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Grief is the Thing with Feathers
27 Mar
Reviews
Stuart King

Review: GRIEF IS THE THING WITH FEATHERS at the Barbican Theatre

Grief is the Thing with Feathers There are plenty of things to entice theatregoers to Edna Walsh’s adaptation of Max Porter's acclaimed novel - not least the star power of Cillian Murphy and the involvement of Simon McBurney’s renowned theatre troupe Complicité.

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Mary's Babies
24 Mar
Reviews
Stuart King

Review: MARY'S BABIES at Jermyn Street Theatre

Mary's Babies Katy Stephens and Emma Fielding adopt a schizophrenic approach to Maud Dromgoole's play derived from the questionable practices used at an early, unregulated Human Fertility Treatment clinic.

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Stephen Sondheim - Andrew Lloyd Webber
24 Mar
News
Phil Willmott

Lloyd Webber v Sondheim. Who’s best?

Stephen Sondheim - Andrew Lloyd Webber These two guys have dominated musical theatre writing for the last half century. Their style is as different as chalk is to cheese but both celebrated birthdays recently (on March 22nd the populist, Lloyd Webber, was 71 and the sophisticate, Sondheim, was 89) so let’s have fun frivolously comparing and contrasting.

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Downstate - Dorfman Theatre - National Theatre
21 Mar
Reviews
Stuart King

Review: DOWNSTATE at the Dorfman (National Theatre)

Chicago and Broadway theatre audiences long ago learned the benefits of exposing themselves to the taboo subjects and aching moral dilemmas explored in Steppenwolf productions, but will Londoners embrace the opportunity with equal gusto on this occasion?

Downstate - Dorfman Theatre - National Theatre Francis Guinan (Fred), Glenn Davis (Gio), Celilia Noble (Ivy), Eddie Torres (Felix) and K. Todd Freeman (Dee) in Downstate. Photo by Michael Brosilow

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Frozen the Disney Musical
19 Mar
New Shows
Phil Willmott

Disney’s Frozen Transfers to London – But Will They Improve It?

Frozen the Disney Musical It’s been announced that the Broadway musical based on Disney's massive hit movie musical will transfer to London, opening at a newly refurbished Theatre Royal Drury Lane this autumn.

The press release landed in our in-box at 7am with a typically breathless round up of stats and comments from the key people involved.

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