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Sylvia – The Old Vic
★★★★☆ Sylvia has been described as the British Hamilton. This is a phrase that has also been used to describe Six, though it is definitely more apt when applied to Sylvia. Written back in 2018 this musical, with book by Katie Prince and Priya Parker, with music by Josh Cohen and DJ Walde and lyrics…
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Newsies – Troubadour Wembley Park Theatre
★★★★★ This musical adaptation of Disney’s Newsies movie has been a long time coming to the UK, having opened on Broadway in 2012. When this production was announced it was slated to be an immersive in the round production, very different to the Broadway one (which can currently be seen on Disney+). So was it worth the…
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Hex – The Olivier Theatre at the National Theatre
★★★★☆ A year later than originally planned – after an aborted run in December 2021- this new retelling of the Sleeping Beauty fairytale has finally opened at the Olivier Theatre at the National. Running over Christmas this is clearly their big family production, though audiences expecting a Disney style retelling. This is NOT one for very young…
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Good – The Harold Pinter Theatre
For the last two months of 2022 this has been one of the hottest tickets in town, with a star name leading the cast, and a limited run. Good is a play by CP Taylor which premiered in 1981, performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company. This new production stars David Tennant (‘Doctor Who’ and Good Omens’),…
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The Girl from the North Country – Milton Keynes Theatre
★★★★☆ I didn’t know much about this going into it, other than it is set in depression era America and it uses the music of Bob Dylan. So I wasn’t really sure what to expect when we booked this on a last minute deal. Set in 1934 in Duluth, Minnesota (hometown of Dylan) we find…
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My Son’s a Queer (but what can you do) – Garrick Theatre
★★★★★ Back in 2020 Rob Madge started putting home movie clips of them as a child putting on shows in their living room online. A year later this had turned into an hour long one-person show at the Turbine Theatre in London. It then had a revival at Edinburgh this summer and is just coming…
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