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A Strange Loop – The Barbican Theatre
★★★★☆ This Pulitzer and Tony award winning musical has finally arrived in London for a limited run over the summer at the Barbican Theatre. To quote the opening number, this is a ‘big black queer-ass Broadway show’. Like the many of the audience at the Barbican theatre I suspect that I don’t fit into those…
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Operation Mincemeat – The Fortune Theatre
★★★★★ A musical about a rather whacky World War II plot with a small cast playing a multiple array of characters, all of them playing at least one male character and one female character? Hmm, doesn’t sound like that will work. Oh boy, does it work! If you’ve been asleep in the world of theatre…
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Groundhog Day – The Old Vic
★★★★★ I was not lucky enough to see this show in its first incarnation at the Old Vic in 2016 and so when a return was announced, and being a fan of the film, I jumped at the chance to book tickets. For those who aren’t aware, this musical, with music and lyrics by Tim…
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Much Ado About Nothing – Unbound @ Waddesdon Manor
★★★★☆ As Shakespeare once said – though not in this particular play – ‘all the world’s a stage’: we all play roles in life. But this phrase can be taken another way. Theatre is all around us and creates magic wherever we are. It could be at a big West End theatre with elaborate set…
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Antigone – Arts1 School of Performing Arts
★★★★★ We all go to the theatre and are regularly amazed by the level of the performances that we see. Actors who have trained and are at the peak of their careers. We often take this for granted. But we don’t often think about the next generation of performers and where they will come from.…
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The Lehman Trilogy – The Gillian Lynne Theatre
★★★★★ You have to admit – this doesn’t sound like an appealing premise. A three hour, three act play about the collapse of a bank that caused the financial crash in 2008. However with Olivier nominations and Tony awards this comes with a pretty solid reputation. Originally opening at the National Theatre in 2018 and…
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