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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.

Diary of a Theatre Addict: 13 shows in London, 5 beyond London, and 11 in New York in April

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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.

Critical Digest: Four 5* shows in London & Sheffield and a 1* Peter Pan

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Review extracts from four shows that got 5-star reviews: The Lorax at the Old Vic, Les Liaisons Dangereuses at the Donmar, Show Boat at Sheffield’s Crucible & The Dazzle at Found111.

Diary of a Theatre Addict: School’s out (sort of), but I’m still catching up

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Feature extracts of the week, from interviews with Kasper Holten, Daniel Evans, Jackie Hoffman and more….

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Extracts from interview features with the Royal Opera House’s (soon departing) Director of Opera Kasper Holten, Sheffield Crucible’s (soon departing) artistic director Daniel Evans, Broadway’s Jackie Hoffman & more.

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