Stage + Reviews
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4 out of 5 stars.Tchaikovsky’s score gets a Latin makeover and Cuban dance styles combine with classical ballet in this joyful and colourful festive family show
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4 out of 5 stars.
Summer 1954 review – Rattigan double bill packs an intellectual and emotional punch
4 out of 5 stars.Men struggling to hide their feelings are uncloaked in James Dacre’s astute revival of the playwright’s Table Number Seven and The Browning Version
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3 out of 5 stars.Rae Mainwaring’s award-winning drama about a young woman with multiple sclerosis is given a playful touring production
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4 out of 5 stars.Sanaz Toossi’s intimate play follows a group of friends during the Islamic Revolution of 1979 and beyond as they get married, have children and experience loss
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3 out of 5 stars.Adding a fourth role to Peter Sellers’ three turns in the classic film, the comic excels in a fun yet unadventurous adaptation
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4 out of 5 stars.Poking fun at Indian politicians present and past, and delighting in the UK’s decline, the low-key comic delivers some bulletproof material
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3 out of 5 stars.
The New Real review – the spin doctors fight it out in David Edgar’s sweeping political satire
3 out of 5 stars.Two American strategists compete to influence an eastern European election in a nuanced new play that suffers from tackling too many subjects
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2 out of 5 stars.Two sides of the same event are explored in Richard Bean’s drama – one haunting, one comedic – but they don’t really fit together
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3 out of 5 stars.
Othello review – RSC’s sculptural, a-capella-scored production unfolds with rare clarity
3 out of 5 stars.John Douglas Thomas and Juliet Rylance reprise their New York roles as Othello and Desdemona, while Will Keen is all gripe and snipe as shaven-headed Iago -
3 out of 5 stars.
Quiet Songs review – slow-motion swordfights and total darkness as a bullied boy faces his desires
3 out of 5 stars.Finn Beames and Company’s show is overwrought but features a fine performance from Oscar-nominated actor Ruth Negga, playing a queer boy struggling to fit in -
3 out of 5 stars.West Side Story’s Rachel Zegler and Heartstopper’s Kit Connor lift an aggressively poppy new youth take on the tragic romance
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4 out of 5 stars.
0800 Cupid review – feverish, fantastical soup of pop-star glam hides a life falling apart
4 out of 5 stars.Emer Dineen’s semi-autobiographical show blurs the lines between raucous cabaret and memoir as her alter ego struggles with an existential crisis
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Golden Blood review – orphaned siblings navigate criminal underworld in pacy, pulpy drama
3 out of 5 stars.