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The Motive and the Cue

  • Venue: National Theatre (Lyttleton)
  • Date: 27th April 2023
  • Written by: Jack Thorne, inspired by 'Letters from an Actor' by William Redfield and 'John Gielgud Directs Richard Burton in Hamlet' by Richard L. Stern
  • Directed by: Sam Mendes
  • Staring: Johnny Flynn (Burton); Mark Gatiss (Gielgud); Tuppence Middleton (Taylor)

Genesis of a hit

It may still be in preview, but The Motive and the Cue at the Lyttleton is already looking polished.

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Yippee Ki Yay

  • Venue: Wilton's Music Hall
  • Date: 19th April 2023
  • Written by: Richard Marsh
  • Directed by: Hal Chambers
  • Staring: Richard Marsh

 

What have you done to our favourite film?

Wilton's Music Hall  provides a strangely appropriate setting for Yippee Ki Yay

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Farm Hall Playbill

Farm Hall

  • Venue: Jermyn Street Theatre
  • Date: 4th April 2023
  • Written by: Katherine Moar.
  • Directed by: Stephen Unwin
  • Staring: Alan Cox (HEISENBERG); Forbes Masson (HAHN); David Yelland (VON LAUE); Archie Backhouse (BAGGE); Daniel Boyd (WEIZSÄCKER); Julius D’Silva (DIEBNER).

That’s just not possible, the Americans must be lying…

I'm a newbie at the tiny Jermyn Street Theatre to see Farm Hall.

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Playbill - Marjorie Prime

Marjorie Prime

  • Venue: Menier Chocolate Factory
  • Date: 30th March 2023
  • Written by: Jordan Harrison
  • Directed by: Dominic Dromgoole
  • Staring: Anne Reid; Nancy Carroll; Richard Fleeshman; Tony Jayawardena

What is identity?

At the Menier to see, well the really quite strange, Marjorie Prime

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Guys and Dolls

  • Venue: Bridge Theatre
  • Date: 15th March 2023
  • Written by: BASED ON THE STORY & CHARACTERS of Damon Runyon; MUSIC & LYRICS BY Frank Loesser; BOOK BY Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows
  • Directed by: Nicholas Hytner (Choreographers: Arlene Phillips with James Cousins)
  • Staring: Daniel Mays (Nathan Detroit); Marisha Wallace (Miss Adelaide); Celinde Schoenmaker (Sarah Brown); Andrew Richardson (Sky Masterson); Cedric Neale (Nicely-Nicely Johnson)

Best yet...

Still buzzing from Guys and Dolls at the Bridge Theatre. 

This has had rave reviews from its Press Night (last night) and thoroughly deserves them.

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ENO ad for the production

The Rheingold

  • Venue: London Coliseum (ENO)
  • Date: 23rd February 2023
  • Written by: Richard Wagner
  • Directed by: Richard Jones
  • Staring: Frederick Ballentine (Loge); John Relyea (Wotan); Leigh Melrose (Alberich); Simon Bailey (Fasolt); James Creswell (Fafner)

Just so much more fun than Valkyrie…

Despite all the gloomy news about ENO funding, they still managed to stage their Rhinegold (Das Rheingold) at the Coliseum – the first in Wagner’s Ring Cycle and the second to form part of the ENO’s planned Cycle (!?) – Valkyrie was last year.

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