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Valery Panov obituary

silverguide.site – Ballet dancer whose struggle to leave the Soviet Union in 1972 caused an international outcry that led to his release…
Valery Panov obituary
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Noughts & Crosses review – Malorie Blackman’s thought experiment confronts the audience anew

silverguide.site – Callum and Sephy are a modern Romeo and Juliet, forced to grow up fast as they wade through the crushing racial and class structures that pin them in their opposing places…
Noughts & Crosses review – Malorie Blackman’s thought experiment confronts the audience anew
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King Lear is a masterpiece – as told by Akira Kurosawa rather than Shakespeare | Michael Billington

silverguide.site – The tragedy’s mythic quality appeals to adapters the world over but the Japanese film-maker’s Ran, now rereleased, manages to solve the play’s problems…
King Lear is a masterpiece – as told by Akira Kurosawa rather than Shakespeare | Michael Billington
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‘They feel cleansed, they cry … some really don’t like it!’ The 12-hour psychedelic theatre-rave Trance

silverguide.site – Inspired by club culture and reincarnation, Tianzhuo Chen and Asian Dope Boys have devised a mesmerising show that unfolds in six two-hour chapters. Prepare to enter hell and then be healed…
‘They feel cleansed, they cry … some really don’t like it!’ The 12-hour psychedelic theatre-rave Trance
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‘They rewrite the ending’: the knife crime play with its own outreach scheme

silverguide.site – Sam Edmunds hopes to help young people with his play The Chaos That Has Been and Will No Doubt Return…
‘They rewrite the ending’: the knife crime play with its own outreach scheme
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Tim Minchin: Songs the World Will Never Hear review – a bumper night with the marvellous misfit

silverguide.site – Minchin embraces his oddball status – is he musician, comedian, auteur or clown? – in this three-hour touring show…
Tim Minchin: Songs the World Will Never Hear review – a bumper night with the marvellous misfit
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The young Oscar Wilde’s Russian revolutionary drama reveals a playwright divided

silverguide.site – Vera; or, The Nihilists concerns a plot to kill a tsar but after Alexander II was assassinated, its London premiere was cancelled. Now receiving a rare production, it captures his conflict between ethics and aesthetics…
The young Oscar Wilde’s Russian revolutionary drama reveals a playwright divided
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Jesus Christ Superstar review – innovative, emotional revival is divinely inspired

silverguide.site – Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s 1971 Biblical rock musical seems strikingly topical in this powerful staging, which has a large cast of actor-musicians and a Gethsemane scene in a real garden…
Jesus Christ Superstar review – innovative, emotional revival is divinely inspired
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Mother Play review – Sigrid Thornton is terrific as a gin-soaked, monstrous matriarch

silverguide.site – Melbourne Theatre CompanyThornton, Yael Stone and Ash Flanders give beautiful performances as a miserable family, but startling tonal shifts send this American play into silliness…
Mother Play review – Sigrid Thornton is terrific as a gin-soaked, monstrous matriarch
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Annie Stainer obituary

silverguide.site – Dancer and mime artist best known for her eponymous solo trilogy who also performed with David Bowie on film and stage…
Annie Stainer obituary
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A Single Man review – homoerotic tennis enlivens ballet version of Isherwood’s classic

silverguide.site – Riven in two by grief – with musician John Grant playing the mind and former Royal Ballet principal Ed Watson the body – lead character George takes a finely danced journey back toward life’s flow in Jonathan Watkins’ inventive ballet…
A Single Man review – homoerotic tennis enlivens ballet version of Isherwood’s classic
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Grace Pervades review – Ralph Fiennes and Miranda Raison exceptional as Victorian stage stars

silverguide.site – In 25 scenes spanning 1878-1966, David Hare’s wry and elegant love letter to theatre focuses on the working and romantic relationship between Ellen Terry and Henry Irving…
Grace Pervades review – Ralph Fiennes and Miranda Raison exceptional as Victorian stage stars
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Diamonds and Dust review – Dita Von Teese and Faye Tozer’s saddle-sore wild west burlesque

silverguide.site – A regal Von Teese oversees this uninspiring mix of chandelier-swinging cabaret, circus and dance featuring the Steps singer as a saloon owner with a string of exes…
Diamonds and Dust review – Dita Von Teese and Faye Tozer’s saddle-sore wild west burlesque
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Liberation review – fizzing tensions of historic Pan-African Congress

silverguide.site – Ntombizodwa Nyoni’s deft and nuanced play balances ideologies and ambition, personality clashes and generational conflict at key 1945 Manchester conference…
Liberation review – fizzing tensions of historic Pan-African Congress
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Over and Over (and Over Again) review – behold the human disco ball!

silverguide.site – Taking rests when required, Candoco’s integrated company capture the paradox of dancefloor abandonment…
Over and Over (and Over Again) review – behold the human disco ball!
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Edinburgh fringe 2025: the best theatre and comedy we’ve already reviewed

silverguide.site – This year’s festival has plenty of returning heroes, from Nina Conti to Nick Mohammed. Here are 10 shows our critics praised…
Edinburgh fringe 2025: the best theatre and comedy we’ve already reviewed
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The Constant Wife review – Rose Leslie and Laura Wade let fresh light into Maugham’s drawing room

silverguide.site – A sharp new version of Somerset Maugham’s 1926 tale of adultery is led by the Game of Thrones star and includes a jazz score by Jamie Cullum…
The Constant Wife review – Rose Leslie and Laura Wade let fresh light into Maugham’s drawing room
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Evita review – Rachel Zegler is phenomenal but Jamie Lloyd’s rock show drowns out the story

silverguide.site – Zegler excels as Eva Perón and the crowds outside are used to capture the hypnotic appeal of populism but the narrative takes a backseat in his staging of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s musical…
Evita review – Rachel Zegler is phenomenal but Jamie Lloyd’s rock show drowns out the story
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‘My hospital notes said: estimated female’: jazz musician Gill Hicks on being caught in the 7/7 bombings

silverguide.site – After being pulled from the wreckage, she spent months learning how to speak again. Now, 20 years on, Hicks is performing her beloved jazz standards on stage – and remembering those who saved her life…
‘My hospital notes said: estimated female’: jazz musician Gill Hicks on being caught in the 7/7 bombings
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The best theatre to stream this month: Stereophonic’s suite of addictive songs

silverguide.site – A sensational Broadway recording, an electrifying Liza Minnelli documentary and King and ‘Queen’ Lear…
The best theatre to stream this month: Stereophonic’s suite of addictive songs
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