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Review: The Children Meera Syal leads Lucy Kirkwood’s nuclear drama revival, pleasant company but squandering its big idea.
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Review: Blacbrik’s full-length dance show, Brown Suite, at Richmond Theatre has heart and James Brown’s soul, but the story is a little unclear
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Review of Jess & Morgs’ DEEPFAKE at Sadler’s Wells: clever live video and dance on politics and truth, but needs trimming.
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Review: Flamenc Oh!!, Yllana pits flamenco against modern music in a dance comedy at Sadler’s Wells Peacock Theatre
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Review: Thelma & Louise: A New Musical at the Young Vic boasts strong performances but loses the glorious scale of the film
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Review: Caroline – a new musical brings Britain’s pirate radio revolution to the stage, packed with 1960s hits. Reviewed via a digital stream.
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Review: Michelle Dockery stars in Ava Pickett’s fierce Essex-set Helen of Troy, cleverly using myth to examine modern misogyny and violence.
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Review: The First Year (of the Gaza Genocide in the Media) is fiercely ambitious media, strongest when letting individual testimony speak
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Review: Private Peaceful, Benjamin Cain enacts a huge repertoire of characters alone on stage in this Michael Morpurgo WWI vigil
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Review: Electra/ Persona at the National Theatre is a showcase of its two stars’ talent, but does not sufficiently justify the union of the two pieces.
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Review: The Pass at the new and intimate Pearly Queen Theatre immerses audiences in footballer Jason’s emotional journey, exploring sexuality and isolation.
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Review: Currently at Sadler’s Wells, sixty-eight years old and Alvin Ailey’s Amercian Dance Theatre still feels relevant and fresh. Revelations proving a transcendent centrepiece.
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Review: Linnea Berthelsen is fiercely brave in Darkling, a devastating Bhopal disaster one-woman play by Titas Halder at Bush Theatre.
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Review: The Yard Theatre production is a welcome opportunity to see Ntozake Shange’s seminal For Colored Girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf
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Review: Tartuffe (Remixed) modernises Molière’s play, exploring faith and manipulation in a Nigerian/ Jamaican family context and showcasing talented new actors from the Intermission charity.
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Review: The Tempest on the Golden Hinde (part of the Totally Thames Festival) is a genuine celebration of the boat, the area and Shakespeare.
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Review: Death Note at the Barbican is visually stunning but has lost some of the nuance and cultural specificity of the anime original
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Review: Cats at the Open Air Theatre is a piece of whimsical, light-hearted fun with a fiercely feline but also immensely vigorous ensemble
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