The Old Vic’s Mood Music hums with disquiet about the gender dynamics of the music industry
Joe Penhall’s new play features a dispute over songwriting credits.
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Quiz is a fast-paced, hi-tech retelling of the Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? cheating scandal
This tale of the “coughing major” is a nostalgic romp through the rise of reality television.
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Sound and fury: why Macbeth is having a resurgence in the age of Trump and Brexit
Five performances of Macbeth are on offer in Britain this spring: along with a ballet, a movie, and a novelisation…
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An inspired ode to Bob Dylan, Girl from the North Country turns pop into a work of art
Playwright and director Conor McPherson is always dancing with Dylan but never stepping on his toes.
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Rarely is theatre’s fourth wall broken so jaggedly as in Bryony Lavery’s play, Frozen
Ralph, a serial rapist and murderer of children, chattily soliloquises about the corpses and torture-porn videos stored in his lock-up garage.
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Carey Mulligan is oddly unemotional in Dennis Kelly’s powerful new play, Girls & Boys
If you intend to see Girls & Boys, don’t read this review.
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Tremendous new plays Beginning and John offer differing looks at our desperation for connection
David Eldridge and Annie Baker’s works use contrasting tactics of realism and surrealism.
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Kathy Burke’s Lady Windermere’s Fan needs more edge to its gooey marshmallow centre
Any sense of danger under the frills and frocks has been lost in this production.
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The Exorcist film gave me a raging scared-on – so why is the play so funny?
In the sense of rousing primal feelings, the film is like a porno, but for fear.
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