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The Doctor
05 Feb
News
Josephine Balfour-Oatts

THE DOCTOR and THE WATSONS Transfer to London's West End

The Doctor2020 is proving to be an incredible year for theatre. Adding to the excitement is Robert Icke's The Doctor and Laura Wade's The Watsons, with both bound for the West End in a few months time. 

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Alice's Adventures Under Ground - © ROH 2020. Photo by Clive Barda (Featuring Claudia Boyle as Alice)
05 Feb
Reviews
Stuart King

Review: ALICE’S ADVENTURES UNDER GROUND at The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden

Alice's Adventures Under Ground - © ROH 2020. Photo by Clive Barda (Featuring Claudia Boyle as Alice) Composer and librettist Gerald Barry, has concocted a surrealist world using as its basis, an amalgamation of Lewis Carroll’s Alice stories. The result is a riotous, fast-paced, fantastically energetic, kaleidoscopic Wonderland, for all ages, (though perhaps not all ears)!

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John Kani as Lunga Kunene and Antony Sher as Jack Morris in Kunene and the King. Photo by Ellie Kurttz
05 Feb
Reviews
Miriam Gibson

Review: KUNENE AND THE KING at The Ambassadors Theatre

In contemporary South Africa, Jack Morris is an aging alcoholic actor, recently diagnosed with liver cancer. He's dying, but determined to stay alive long enough to star in King Lear. Lunga Kunene is the professional nurse sent to care for him. Jack is white. Kunene is black.

John Kani as Lunga Kunene and Antony Sher as Jack Morris in Kunene and the King. Photo by Ellie KurttzJohn Kani as Lunga Kunene and Antony Sher as Jack Morris in Kunene and the King. Photo by Ellie Kurttz. © RSC

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Hairspray
04 Feb
News
Josephine Balfour-Oatts

HAIRSPRAY: PAUL MERTON Makes West End Debut Alongside MICHAEL BALL

HairsprayHave we got news for you: this spring, comedy icon Paul Merton is set to make his West End debut in Hairspray. Is it April yet?

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Faustus: That Damned Woman
04 Feb
Reviews
Justin Murray

Review: FAUSTUS: THAT DAMNED WOMAN at the Lyric Hammersmith

In the Hammersmith Lyric’s Faustus: That Damned Woman, Johanna Faustus does not have the title of Doctor when we first meet her. She’s just Johanna the apothecary’s daughter, obsessed with her mother, hanged as a witch.

Faustus: That Damned WomanJodie McNee as Johanna Faustus in Faustus: That Damned Woman at the Lyric Hammersmith. Photo by Manuel Harlan.

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