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Theatre Review: Someone To Blame (King’s Head Theatre, London)

Rating: **** This is a verbatim play – meaning that everything said on stage was uttered in real life – about the wrongful murder conviction of a 17-year old boy eight years ago, how truly screwed up this country...
by Jake Basford
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Theatre Review: The Awkward Squad (The Arts Theatre)

If you put four feisty Geordie birds from three generations of one working class family in a council house living room in the North East, there’s going to be fireworks.  Karin Young’s The Awkward Squad is set in Lorna’s ...
by Thomas Magill
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Theatre Review: A Bowl of Cherries (Charing Cross Theatre, London)

James samples 'A Bowl of Cherries', a new musical by David Martin and Crolyn Pertwee, only to find it decidedly sour.
by James Waygood
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Theatre Review: Rainer Hersch’s Victor Borge (Jermyn Street Theatre, London)

Rating: *** Victor Borge is considered to be one of the world’s most notable and recognised musical comedians. With a tremendous amount of talent on the piano, as well as an almost perfect comic timing, he took the world ...
by Scott McMullon
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Interview: Carolyn Rowe as Dame Shirley Bassey

Thomas Magill chats to Carolyn Rowe, star of Shirley Bassey: A Musical Celebration.
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Theatre Review: The Bacchae

Rating: *** Originally written by Euripides in Ancient Greece, Ranjit Bolt’s translation of ‘The Bacchae’ – a classic Greek tragedy about what happens as a result of spitting in the eye of Dionysus and d...
by Jake Basford
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Theatre Review: Patience (Union Theatre, London)

Jon Hornbuckle reviews Patience at London's Union Theatre and is impressed with what he finds.
by Jon Hornbuckle
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Opera Review: The Death of Klinghoffer (London Coliseum, London)

James picks through John Adams opera on the 1985 highjacking of cruise ship Achille Lauro by Palestinian freedom fighters, and the murder of Leon Klinghoffer.
by James Waygood
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Theatre Guide: March

There’s an old saying that March ‘comes in like a lion and out like a lamb’ as a reference to the onset of spring.  Well, for theatreland this month, it too promises to pounce like a lion – but unlike the weather, ...
by Thomas Magill
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