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Review: Tamzin Outhwaite’s Beverly oozes flirtation, condescension and disdain in this touring revival of Mike Leigh’s 1970s suburban satire
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Avenue Q review: this puppet musical revival revisits housing stress, job hunting and loneliness, and show the stress of being a twenty-something is still relevant.
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Review: Liz Richardson’s solo Cumbria memory-play is strongest on family and loss, though its most interesting ideas about identity deserve more room to breathe.
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Review: Tender at the Bush Theatre, Francesca Amewudah-Rivers as Ash is utterly riveting, delivering diary-like narration with a natural charm and flair that is entirely believable.
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Review: Sorkin’s To Kill a Mockingbird at Wyndham’s questions Finch’s flaws and asks its audience to re-examine what they’ve internalised too.
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Review: Archduke at the Royal Court; Three boys are radicalised into assassins, yet the play never convincingly shows us that transformation
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Review; Broadway Theatre Catford showcases “Last Goal Wins”, a compelling exploration of identity and competition in football and launch play of the Ryan Calais Cameron season
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Review: Kinky Boots at the London Coliseum dazzles visually but struggles with storytelling clarity, particularly for newcomers unfamiliar with the plot.
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Review: Relics, Ben Ockrent’s black comedy puts four siblings in a room, dividing up their late mother’s things, no parent left to arbitrate. Grieving siblings are a volatile combination.
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Review: Manuel Flores’ “Rayuela” combines traditional and contemporary flamenco and finishes out the Sadler’s Wells flamenco festival
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Review: Every performance of Lost the Plot is completely different. One audience suggestion, no script, no score, and a brand new musical created on the spot. Great fun.
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Review: Sending up history’s most powerful rulers is a British art form. Monarchs Anonymous does this through group therapy
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Review: Barnum, Richmond Theatre – a joyous night at the circus, with not quite enough to story to carry it through
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Review: Martina Laird’s debut play Driftwood at Kiln Theatre – rum, secrets and survival.
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Review: Hot Pot, twenty years on, four friends, one pot, and an examination of where our choices lead us
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Review: Glengarry Glen Ross at the Old Vic features an all-female cast in Mamet’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, directed by Patrick Marber
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Review; Shantify, a nautical Choir of Man. Feel-good theatre that knows exactly what it is.
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Review: Before I’m Dead at The Glitch is funny, fiercely human and dignified – a moving story in an intimate space
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