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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.

Diary of a Theatre Addict: Maggie and me — and sharing a hip surgeon!

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I’ve seen twenty shows in the last three weeks — and also discovered that Maggie Smith and I share a hip replacement surgeon!

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.

Theatre openings and my Top Ten Choices of the Week (w/c March 14)

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Top ten of the week, plus new openings at the St James, Young Vic and Garrick.

Theatre openings and my Top Ten Choices of the Week (w/c March 7)

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Top ten of the week, but there are lots of dark theatres, too, in London at the moment.

Theatre openings and my Top Ten Choices of the Week (w/c Feb15)

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Top ten of the week, including a wonderful new play Nell Gwynn and a revelatory Uncle Vanya – both of which got five-star raves from me!

Theatre openings and my Top Ten Choices of the Week (w/c Feb 1)

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Top ten of the week, including Florian Zeller’s The Mother that has followed his play The Father (soon to return to the West End) to London from Bath.

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