3.0★ ★ ★
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The Shawshank Redemption

I have never seen the film that was made of The Shawshank Redemption, a novella by Stephen King that is not quite his usual kind of horro story; and n...
5.0★ ★ ★ ★ ★
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The Tempest

If I could give this production of Shakespeare’s play The Tempest more than five stars, I would. This is one of those rare productions that I believe ...
5.0★ ★ ★ ★ ★
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Mamma Mia!

The success of the hit show Mamma Mia! comes, I believe, from the fact that it is not just another jukebox musical. In fashioning the book and the sho...
5.0★ ★ ★ ★ ★
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The Makropulos Affair

The brand new production by the Welsh National Opera of Janáček penultimate opera, The Makropulos Affair, is, quite simply, a brilliant, flawless pres...
4.0★ ★ ★ ★
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La Bohème

The WNO is touring a La Bohème that gets most things about the opera right. The production by Annabel Arden revived by Caroline Chaney is tradition...
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Beautiful
The Carole King Musical

The hit jukebox musical Beautiful – The Carole King Musical has been adapted for a production in which all the actors and singers are also playing the...
4.0★ ★ ★ ★
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The Mousetrap

As a very entertaining gift to us all, the producer Adam Spiegel has arranged to create a 70th anniversary tour of Agatha Christie’s legendary play Th...
3.0★ ★ ★
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Dinner with Groucho

Dinner with Groucho is a kind of one-act fantasia on the historic fact that T S Eliot and Groucho Marx were pen pals who met once late in their lives ...
3.0★ ★ ★
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Shakespeare’s Othello

The Frantic Assembly production doing the rounds at the moment calling itself Shakespeare’s Othello (coming to the Lyric Hammersmith for a decent run ...
5.0★ ★ ★ ★ ★
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Saturday Night Fever

All that glitters is gold in the 1977 disco classic Saturday Night Fever reimagined for the stage by Bill Kenwright and starring Jack Wilcox and Rebek...