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Tammy Faye the Musical
28 Oct
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Stuart King

Review: TAMMY FAYE at Almeida

Tammy Faye the Musical When news of its existence began circulating many moons ago, there seemed something delightfully subversive about the prospect of Elton John and Jake Shears combining their songwriting talents to create a musical based on the tumultuous life of one of the Christian Evangelical movement’s most unforgettable, beloved, pilloried, reviled and eventually rehabilitated television personalities, Tammy Faye Bakker.

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Miles Molan, Phoebe Pryce, Theo Fraser Steele, Olivia Darnley,  Freddie Gaminara - Photographer Mitzide Margary
24 Oct
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Stuart King

Review: A SINGLE MAN at Park Theatre

Tom Ford electrified the movie world in 2009 with his gorgeously soft-focussed, cinematic adaptation of Christopher Isherwood’s novel about a bereaved gay teacher, set in the early 1960s amidst Santa Monica’s swinging set.

Miles Molan, Phoebe Pryce, Theo Fraser Steele, Olivia Darnley,  Freddie Gaminara - Photographer Mitzide MargaryMiles Molan, Phoebe Pryce, Theo Fraser Steele, Olivia Darnley, Freddie Gaminara - Photographer Mitzi de Margary.

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My Neighbour Totoro
19 Oct
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Miriam Gibson

Review: MY NEIGHBOUR TOTORO at the Barbican Theatre

My Neighbour Totoro There are two types of people in the world: people who love Studio Ghibli movies, and people who’ve never heard of them. My Neighbour Totoro will be most loved by the former group, but just about enjoyable by the latter.

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David Tennant and Sharon Small in GOOD at the Harold Pinter Theatre, Directed by Dominic Cooke, Photographer Johan Persson
18 Oct
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Stuart King

Review: GOOD at Harold Pinter Theatre

David Tennant must be one of our hardest working actors. He never seems to be off our televisions, cinema screens, West End stages and the radio. Here’s your chance to catch him live and in-person, every evening until 24th December as he leads a revival of C.P. Taylor’s hard-hitting play GOOD which was first performed at the Donmar Warehouse back in 1981. But be warned, this is far from frivolous fluff.

David Tennant and Sharon Small in GOOD at the Harold Pinter Theatre, Directed by Dominic Cooke, Photographer Johan PerssonDavid Tennant and Sharon Small in GOOD at the Harold Pinter Theatre, Directed by Dominic Cooke, Photographer Johan Persson

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Mei (Mei Mac), Satsuki (Ami Okumura Jones) and Tatsuo (Dai Tabuchi). Photo by Manuel Harlan © RSC with Nippon TV.
14 Oct
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Stuart King

Review: MY NEIGHBOUR TOTORO at Barbican

After considerable advance publicity and marketing, the RSC’s joint venture with Joe Hisaishi to bring MY NEIGHBOUR TOTORO to the stage, has opened and given early audiences and reviewers much to ponder.

Mei (Mei Mac), Satsuki (Ami Okumura Jones) and Tatsuo (Dai Tabuchi). Photo by Manuel Harlan © RSC with Nippon TV.Mei (Mei Mac), Satsuki (Ami Okumura Jones) and Tatsuo (Dai Tabuchi). Photo by Manuel Harlan © RSC with Nippon TV.

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