★★★★★ Upon first impression, “A Strange Loop” sounds tough going. Featuring an aspiring Broadway writer, it’s a play-within-a-play, the titular term lifted from cognitive scientist Douglas Hofstadter’s theory of cyclical,…
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★★★★★ BLACK SUPERHERO is a stunning debut for ‘Normal Heart’s’ Oliver-award nominated actor Danny Lee Wynter, whose original script presents a funny and unflinching view on representation in the arts,…
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★★★★ If the dramatic potential of proving shortcrust raised eyebrows when the BBC debuted ‘The Great British Bake Off’ back in 2010, the show’s musical adaptation has prompted outright bewilderment.…
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When 2:22 made its debut last year, the new ghost story was something of a curiosity to London critics. Making the leap from Spotify success with ‘The Battersea Poltergeist’, Danny…
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★★★★ As a choice of musical, 101 Dalmatians musical feels like something of a hair shirt for producers. One can just imagine the conversations between Artistic Director Timothy Sheader and…
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★★★★ As a nineties baby, the Disney adaptation of Beauty and The Beast is a both a familiar and terrifying concept. The live-action remake has now laid claim to most…
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★★★★★ For Emma Rice, theatrical adaptation is an extreme sport. Wuthering Heights, Charlotte Brontë’s brooding tragic romance, is hardly beloved for its sexual innuendo nor its overblown rock interludes. Yet…
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★★★★ Mischief Theatre has a knack for making million dollar productions look amateur. One would never pick out ‘Magic Goes Wrong’ as a JJ Abrams production, or one developed alongside…
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★★★★ Few playwrights have been watched so closely as The West End’s new poster girl Jasmine Lee-Jones since her cacophonous debut, The Seven Methods of Killing Kylie Jenner first turned…
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★★★★ Jason Robert Brown’s award-winning musical charts the last five years of an estranged couple’s relationship, recalling its demise through two lenses. We follow Jamie Wellerstein, a hot-shot young novelist,…
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