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18 Mar
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Stuart King

Review: THE WAY OLD FRIENDS DO at Park Theatre

Park Theatre once again acts as a showcase for a wonderfully uplifting frolic — this time sporting platform shoes, blue eye shadow and fake beards — brought to you courtesy of the husband and husband team of Ian Hallard and Mark Gatiss.

James Bradshaw (Edward) and Andrew Horton (Christian) - The Way Old Friends Do - credit Darren Bell

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After the Act (Photo by Alex Brenner) EM Williams, Ellice Stevens, Tika Mu'tamir, Zachary Willis
09 Mar
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Stuart King

Review: AFTER THE ACT at New Diorama Theatre

On a cold and wet London evening, the bijou, ultra-modern, glass-fronted, New Diorama Theatre acts as a beacon of light in Euston’s otherwise monochrome and largely sterile urban corpora-scape. Currently playing host to AFTER THE ACT— subtitled: A Section 28 Musical — the venue also serves as a beacon for liberally-themed, thought-provoking (and even memory inducing) newly commissioned work.

After the Act (Photo by Alex Brenner) EM Williams, Ellice Stevens, Tika Mu'tamir, Zachary Willis After the Act (Photo by Alex Brenner) EM Williams, Ellice Stevens, Tika Mu'tamir, Zachary Willis

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07 Mar
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Stuart King

Review: UNDER THE BLACK ROCK at Arcola

A giant, ominous black rock is suspended by ropes above the playing area in the staging of a new and hard-hitting drama about The Troubles by Tim Edge. Twenty-Five years after the Good Friday Agreement finally brought to an end the decades of bloodshed in Northern Ireland, UNDER THE BLACK ROCK serves as a timely reminder of what’s at stake.

Under the Black Rock. Photo credit Gregory Haney.

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06 Mar
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Eleni Cashell

Review: TINA: THE TINA TURNER MUSICAL at Aldwych Theatre

Now in its fifth year in the West End, TINA: THE TINA TURNER MUSICAL tells the remarkable true story of Tina Turner's rise to fame.

Running at the Aldwych Theatre, this is a unique jukebox musical that isn't scared to delve into difficult themes including racism and spousal abuse to highlight Turner's tough journey to stardom and her extraordinary courage and drive to succeed.

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Greg Hicks (Andrew Carnes), Philip Olagoke (Cord Elam) and Georgina Onuorah (Ado Annie) in Oklahoma! Photo by Marc Brenner
01 Mar
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Stuart King

Review: OKLAHOMA! at Wyndhams Theatre

On a brightly lit, pine wood stage which extends to the facia panels on the walls and boxes around the Wyndham’s auditorium, (effectively rendering them like cheap Western coffin lids) the banjo, guitar and string-strumming band members remain in full sight of the audience from the get go in this production of spectacular extremes. It’s certainly Oklahoma! as you’ve never seen it before, or indeed heard it…or once loved it.

Greg Hicks (Andrew Carnes), Philip Olagoke (Cord Elam) and Georgina Onuorah (Ado Annie) in Oklahoma! Photo by Marc BrennerGreg Hicks (Andrew Carnes), Philip Olagoke (Cord Elam) and Georgina Onuorah (Ado Annie) in Oklahoma! Photo by Marc Brenner.

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