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Review: SohoStreets @ Soho Theatre

SohoStreets uses the same format as Soho Theatre’s first promenade street theatre Moonwalking in Chinatown, taking audiences back in time rather than in and around present-day Chinatown lives. We were divided into Goths, Punks, Ravers or Hippies for our walk through the churning streets of …

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Review: Supermarket Shakespeare @ Lee Green Sainsbury’s

Teatro Vivo, last seen steaming up windows of the Horniman museum’s glasshouse with Hothouse are back in the fresh fruit aisles of south London’s supermarkets with Supermarket Shakespeare, this time inspired by Sonnet 91. We sped into Lee Green Sainsbury’s, grabbed a basket and looked …

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Review: Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf, Trafalgar Studios

Trafalgar Studios’ new production of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? puts the audience right in the middle of the action. In a studio space so intimate that anyone on front row would have to say “excuse me” to the actors in order to go to …

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Review: The Serious Business Of Choosing A Mate @ Pleasance Theatre

CandyKing Theatre produces classic plays alongside new writing, as in their double-bill The Serious Business of Choosing a Mate. New writing from Jeremy Green in Fairytale and Anton Chekhov’s rarely seen The Proposal form a light-hearted, amusing, slightly uneven evening. There are romantic misunderstandings, dashed …

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West End Gets Legal

After a stint on Broadway and a lot of rumours, it’s finally been confirmed today that Legally Blonde: The Musical will be hitting the West End from December. The fantastic Sheridan Smith will be taking the role of Elle, the soriety girl who becomes a …

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Review: Panic By Improbable Theatre

Image by Keith Pattison Improbable are well known for visual ingenuity having delivered the fantastically received Wolves in the Walls (with National Theatre of Scotland), Theatre of Blood at the National Theatre and Philip Glass’ Satyagraha (in association with the ENO). Key members were also …

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Preview: Sohostreets At Soho Theatre

Soho Theatre is 40 years old this year! And to mark the big occasion, they’re taking us on a walk… Last time they did this, we rediscovered the magic of Chinatown in Moonwalking , and so we have high hopes for Sohostreets which promises to …

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Preview: Love & Understanding @ Courtyard Theatre

Last seen being strangled at the Blue Elephant we’re tracking down Natalie Lesser again, this time in a contemporary play but again grappling the vicissitudes of love and life. Joe Penhall’s darkly comic play, Love and Understanding, dissects a modern medical romance that’s flailing fast, …

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Review: Don John By Kneehigh At BAC

Don John by Kneehigh Theatre at BAC. It’s good. It’s really good. And that’s not just a recommendation for the regular theatre-goer, Kneehigh Theatre fans, BAC frequenters: its for anyone doubting that theatre is for them because it’s hard to imagine anyone not being affected …

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London’s Bank Holiday Tourist Bonus

Image courtesy of Darren Lehane from the Londonist Flickr pool Enjoying your bank holiday? Even though it’s drizzly and generally a bit miserable? You’re not the only ones, it seems. Visit London is quite excited about the busyness of the capital. Where people might previously …

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Bulger Play Outrage

…shrieks the frontpage headline of the Hackney Gazette. A new play at Arcola, Dalston, is accused of cashing in on the tragic and horrifying death of Jamie Bulger and opening fresh wounds for his family by the organisation Mothers Against Murder and Aggression. Forgive us …