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Good week / Bad week

Posted on December 16, 2010 | 1 Comment
This week, a list of the most influential weekly theatrical round-up blogs. In at number 50...
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Good week / Bad week

Posted on November 27, 2010 | No Comments
Good weeks for Sheridan Smith, Theatre503, Rebecca Hall and the RSC. Not great for decency.
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Review – The Habit of Art, National Theatre

Posted on November 7, 2009 | 3 Comments
As I’ve previously written, The Habit of Art is a serious undertaking for the National Theatre. The previous Bennett/Hytner collaboration was the much lauded (and enormously profitable) History Boys which did much to bolster Hytner’s reputation at Sellafield on Thames. The comparisons between the new...
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- Review – Comedy of Errors, National Theatre
  27 November 2011 2:15 PM | 1 Comment
  A couple of years ago the idea of Lenny Henry as a Shakespearean actor was a joke. No longer.
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- Review – Othello, Sheffield Crucible
  22 October 2011 9:50 AM | 4 Comments
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- Review – Simon Callow in Tuesdays at Tescos, Assembly Hall
  20 August 2011 9:28 AM | 1 Comment
  What an embarrassing title. I'm embarrassed by it, and I'm not even Simon Callow. ★★
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- Review – The Wheel, Traverse Theatre
  14 August 2011 10:05 PM | No Comments
  Interesting and technically excellent, but lacking in characters to care about. ★★★
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