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Review: Closer, Lyric Hammersmith

Patrick Marber’s Closer celebrates its 25th anniversary with an occasionally muddled but very strongly cast production at…

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TV Review: Sticks and Stones

Mike Bartlett adapts his play Bull for the TV in the form of Sticks and Stones, with…

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Review: Hand To God, Vaudeville Theatre

“You’re so far back in the closet, you’re in Narnia” For someone who really isn’t a fan…

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Introducing Tyrone – the truth-telling sock puppet –

Hand To God opens at the Vaudeville Theatre next month, hot from a Tony Award-nominated run on…

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Radio Review: The Boy At The Back / Chiwawa / Silk: The Clerks’ Room, Jake

“Literature doesn’t teach us anything” Juan Mayorga’s The Boy At The Back turned out to be one…

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TV Review: Clapham Junction

“The whole gay thing, is it still an issue any more?” Part of Channel 4’s 2007 gay…

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TV Review: Frankenstein

Even goddesses sometime make mis-steps and this modern-day rewriting of Frankenstein by Jed Mercurio probably fits closer…

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2010 What’s On Stage Award nominations

BEST ACTRESS IN A PLAY Rachel Weisz – A Streetcar Named Desire at the Donmar Warehouse  Alison Steadman – Enjoy at…

Posted in Theatre Theatre review Tom Stoppard Top plays of 2009 West End

Review: Arcadia, Duke of York’s Theatre

Tom Stoppard’s play Arcadia first played at the National Theatre in 1993, and this is the first…