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Our Country's Good
27 Apr
Reviews
Stuart King

Review: OUR COUNTRY’S GOOD at the Theatre Royal Stratford East

Our Country's Good As supplies dwindle, a newly appointed New South Wales Governor is under pressure from his marines to maintain discipline among the convicts. He wrestles with his decision to allow a young lieutenant to direct a play to boost morale and keep their charges occupied.

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Strictly Ballroom London - PERHAPS PERHAPS - photo by Johan Persson
26 Apr
Reviews
Hugh Wooldridge

Review: Baz Luhrmann’s STRICTLY BALLROOM The Musical at The Piccadilly Theatre

To create a great musical, all the stars in the creative firmament have to align: all the artistic and technical departments in a collaborative art-form involving, perhaps, a hundred people, have to coalesce as one. This they did at the Piccadilly Theatre on Tuesday night though, strictly speaking, Baz Luhrmann’s Strictly Ballroom The Musical is not a musical, it is a heavily disguised play with music.

Strictly Ballroom London - PERHAPS PERHAPS - photo by Johan PerssonStrictly Ballroom London - PERHAPS PERHAPS - photo by Johan Persson

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The Break A Leggers - Bat Out Of Hell
26 Apr
Reviews
The Break A Leggers

Video review: BAT OUT OUF HELL at the Dominion Theatre

The Break A Leggers - Bat Out Of Hell The Break A Leggers review Jim Steinman’s Bat Out of Hell The Musical at the Dominion Theatre in London’s West End. Will it be Break A Leg? Or Leg It!

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West End Eurovision
23 Apr
Reviews
Stuart King

Review: WEST END EUROVISION, Shaftesbury Theatre

West End Eurovision It’s been four years since the last staging of West End Eurovision in which casts from 8 established shows frenziedly compete whilst raising money for MAD.

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Faceless - Park Theatre
23 Apr
Reviews
Stuart King

Review: FACELESS at The Park Theatre

Faceless - Park Theatre An empathic and idealistic Chicago teenager is convinced online to convert to Islam (by means of Twitter) and travel to Syria, but is arrested before she can leave America.

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