vengeance of social media, but Chris England’s new comedy Twitstorm definitely isn’t

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Thursday, June 1, 2017

Rear View review at the Great Hospital, Norwich – ‘profound and perception-altering’ by Fergus Morgan

IOU’s Rear View takes you places. Literally. After a brief prologue in an impromptu life drawing class – relax, you don’t actually put

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Wednesday, May 31, 2017

Emma Rice’s Twelfth Night at Shakespeare’s Globe – review round-up by Fergus Morgan

Emma Rice’s valedictory summer season at Shakespeare’s Globe started with a bang and is only getting louder. After Daniel Kramer’s raucous Romeo

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Tuesday, May 30, 2017

Frankie Vah review at Norwich Playhouse – ‘thrilling and galvanising’ by Fergus Morgan

If I could take the entire Parliamentary Labour Party to see Luke Wright’s new verse play, I would. The Bungay-based performance poet’s last

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Saturday, May 27, 2017

Review: Jam at the Finborough Theatre by Fergus Morgan

"One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human..." Fergus Morgan reviews Matt Parvin's play about the class clown and his former teacher. The post Review: Jam at the…

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Friday, May 26, 2017

John Boyega in Woyzeck at the Old Vic, London – review round-up by Fergus Morgan

Harry Potter meets Star Wars in London’s Old Vic’s new production of Woyzeck. Joe Murphy’s production has a script from Cursed Child

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2024-2025 BROADWAY SEASON
Jun 05, 2024: Home - Todd Haimes Theatre
Jul 11, 2024: Oh, Mary! - Lyceum Theatre
Jul 30, 2024: Job - Hayes Theater
Sep 12, 2024: The Roommate - Booth Theatre
Nov 14, 2024: Tammy Faye - Palace Theatre
Dec 12, 2024: Cult of Love - Hayes Theater
Dec 19, 2024: Gypsy - Majestic Theatre
Mar 17, 2025: Purpose - Hayes Theater
Apr 01, 2025: Glengarry Glen Ross
Apr 10, 2025: Smash - Imperial Theatre
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