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The Kite Runner
05 Sep
Phil Willmott

The Kite Runner flies into town

The Kite Runner This winter, as we reported earlier this week, London theatre goers can look forward to a stage adaption of THE KITE RUNNER, one of the most beloved books of this century.

The Kite Runner was a first novel by Khaled Hosseini and really struck a chord with readers all over the world. It's setting is specific, Afghanistan, but it's themes of friendship and redemption and single parent family life are so universal that it speaks to people the world over.

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Buried Child - Trafalgar Studios
02 Sep
New Shows
Phil Willmott

An Exciting Autumn Line up at Trafalgar Studios

Buried Child - Trafalgar Studios There are exciting rumours about the autumn season at Trafalgar studios with more details available soon. Here’s what we know so far!

The line up looks set to include BURIED CHILD, Sam Shepard’s gleefully gothic tale of dysfunctional rural American life.

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Half a Sixpence
01 Sep
News
Phil Willmott

Half a Sixpence comes to London

Half a Sixpence I'm very excited to here at the Chichester Festival Theatre’s production of the classic British musical HALF A SIXPENCE is transferring to the West End.

It was a big hit in the West End and on Broadway in the 1960s and there was a popular film starring Tommy Steele but it’s always been a financial disaster when it’s been revived since. Regional tours and a big revival at West Yorkshire playhouse just didn’t attract an audience.

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Hamilton The Musical
01 Sep
Broadway Shows
Davor Golub

HAMILTON at the Richard Rodgers Theatre, Broadway

Hamilton The Musical How does one even attempt to review HAMILTON? In the United States the show has become a theatrical phenomenon unlike any I have experienced in my forty years of theatergoing. It has won 11 Tony Awards including Best Musical, the Pulitzer Prize, has hundreds of teens attending its weekly Ham4Ham concert outside the theatre’s stage door and can command thousands of dollars per ticket for a prime orchestra seat.

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Unfaithful
01 Sep
Reviews
Stacey Tyler

Review: UNFAITHFUL at FOUND111

Unfaithful FOUND111 is a beautifully intimate pop up theatre in the centre of London’s West End and is the perfect venue for the London Premiere of Unfaithful, a relatively new play by Owen McCafferty, which was first commissioned at The Traverse Theatre in 2014.

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