Do you hear the people sing?
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8th September 2022
How could you not? Les Miserables UK Tour 2022, opening at Birmingham Hippodrome At the end of the day, Les Miserables is the most successful musical...
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Author: Lizz Brain
So much happiness, so much love…
Posted on
9th May 2022
It was 2010 when Michael Strassen took his first major step from performer to director. Now he’s ticking a lifetime achievement box, opening Sondheim’s Passion in...
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Beautiful – the Carole King musical
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4th March 2022
Beautiful - tour - 2022 at Curve Theatre Leicester, Directed by Nikolai Foster. Photo Ellie Kurtz. Writing constructive critical reviews is not an easy task:...
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Engaging with Picard!
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24th February 2022
As a new series of Picard launches, I head back 15 years to Patrick Stewart in a Shakespearean tragedy. Resistance is futile. "Being a good captain of...
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Private Peaceful is anything but
Posted on
22nd February 2022
Horrors of war pack a punch in this Morpurgo adaptation Daniel Rainford & Daniel Boyd in Private Peaceful - Feb 2022 © Nottingham Playhouse (Photo Manuel...
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No Game of Thrones here!
Posted on
15th February 2022
Photo above by Peter Coombs, (C) RSC 2004. From graveyard digger to master fencer...
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Out with a Duckie
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15th February 2022
Spark Festival Delights Two very different children’s shows but with a narrative connection about being yourself, knowing yourself and being true to yourself. Strange to think that...
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Always remember…
Posted on
15th February 2022
So while trawling through 25 years' worth of reviews and interviews (one interview every week, you do the maths!), there were some pieces of work...
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Palace of Varieties
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10th February 2022
Where working men's club meets Westminster and politics meet parody. “Society shouldn’t be a marketplace for buying and selling people like commodities, it should...
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