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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.

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

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  • 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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