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Summer & Smoke
22 Nov
New Shows
Stuart King

Preview Report: SUMMER AND SMOKE at the Duke of York’s Theatre

The Almeida’s acclaimed production of Tennessee Williams’ SUMMER AND SMOKE has transferred this week to the Duke of York’s Theatre for a limited West End season.

Summer & SmokeMatthew Needham (John) and Patsy Ferran (Alma) in Summer & Smoke.

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The Movies in my Mind
21 Nov
Reviews
Bj McNeill

Review: Cazeleon’S THE MOVIES IN MY MIND at The Glory

The Movies in my Mind A captivating, multidimensional & camp endeavor of identity, self-discovery &acceptance backed by killer vocals. All glamour on first glance The Movies In My Mind strips away the glitter (or in Cazeleon’s case, the grey), serves us current gender & identity politics & reminds us that drag is not just an artifice but a life, liberation & most of all empowering.

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Love Lies Bleeding
21 Nov
Reviews
Hugo Nicholson

Review: LOVE-LIES-BLEEDING at The Print Room at The Coronet

Love Lies Bleeding Despite first being staged in in 2005, Don DeLillo's Love-Lies-Bleeding - receiving its UK debut at The Print Room at The Coronet - feels timely and totally contemporary. This perhaps owes a lot to the nature of the issues explored at the play's core, though it's also testament to DeLillo's writing, Jack McNamara's powerful staging, and strong performances from each of the cast.

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Tamsin Greig in Pinter Four at the Harold Pinter Theatre
14 Nov
Reviews
Tim Winter

Review: PINTER 3 at the Harold Pinter Theatre

Tamsin Greig in Pinter Four at the Harold Pinter Theatre The ambitious six month, star-studded Pinter at the Pinter season continues apace with Pinter 3, an evening of 11 works by the playwright written between 1959 and 1997.

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Hadestown - National Theatre
14 Nov
Reviews
Phil Willmott

Review: HADESTOWN at the National Theatre

Hadestown - National Theatre The folksy musical HADESTOWN arrives at the main stage of our National Theatre with a great deal of expectation appropriate to a piece which began as a low key acoustic set of songs which were picked up and developed by some very prestigious North American Theatres until it made a stir in NYC.

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