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THEATRE
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Divorced, Beheaded, Live! Show extension confirmed
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Christopher Walker reviews the Noël Coward double bill at the Orange Tree Theatre Richmond
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Christopher Walker reviews Wedding Band – a love hate story in black and white
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Christopher Walker reviews Jerry’s Girls at the Menier Theatre
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Mr Toad leads family favourites at Greenwich Theatre
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Peppa Pig World developing future theatregoers
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19 April 2024
19 April 2024
In the arts, we understand the notion of immersive theatre very well. Companies like Punchdrunk (now resident in the borough ...
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Christopher Walker reviews Foam at the Finborough Theatre
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4 April 2024
4 April 2024
The 1970s were an unpleasant interlude in our history characterized by a stagnant economy, soaring inflation, and political divisiveness. Sound ...
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Christopher Walker reviews the Faith Healer at the Lyric Hammersmith
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27 March 2024
27 March 2024
I am not a fan of theatrical one-man bands. Monologues beyond a few minutes can often drag and loose the ...
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Christopher Walker reviews Wayne McGregor’s Autobiography
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14 March 2024
13 March 2024
Certain theatre creators hate critics. They never stop writing or abusing us after a bad review. But what is also ...
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Greenwich Children’s Theatre Festival programme announced
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11 March 2024
11 March 2024
With Easter falling early this year, there are only a few weeks to go until the Greenwich Children’s Theatre Festival ...
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Christopher Walker reviews Lucy & Friends at the Soho Theatre
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7 March 2024
7 March 2024
By Christopher Walker “Nothing can shock me anymore.” So did the pompous theatre critic tempt Fate. I had not anticipated ...
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Christopher Walker reviews Nye at the National Theatre
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Christopher Walker reviews Nachtland at the Young Vic
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28 February 2024
28 February 2024
Before he became a genocidal maniac and plunged the world into self-destruction, Adolf Hitler was a painter. Not a very ...
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James Haddrell on censorship and funding
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27 February 2024
27 February 2024
Hannah Lavery's three-performer play Protest, which I managed to catch at Brixton House during its brief London run, is a ...
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James Haddrell on the award-winning Red Pitch
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Greenwich Theatre secures long term future
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James Haddrell on Before After at Southwark Playhouse
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James Haddrell and Marie Hamilton on parenting in the arts
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James Haddrell previews Protest at Brixton House
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Greenwich children’s theatre festival highlights announced
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30 January 2024
30 January 2024
January often feels like a strange time in theatre, and that’s certainly the case here at Greenwich Theatre. Having enjoyed ...
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James Haddrell celebrates Blood On Your Hands at Southwark Playhouse
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30 January 2024
30 January 2024
Over the years there have been plays, books and TV shows about real events that capture the public imagination, and ...
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James Haddrell previews As She Likes It at Greenwich Theatre
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17 January 2024
17 January 2024
In times of unrest, it is common for our storytellers to focus on the major players, telling stories of astonishing ...
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Magician Derren Brown’s Unbelievable on at the Criterion Theatre
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2 January 2024
2 January 2024
A good magic show should be unbelievable, and that’s exactly what this West End production promises. Written and directed by ...
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Gothic musical hits all the right notes
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24 December 2023
22 December 2023
Marinka is a young girl who dreams of a normal life, where she can stay somewhere long enough to make ...
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Christopher Walker reviews The Homecoming
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23 December 2023
22 December 2023
Bleak house. This is a dark, disturbing play. It inverts our most scared beliefs. Home, family, motherhood. And leaves the ...
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Lyric Hammersmith’s adaptation of Cinderella has it all
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Christopher Walker reviews Edward Scissorhands
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20 December 2023
19 December 2023
Every Christmas season, dance genius Matthew Bourne, treats us to a new spectacular production at Sadler’s Wells. This year we ...
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Christopher Walker reviews Puss in Boots at Wonderville
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19 December 2023
19 December 2023
The Above The Stag Theatre was something of an icon to London’s LGBT community. It was a fringe company with ...
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Christopher Walker reviews Pacific Overtures
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9 December 2023
5 December 2023
Japan is an extraordinarily different country. In our multicultural contemporary world, it remains doggedly ‘unicultural.’ On my first trip to ...
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Christopher Walker reviews She Stoops to Conquer
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2 December 2023
29 November 2023
The tiny Orange Tree Theatre in Richmond has long been on theatre aficionados’ radar. Under Paul Miller, previously the National ...
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Christopher Walker reviews Two Strangers (Carry A Cake Across New York)
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28 November 2023
21 November 2023
Not every hit requires a big budget or a starry cast. A new British musical from writers Jim Barne and ...
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Christopher Walker reviews Mates in Chelsea
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25 November 2023
24 November 2023
Well at least the title is funny. The Royal Court Theatre’s new production of Mates in Chelsea, by Rory Mullarkey, ...
Christopher Walker reviews Two Strangers (Carry A Cake Across New York)
Christopher Walker reviews Mates in Chelsea
Christopher Walker reviews Backstairs Billy at the Duke of York’s Theatre
Christopher Walker reviews Phoebe Dickinson Great Houses And Gardens Of England
James Haddrell reviews A Woman Walks Into A Bank opening at the Theatre503
Only Fools and Horses The Musical coming to London for 3 weeks only!
Christopher Walker reviews Hamnet
James Haddrell reviews Phantasmagoria highlighting theatre writing for women of South Asian descent
Christopher Walker reviews The 7 Deaths of Maria Callas playing at the Coliseum
Christopher Walker reviews The Flea playing at the Yard Theatre
Christopher Walker reviews The Confessions playing at the Lyttleton theatre
James Haddrell speaks on upcoming theatre production of Anthony Spargo’s Snow White
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