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Grease the Musical
18 May
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Stuart King

Review: GREASE at the Dominion Theatre

Grease the Musical Set at the fictional Rydell High, GREASE — the perennial first crush, school musical — has previously enjoyed long runs at London theatres in the early 1970s (before the film’s release) and again in the early 1990s. This year the show celebrates 50 years since it first appeared on Broadway and to mark the milestone, a new production directed by Nikolai Foster and choreographed by West End stalwart Arlene Phillips, has just opened at the Dominion Theatre.

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Frances Mayli McCann (Bonnie) and Jordan Luke Gage (Clyde) in Bonnie & Clyde The Musical at the Arts Theatre
13 May
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Review: BONNIE AND CLYDE at the Arts Theatre

Great Depression era outlaws Bonnie Elizabeth Parker and Clyde Chestnut Barrow were immortalised in the news reports of the day and subsequently in literature, songs and later still, the iconic 1967 movie starring Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway. The Arts Theatre now plays host to the musical version of the romantic couple’s criminal exploits, which enjoyed a brief run on Broadway over a decade ago.

Frances Mayli McCann (Bonnie) and Jordan Luke Gage (Clyde) in Bonnie & Clyde The Musical at the Arts Theatre Frances Mayli McCann (Bonnie) and Jordan Luke Gage (Clyde) in Bonnie & Clyde The Musical at the Arts Theatre.

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Dom Juan - The Vaults
13 May
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Review: DOM JUAN at The Vaults, Waterloo

Dom Juan - The Vaults It is entirely appropriate that the Theatre Lab Company are staging the playboy exploits of Molière’s famously unrepentant philanderer, at the quintessentially seedy and bohemian Vaults in Waterloo.

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(Norina) Pretty Yende Don Pasquale (Don Pasquale) Lucio Gallo Don Pasquale © 2022 ROH. Photograph by Bill Cooper
08 May
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Review: DON PASQUALE at Royal Opera House

Gaetano Donizetti’s comic opera Don Pasquale - first performed in early January 1843 in Paris - ended the opera buffa period on a high note. Its hugely successful premiere which included 4 of the most renowned singers of the day has remained a popular inclusion in the operatic repertoire to this day, despite a few noticeable periods of absence when it inexplicably fell out of fashion.

(Norina) Pretty Yende Don Pasquale (Don Pasquale) Lucio Gallo Don Pasquale © 2022 ROH. Photograph by Bill CooperPretty Yende (Norina) and Lucio Gallo (Don Pasquale) in Don Pasquale at the Royal Opera House © 2022 ROH. Photograph by Bill Cooper.

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La Veronal - Pasionaria
05 May
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Review: LA VERONAL PASIONARIA at Sadler’s Wells

La Veronal - Pasionaria Marcos Morau’s troupe La Veronal had the National Dance Award bestowed upon it by the Spanish Ministry of Culture in 2015 and has produced bizarrely compelling work which defies definition and categorisation, ever since.

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