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Monday, April 16, 2018

Top 5 theatre shows to see this week (April 16-22) by Natasha Tripney

Tina! The Tina Turner Musical – Aldwych Theatre, London Casting announced for Tina Turner musical This one’s going to be big. Directed by

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Tuesday, April 10, 2018

Reared review at Theatre503, London – ‘funny and touching’ by Natasha Tripney

Eileen is stuck in the middle. Her once formidable Irish mother-in-law Nora is starting to forget things. Her teenage daughter Caitlin is

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Monday, April 9, 2018

Top 5 theatre shows to see this week (April 9-15) by Natasha Tripney

Quiz – Noel Coward Theatre, London James Graham’s Quiz is a play about Charles Ingram, the “coughing major” who ended up on trial

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Thursday, April 5, 2018

Devil With the Blue Dress review at the Bunker, London – ‘never quite ignites’ by Natasha Tripney

Kevin Armento’s play takes the form of a narrative tug-of-war. The five women at the centre of the Clinton-Lewinsky sex scandal that

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Wednesday, April 4, 2018

The Fantastic Follies of Mrs Rich review at Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon – ‘entertaining staging of a lost play’ by Natasha Tripney

One of a number of ‘female wits’ writing during the Restoration, Mary Pix’s name and her work have been largely forgotten. Now,

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Monday, April 2, 2018

Top 5 theatre shows to see this week (April 2-April 8) by Natasha Tripney

The Fantastic Follies of Mrs Rich – Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon Sophie Stanton plays the title role in Jo Davies’ production, a refashioning of The

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Thursday, March 29, 2018

The Inheritance review at Young Vic, London – ‘moving and compelling’ by Natasha Tripney

Spread over two parts and running to more than seven hours of theatre, American playwright Matthew Lopez’s The Inheritance, receiving its world

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Wednesday, March 28, 2018

Ghost Stories review – ‘creepily effective film of the hit stage show’ by Natasha Tripney

The idea that we make our own ghosts, that they are the product of guilt and shame, is a potent one and

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Tuesday, March 27, 2018

49 Donkeys Hanged review at Theatre Royal, Plymouth – ‘intensely self-referential’ by Natasha Tripney

Alas, poor Eeyore. While driving in South Africa In 1999, playwright and regular Kneehigh collaborator Carl Grose saw a billboard outside Johannesburg

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Monday, March 26, 2018

Top 5 theatre shows to see this week (March 26-April 1) by Natasha Tripney

Mountains: The Dreams of Lily Kwok – Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester Based on Helen Tse’s memoir Sweet Mandarin, In-Sook Chappell’s new play charts

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Thursday, March 22, 2018

Misty review at the Bush Theatre, London – ‘intelligent and interrogative’ by Natasha Tripney

Arinze Kene launches into a story about a fight on a night bus. His performance is physically and vocally rich, words rattling

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Tuesday, March 20, 2018

Macbeth review at Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon – ‘one for horror film fans’ by Natasha Tripney

A deep love of horror movies permeates Polly Findlay’s staging of Macbeth. This is an approach that makes sense – it is,

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Monday, March 19, 2018

Lock and Key review at Vaults, London – ‘a promising chamber musical’ by Natasha Tripney

This dark new chamber musical by musical theatre duo Barlow and Smith entertainingly drops the Bluebeard story into a modern office environment

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Thursday, March 15, 2018

Frankenstein review at Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester – ‘an atmospheric staging’ by Natasha Tripney

This year marks the 200th anniversary of the publication of Mary Shelley’s gothic novel about the scientist who finds a way of

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Wednesday, March 14, 2018

Our Country’s Good review at Nottingham Playhouse – ‘generous and inclusive’ by Natasha Tripney

Ramps on the Moon is a consortium of six theatres that each year takes a turn to produce a touring show featuring

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Monday, March 12, 2018

Brief Encounter review at Empire Cinema, London – ‘unashamedly romantic’ by Natasha Tripney

The Rice restorative. Someone really ought to bottle it.  First seen in London in 2008, Brief Encounter, the most satisfying of Emma

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Top 5 theatre shows to see this week (March 12-18) by Natasha Tripney

Br’er Cotton – Theatre503, London Theatre503 presents Tearrance Chisholm’s play, about an African-American teenage boy living in Virginia and the Black Lives

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Top 5 theatre shows to see this week (March 12-18) by Natasha Tripney

Caroline, Or Change – Hampstead Theatre, London Sharon D Clarke reprises her role in the acclaimed Chichester Festival Theatre production of Tony Kushner’s

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Thursday, March 8, 2018

Paint Your Wagon review at Everyman Theatre, Liverpool – ‘an endearing revival’ by Natasha Tripney

Written in 1951, Lerner and Lowe’s gold rush musical is full of intriguing contrasts. Reflective of both the time it was set

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Wednesday, March 7, 2018

Macbeth review at National Theatre, London – ‘muddled and ugly’ by Natasha Tripney

Having struggled to fill the, admittedly daunting, Olivier stage last year with Common and Saint George and the Dragon, two ambitious but

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Monday, March 5, 2018

The Best Man review at Playhouse Theatre, London – ‘dismayingly accurate satire’ by Natasha Tripney

Written in 1960, Gore Vidal’s play about American politics and populism still feels dismayingly accurate in its account of how political campaigns

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Nest review at Vaults, London – ‘moments of tenderness’ by Natasha Tripney

Jade doesn’t like going outside. It’s too risky. Kids are throwing shopping trolleys off the roof and the lift smells of piss.

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Top 5 theatre shows to see this week by Natasha Tripney

Macbeth – National Theatre, London March is the month of Macbeths. There are three major productions opening as well as a new

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Thursday, March 1, 2018

Smile Upon Us, Lord review at Barbican Theatre, London – ‘mesmeric and moving’ by Natasha Tripney

Russia’s prestigious Vakhtangov State Academic Theatre returns to London with Smile Upon Us, Lord, an adaptation of two books by the Jewish

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Wednesday, February 28, 2018

Touretteshero’s Jess Thom: ‘Disabled people need to be written in, not written out’ by Natasha Tripney

Jess Thom’s Backstage in Biscuit Land, a witty celebration of her experience of living with Tourette’s, was an Edinburgh Fringe hit in

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Love from a Stranger review at Royal and Derngate, Northampton – ‘a taut thriller’ by Natasha Tripney

Agatha Christie knew how to keep an audience on its toes. The art of concealment is key to this: what you keep

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Monday, February 26, 2018

Harold and Maude review at Charing Cross Theatre, London – ‘an amiable staging’ by Natasha Tripney

Though it has cult status now, Hal Ashby’s film about the unconventional relationship between a teenage boy and a 79-year-old woman met

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Work Makes You Free review at Vaults, London – ‘promising and timely’ by Natasha Tripney

Work plays a huge role in most people’s lives. As a society, we assign different values to different types of work and

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Thursday, February 22, 2018

Brighton Rock review at York Theatre Royal – ‘propulsive and atmospheric’ by Natasha Tripney

It’s easy to see why playwright Bryony Lavery would be drawn to Graham Greene’s Brighton Rock – a book that combines a

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Tuesday, February 20, 2018

Frozen review at Theatre Royal Haymarket, London – ‘struggles to fill the stage’ by Natasha Tripney

Bryony Lavery’s 1998 study of crime, punishment and people’s capacity to forgive is a tautly constructed chamber-piece. But it is not treated

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Monday, February 19, 2018

Elsa review at Vaults, London – ‘sweetly skewers millennial angst’ by Natasha Tripney

Isobel Rogers’ solo show sees her sitting on a stool with her guitar in one of the more oppressively damp spaces at

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All that Chat

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
TBA: Titanic
TBA: Ragtime