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Review of Eureka Day at The Old Vic - Let's all take a minute, step back and breathe before judging

Rated 🍯🍯🍯 What just happened?! Depending on how synced up you are with the whole liberal / woke / anti-woke / progressive /...

Review of Glitterball at Riverside Studios - What a wonderful surprise

Rated 🍯🍯🍯🍯 What a pleasant surprise Glitterball turned out to be! The teasers and promotions (and the name of the play) threw the bee...

Review of Park Theatre's The End of the Night - Ben Brown's script is intense and gripping

Rated 🍯🍯🍯🍯 Towards the end of Hitler's reign, one of the most powerful chesspieces of the oppressive and barbaric Nazi war machine...

Cabaret Extends to January 2023. That's 200 more chances to try the ticket lottery

Giving us another 200 odd shows to enjoy for those who can afford it (or another 200 chances to enter the Cabaret theatre ticket lottery...

Review of Julius Caesar at Shakespeare's Globe - A fun experiment with gender

Rated 🍯🍯🍯 The play opens with Brutus inspecting the statue of Caesar — the only thing to adorn the stage other than a purple carpet...

Review of Oklahoma! at The Young Vic - Reinvention ruins original for uninitiated

Rated 🍯🍯 It is impossible to enjoy the Young Vic’s revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s musical Oklahoma! if one has not been exposed...

Review of Britannicus at Lyric Hammersmith - An appealing modern take on a beloved classic

Rated 🍯🍯🍯 It is easy to go wrong with Jean Racine’s Britannicus. First, it is hard to design a set that’s redolent of ancient Rome, a...