Alan Bowne’s 1987 play imagines a future where anti-HIV prejudice has become law
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Julius Caesar, Bridge Theatre, London ★★★★
The Bridge Theatre shows off its flexibility with a fast-paced promenade version of Shakespeare’s play
The Crystal Egg, The Vaults, London ★★★
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…
Bananaman: The Musical, Southwark Playhouse, London ★★½
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…
13 shows you shouldn’t have missed in 2017
Out of the 140+ shows I saw this year, here are 13 I hope you saw too
Hamilton: An American Musical, Victoria Palace Theatre, London ★★★★★
A musical which looks and sounds unlike anything else on Broadway or in the West End
Slava’s Snow Show, Royal Festival Hall, London ★★★★
The RFH traditional Christmas show is a magical piece of art
Dick Whittington, London Palladium ★★★★★
Be upstanding for Julian Clary’s masterful handling of Dick jokes
Pinocchio, National Theatre, London ★★★
While full of technical craft, this large-scale adaptation of the classic tale lacks heart
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Waterside Theatre, Aylesbury ★★★½
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…
Daisy Pulls It Off, Park Theatre, London ★★★★
A colour and age-blind cast highlight the artificiality at the heart of Denise Deegan’s ripping comedy
The Woman in White, Charing Cross Theatre, London ★★
A Lloyd Webber revival that, for all its Gothic gloom, is decidedly grey
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