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Reviews
10 Nov
Reviews
Phil Willmott

Review of Dance 'til Dawn

Dance Till Dawn If you’re looking for an undemanding night of fun and glamour this is the show for you. It hasn’t had a lot of press attention, a victim of snobbery from both theatre critics and dance critics who’ve largely ignored it’s arrival in town but don’t let that put you off, it’s their loss.

Vincent and Flavia are two former stars of the TV show STRICTLY COME DANCING, they’re so popular that canny producer Adam Spiegel has spotted they could fill big theatres and got them together with the award winning choreographer and director, Karen Bruce to fashion a fun show that showcases their talent. They don’t sing or act but boy, do they dance!

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New Shows
04 Nov
New Shows
Oliver Mitford

Bend it like Beckham musical becomes a reality

Bend it like Beckham Rumours have been circulating for years about the possibility of a stage musical adaptation of the cult British film Bend it Like Beckham. The wait is now over, as it has been confirmed that the new musical will open at the Phoenix Theatre in May 2015.

Bend it Like Beckham was a 2002 British comedy-drama film directed by Gurinder Chadha and stared Keira Knightly, Parminder Nagra, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Anupam Kher and Archie Panjabi. The film was a massive box office success, not only in the UK, but also around the world.

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News
03 Nov
News
Oliver Mitford

Michael Flatley returns to the West End

Lord of the Dance: Dangerous Games After a hugely successful world tour, Michael Flatley’s Lord of the Dance: Dangerous Games will hop, skip and jump into the Dominion Theatre in March 2015 for a limited six-month run.

The show has also just finished wowing audiences at the London Palladium, where the production gave its final bow on Saturday 25 October.

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Reviews
31 Oct
Reviews
Phil Willmott

Review of The Scottsboro Boys at the Garrick Theatre

The Scottsboro Boys This is the second brilliant musical dealing with past American racism to open in the West End this autumn and London is enriched as a result. Not just because of the issues raised but because MEMPHIS and now SCOTTSBORO BOYS are examples of how skilled writers, creatives and actors are proving beyond a doubt that great musical theatre can be intelligent, original and provocative yet also be very, very entertaining.

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Taken at Midnight
30 Oct
New Shows
Oliver Mitford

New play Taken at Midnight transfers to the West End

Taken at Midnight Mark Hayhurst’s new play, Taken at Midnight premiered at the Chichester Festival Theatre in September. It has now been announced that the play will transfer to the Theatre Royal Haymarket in the heart of London’s West End from 15 January 2015, following the National Theatre's production of Great Britain.

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