Wednesday, February 5, 2014
Matthew Edison's well written play confirms the Finborough's knack of choosing plays with affecting depth .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 11:52AMThe problem with this play is that the characters are hard to identify with, unless of course you are 70 and about to marry a very pretty 30 year old Japanese nurse like the main character i…
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a delightful comedy by Lope de Vega .
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Dame Atkins' solo play about another great actess - . . Read More
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It's a treat to see a play Lope de Vega. don't count on seeing all his work though since 1800 plays have been attributed to him.
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:09PMSunday, January 26, 2014
In one of London's tiniest spaces at the 70 seat Gate Theatre in Notting Hill comes a giant of a play
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an excellent and well constructed play with incisive writing
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Opening London's newest yet oldest theatre, the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, the indoor Jacobean theatre at Shakespeare's Globe is John Webster's 1613 Jacobean tragedy of murder, sex and implied…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:03PMSunday, January 5, 2014
The First World War context of this Peter Pan sequel strikes an evocative note of loss, the sad end to the "awfully big adventure"
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Andrew Lloyd Webber brings back the 1960s scandal in what may be his last musical . .
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Rupert Goold's musical adaptation of the Bret Easton Ellis book skates over the surface of what it is that makes a psychopath with its state of the art imagery.
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 04:05PMDavid Tennant under the direction of Gregory Doran comes back to the Royal Shakespeare Company with another magnificent performance
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Howard Davies directs Howard Brenton's play about 1947 India when a British judge was given just six weeks to determine a fair boundary between India and Pakistan.
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:37AMWord driven humor by Colin Swash of the BBC's Have I Got News For Youand Dan Patterson of Room 101. .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:36AMMonday, December 9, 2013
Michael Grandage crowns his opening five play West End season with a production of Henry V starring Jude Law, Grandage's award winning Hamlet of a few years back.
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:18AMThe Menier Chocolate Factory hosts the most charming musicals on a small scale and somehow improves them with their intimate productions. With Bernstein's music and brilliant singing, what m…
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This is an evening that turns theatre critics into food critics but there is plenty of food for thought
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We know there is an ongoing audience demand for crime genre plays with the success of The Mousetrap and An Inspector Calls but in Strangers on a Train the audience will experience and be imm…
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Fantastic fun for fans of farce! .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:39AMFor a period piece, Reginald Rose's Twelve Angry Men delivers a classic drama full of impassioned debate.
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If you can overcome the satirical delivery of these very sad story, you will be blown away by this last collaboration between Kander and Ebb, by the exhilarating dance and wonderful singing …
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great fun whilst not really making a more serious point about the competition that is parenthood.
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Abhishek Majumdar's play is complex and at points obscure because of its many characters, but the theme is clear about how youth are radicalised by the brutality of repressive regimes and to…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 06:29PMhopefully word of mouth will encourage people to make the trek to the far end of Shaftesbury Avenue to see this evocative wartime musical with its realistic edge.
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Set in the council estates and unemployment of Dublin in the mid 1980s, this show illustrates how music can provide the escape route both at a personal level of sinking into the music and at…
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What Arnold Wesker's play does is to convince us that behind every great playwright there is a good woman (or partner)
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- Nicky Silver's black comedy , has made its way to the London theatre from a successful run in New York, complete with its director Mark Brokaw
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 02:41PMOlivia Williams gives a remarkable and intense performance in this adaptation of Ingmar Bergman's film
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- Our review of Vanessa Redgrave's and James Earl Jones''s Beatrice and Benedick is summed up with s Dogberry's "When the age is in, the wit is out." . .
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This production will delight David Walliams' fans because it is a show all about his large comic presence and almost every one of Bottom's lines will get a good laugh. But for the rest of us…
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Theatre O have devised a performance around spies, anarchists and agent provocateurs and given it an anarchic production with flashes of brilliance. . .
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