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February 2: Reality TV: Does it bite the hand that feeds it — or provide new opportunities?

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My Top Ten Choices of the Week (w/c June 20)

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New entries this week include The Spoils, Blue/Orange, The Deep Blue Sea and The Go-Between.

My Top Ten Choices of the Week (w/c May 30)

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New entries this week are The Invisible Hand at the Tricycle Theatre and The 3 Penny Opera at the Natonal, and its the last chance to see Les Blancs, The Flick and People, Places and Things

My Top Ten Choices of the Week (w/c May 9)

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New entries this week are the return of Funny Girl, transferred from the Menier to the Savoy, and A MIdsummer Night’s Dream at the Globe.

My Top Ten Choices of the Week (w/c April 25)

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New entry this week is Show Boat, transferred from Chichester to the New London.

My Top Ten Choices of the Week (w/c April 11)

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New entries this week are Les Blancs at the National and How the Other Half Loves in the West End.

Theatre openings and my Top Ten Choices of the Week (w/c March 28)

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After re-visiting The Book of Mormon, it makes it into this week’s Top Ten; so does People, Places and Things, newly transferred from the National to the West End.

My Top Ten Choices of the Week (w/c March 21)

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After three one-star shows in a row last week, there’s a guaranteed hit opening this week when People, Places and Things transfers from the National.

Diary of a theatre addict: Robert Lindsay and I make up, but I fall out with Harvey Fierstein in another busy week

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I make up with Robert Lindsay and meet with the wonderful Mark Rylance, but I have more mixed emotions about Harvey Fierstein, even as I’ve seen three shows connected to him in the space of six days.

Diary of a Theatre Addict: Finding myself centrestage at my public birthday party

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This week I had another birthday — but it wasn’t any birthday: Scott Alan threw a public birthday bash for me. And it was the best of my life!

Recent Articles

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