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Theatre openings and my Top Ten Choices of the Week (w/c Jan 25)

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Top ten of the week, including Bend it Like Beckham, Close to You and In the Heights, three shows I’ve already re-visited again and again, and intend to yet again!

My top ten choices for Christmas week (with not a panto in sight)

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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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Recent Articles

  • January 22: ShenTens: My Favourite Movie Musicals
  • January 21: Top of the ‘flops’: do we call a spade a spade?
  • January 20: How commercial theatre hopes to go back to before but subsidised venues are taking the opportunity for a re-set
  • January 19: The changing critical landscape — and my own latest chapter in it
  • January 18: Diary items: the malignant narcissism of Laurence Fox, the extraordinary generosity of Jack Thorne, & Andrew Lloyd Webber staying positive
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