“The first pretend Tory I’ve ever almost-liked.” Gillian Greer reviews Stephen Brown’s new play about MP Rory Stewart.
OWE & Fringe
11 May 2017
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Review: The Pulverised
May 2 - May 27
By Brendan Macdonald
Surprisingly stagnant: Brendan Macdonald reviews the UK premiere of Alexandra Badea’s award-winning play about the effects of globalisation.
10 May 2017
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Review: Tick, tick… Boom! at the Park Theatre
3 - 27 May 2017
By Eleanor Turney
Sound issues aside, Eleanor Turney still has a “highly entertaining” evening with the Park Theatre’s staging of Jonathan Larson’s early musical.
9 May 2017
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Review: A Lie of the Mind at Southwark Playhouse
4 - 27 May, 2017
By Corrie Tan
Corrie Tan finds that “Shepard’s 1985 text still glitters with despair and devastation.”
9 May 2017
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Review: Madame Rubinstein at the Park Theatre
April 26 - May 27
By B. L. Sherrington
Serious issues, plenty of humour: B. L. Sherrington is all made up by John Misto’s new three-handed comedy about two pioneers of the cosmetics industry.
8 May 2017
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Review: Dogs Don’t Do Ballet at Little Angel Theatre
April 22 - July 16
By Miriam Gillinson
My first theatre trip: Miriam Gillinson takes her two-year-old nephew to see Little Angel’s adaptation of Anna Kemp’s children’s book, and goes just a little bit bonkers.
1 May 2017
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Review: Home Truths at The Bunker
April 17 - May 13
By Gillian Greer
Demands to be heard: Gillian Greer, sustained only by artisanal fudge, sees nine plays in one day as part of Cardboard Citizens’ incomplete history of housing.
1 May 2017
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Review: While We’re Here at the Bush Theatre
May 1 - May 27
By Gillian Greer
The past is a strange country: Gillian Greer admires the gentle craftsmanship of Barney Norris’ new two-hander, the inaugural production in the Bush’s new studio space.
30 April 2017
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Review: City of Glass at Lyric Hammersmith
21 Apr ‐ 20 May 2017
By Eleanor Turney
Searching for meaning among the chaos: Eleanor Turney reviews Duncan Macmillan’s adaptation of Paul Auster’s book.
24 April 2017
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Review: Spring Offensive at Clapham Omnibus Theatre
April 18 - April 30
By Francesca Street
Uneven, albeit thought-provoking: Victoria Willing’s new three-hander gets lost on the battlefields of the Somme, says Francesca Street.
20 April 2017
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Review: Guards at the Taj at the Bush Theatre
April 7 - May 20
By David Ralf
A stage awash with blood and smoke: David Ralf delves into the uneasy moralities at play in Jamie Lloyd’s production of Rajiv Joseph’s brutal two-hander.
15 April 2017
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Review: Betroffenheit at Sadler’s Wells
11 - 12 April 2017
By Anna Winter
“A profoundly imaginative, sad and humorous exploration of agony and loss, of meaning and its absence”. Anna Winter reviews Crystal Pite’s dance-theatre piece.
14 April 2017
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Review: The Plague at the Arcola Theatre
Arcola Theatre ⋄ 5 April - 6 May 2017
By Brendan Macdonald
Neil Bartlett brings to life “infuriating bureaucratic non-speak” in his adaptation of Albert Camus’s La Peste.
11 April 2017
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Review: I Capture the Castle at Watford Palace Theatre
Watford Palace Theatre ⋄ March 31 - April 22
By B. L. Sherrington
The idealism of childhood dreams: B. L. Sherrington finds love in this musical adaptation of Dodie Smith’s 1948 novel.
7 April 2017
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Review: Early Adventures at Sadler’s Wells
Sadler's Wells ⋄ 3 - 8 April 2017
By Anna Winter
Like Brideshead without the grief: Anna Winter reviews a revival of Matthew Bourne’s younger creations.