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Monday, 5 June 2023
REVIEW: Gypsy at the Mill at Sonning
There was a golden age of American musicals after the Second World War when titles like Oklahoma (1943), Carousel (1945), South Pacific (194...
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Wednesday, 17 May 2023
REVIEW: 4000 Miles at the Minerva Studio, Chichester Festival Theatre
In sharp contrast to Noel Coward’s classic The Vortex in the main house at Chichester, Amy Herzog’s 2011 play at the Minerva Studio opposite...
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REVIEW: The Vortex at the Chichester Festival Theatre
Noel Coward wrote, directed, and starred in his 1924 production of The Vortex which was seen at the time as scandalous with its depiction of...
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Wednesday, 26 April 2023
REVIEW: Dancing at Lughnasa at the National Theatre
The National Theatre has the expertise and the resources to do full justice to classic plays and this revival of Dancing at Lughnasa (the ha...
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Saturday, 15 April 2023
REVIEW: The RSC's Hamnet at the Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon
The story of Hamnet, Shakespeare's only son is a powerful one of grief and separation guilt although Maggie Farrell who wrote the book o...
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Thursday, 13 April 2023
REVIEW: Titanic the Musical at the Mayflower, Southampton
It is 111 years since the RMS Titanic set sail from Southampton and sank a few days later on the morning of 15th April 1912 with the loss of...
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REVIEW: The SpongeBob Musical at the Mayflower, Southampton
The Mayflower in Southampton must be the number one venue for Regional Touring musicals and over the last year we have enjoyed Fisherman’s F...
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Sunday, 2 April 2023
REVIEW: The RSC's Julius Caesar at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre
There is great pleasure in travelling to Stratford-Upon-Avon to see Shakespeare performed at the theatre and by a company that bears his n...
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REVIEW: Home, I’m Darling at the New Victoria Theatre, Woking
As one-character quotes, nostalgia is not what it used to be, and author, Laura Wade uses this idea to explore feminist themes about the rol...
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Monday, 27 March 2023
REVIEW: Hay Fever at the Mill at Sonning
It’s nearly 100 years since Noel Coward’s farcical comedy about the eccentric Bliss Family was first staged in the West End and it seems app...
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Sunday, 19 March 2023
REVIEW: The King and I at the Wycombe Swan Theatre
Bartlett Sher’s magnificent revival of Rogers and Hammerstein’s wonderful 1951 musical was first produced for the Lincoln Centre in New York...
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Tuesday, 28 February 2023
REVIEW: Hedda Gabler at the Reading Rep
Reading Rep is celebrating its tenth anniversary of its formation and a second season in its new venue with some bold and original adaptatio...
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REVIEW: Charlotte and Theodore at the Theatre Royal Bath
The title of Charlotte and Theodore, the new play by Ryan Craig which is enjoying its world premiere at the Ustinov Studio in Bath until 18t...
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Tuesday, 21 February 2023
REVIEW: Sister Act at the New Victoria Theatre, Woking
When I saw this production at the Hammersmith Eventim Apollo in August 2022 with an all-star cast including Jennifer Saunders, Keala Settle ...
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Saturday, 18 February 2023
REVIEW: Fishermen’s Friends at the Mayflower Southampton
The story of Fishermen’s Friend singers from Port Isaac in Cornwall began in 1995 but sprung to wider recognition with the release of their ...
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REVIEW: The Mirror Crack’d at the Wycombe Swan Theatre
Agatha Christie’s detective creation Miss Marple has been adapted for film, TV, and stage in many incarnations from Margaret Rutherford (in ...
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Thursday, 2 February 2023
REVIEW: 2:22 A Ghost Story at The Lyric Theatre
2.22 - A Ghost Story is quite a West End phenomenon, not so much because of its subject of paranormal activity in the bedroom of an old-fash...
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REVIEW: An Evening of Magic at The Mill at Sonning
The Mill at Sonning has a very full programme of other events around its regular play season with tribute bands, comics and magic attracting...
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Monday, 30 January 2023
REVIEW: The Ocean at the End of the Lane at the New Victoria Theatre, Woking
The National Theatre’s extraordinary production of The Ocean at the End of the Lane continues its UK tour at Woking’s New Victoria Theatre b...
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REVIEW: We'll Always Have Paris at the Mill at Sonning
The Mill at Sonning’s wonderful dinner theatre in Berkshire programmes for an audience it knows well with an attractive mix of comedy, thril...
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