Alan Bowne’s 1987 play imagines a future where anti-HIV prejudice has become law
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Beirut, Park Theatre ★★★
Alan Bowne’s 1987 play imagines a future where anti-HIV prejudice has become law
Alan Bowne’s 1987 play imagines a future where anti-HIV prejudice has become law
The Bridge Theatre shows off its flexibility with a fast-paced promenade version of Shakespeare’s play
Reviewed for The Reviews Hub: HG Wells’s short story The Crystal Egg, first published in 1897 as his better-known work The War of the Worlds was being serialised, can be thought of as a companion work to the author’s novel of Martian invasion. Its tale of a device which offers visions of life on Mars…
Reviewed for The Reviews Hub: If you thought pantomime season was over for another year, think again. Southwark Playhouse’s latest musical Bananaman, based on the DC Thompson comic strip that now resides in the Beano after life in the now-defunct stablemates Nutty and the Dandy, is firmly in the over-the-top, child-friendly silly comedy vein. The…
Out of the 140+ shows I saw this year, here are 13 I hope you saw too
A musical which looks and sounds unlike anything else on Broadway or in the West End
The RFH traditional Christmas show is a magical piece of art
Be upstanding for Julian Clary’s masterful handling of Dick jokes
While full of technical craft, this large-scale adaptation of the classic tale lacks heart
Reviewed for The Reviews Hub: It is a recurring thread in many modern pantomimes that the titular heroines, from Sleeping Beauty to Cinderella, are among the least served in terms of scripted character. That’s certainly the case with Aylesbury’s version of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, where the characters of Muddles, Dolly the Nurse…
A colour and age-blind cast highlight the artificiality at the heart of Denise Deegan’s ripping comedy
A Lloyd Webber revival that, for all its Gothic gloom, is decidedly grey
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