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Matching Gary Oldman’s Krapp with a teenager’s take on Godot is a masterstoke

silverguide.site – The Royal Court is presenting the Slow Horses star’s version of one Beckett masterpiece alongside 19-year-old Leo Simpe-Asante’s riff on another. They combine beautifully…
Matching Gary Oldman’s Krapp with a teenager’s take on Godot is a masterstoke
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Lenny Henry: Still at Large review – comic brings back greatest hits for a victory lap

silverguide.site – With bits about Prince, Tiswas, his Jamaican family and his long career, the standup treads familiar ground and the home-town crowd love it…
Lenny Henry: Still at Large review – comic brings back greatest hits for a victory lap
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Theatre streaming is not a threat to in-person attendance, new research shows

silverguide.site – Report suggests that popular initiatives such as NT Live and NT at Home are making UK audiences more adventurous…
Theatre streaming is not a threat to in-person attendance, new research shows
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Michael Pennington was an actor of astonishing range, a wise writer and witty company

silverguide.site – Over his kaleidoscopic career, the great Shakespearean was a stalwart of the RSC, co-founded a ‘rock’n’roll’ theatre company and excelled at Chekhov and Pinter…
Michael Pennington was an actor of astonishing range, a wise writer and witty company
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Michael Pennington, Shakespeare and Star Wars actor, dies aged 82

silverguide.site – ‘Brilliant, wise’ co-founder of English Shakespeare Company celebrated for his portrayal of roles including Macbeth and Mercutio…
Michael Pennington, Shakespeare and Star Wars actor, dies aged 82
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Foal review – British Asian’s search for belonging ripples between tenderness and rage

silverguide.site – Titas Halder’s raw solo play relays one young man’s feverish struggle in the face of racism, deftly played by Amar Chadha-Patel in his stage debut…
Foal review – British Asian’s search for belonging ripples between tenderness and rage
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The Wasp review – tormented reunion with school bully lacks sting

silverguide.site – Morgan Lloyd Malcolm’s revenge drama has plenty of rug-pulling twists, but stilted presentation leaves little sense of jeopardy…
The Wasp review – tormented reunion with school bully lacks sting
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Party Season review – kids’ birthday marathon pumps up parental anxiety to bursting point

silverguide.site – Balloons meet the sharper points of competitive parenting over a weekend of back-to-back kids’ parties, in this broad comedy of social manners…
Party Season review – kids’ birthday marathon pumps up parental anxiety to bursting point
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‘I was in a terrible state’: actor David Morrissey tells how social anxiety led him to alcoholism

silverguide.site – Speaking on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs, Liverpool-born actor says depression and anxiety followed death of his father when he was 15…
‘I was in a terrible state’: actor David Morrissey tells how social anxiety led him to alcoholism
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Bank of Dave: The Musical review – ebullient local hero story bursts into song

silverguide.site – The tale of a Burnley businessman who gives his town a financial leg-up overeggs the north-south cultural divide, but Pippa Cleary’s bright musical numbers propel the positivity…
Bank of Dave: The Musical review – ebullient local hero story bursts into song
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‘My dad cannot see me on stage doing this’: will the stigma around boys who dance ever shift?

silverguide.site – As the pioneering BalletBoyz company celebrates its 25th anniversary and Billy Elliott returns to the stage, the male dance landscape appears transformed from where it was at the turn of the century. But a certain macho dismissiveness remains ……
‘My dad cannot see me on stage doing this’: will the stigma around boys who dance ever shift?
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Bullyache: A Good Man Is Hard to Find review – banking bros face their reckoning in grim gameshow

silverguide.site – Courtney Deyn and Jacob Samuel conjure a bleak world of excess, ritual and power in a visually striking but limited piece of dance-theatre…
Bullyache: A Good Man Is Hard to Find review – banking bros face their reckoning in grim gameshow
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The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher review – Hilary Mantel tale is provocative, powerful theatre

silverguide.site – Beginning as a culture clash comedy with cups of tea and deadly intent, this two-hander becomes boldly arresting…
The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher review – Hilary Mantel tale is provocative, powerful theatre
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Waitress review – sweet but underbaked Broadway musical finally arrives in Australia

silverguide.site – Even among the notoriously thin plots of musicals, this one feels particularly underfed – though Natalie Bassingthwaighte does a reasonable job…
Waitress review – sweet but underbaked Broadway musical finally arrives in Australia
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Fourteen Again review – make a new musical out of Victoria Wood’s warmly witty songs? Let’s do it!

silverguide.site – Marking 10 years since the late comic’s death, this affectionate show blends her songs with a time-slip tale of friendship, regret and middle age…
Fourteen Again review – make a new musical out of Victoria Wood’s warmly witty songs? Let’s do it!
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Ashley Gavin review – a close look at the clitoris, gender and the ‘manly’ business of getting pregnant

silverguide.site – The masc lesbian comic from New York delivers a superb set with big laughs and twisty gender logic…
Ashley Gavin review – a close look at the clitoris, gender and the ‘manly’ business of getting pregnant
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Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo review – slapstick ballet troupe is always on pointe

silverguide.site – Men in tutus and pointe shoes loving and parodying their art form never ages; it’s both simple and very sophisticated…
Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo review – slapstick ballet troupe is always on pointe
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Magic review – spellbinding standoff between Houdini and Conan Doyle

silverguide.site – David Haig shines as writer and star of this dramatisation about the fraught friendship of two entertainment giants and their debate over what is real or simply illusion…
Magic review – spellbinding standoff between Houdini and Conan Doyle
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The Lost Boys and Schmigadoon! lead Tony nominations with Rose Byrne and Daniel Radcliffe in the race

silverguide.site – Nominations also include recognitions for actors including Nathan Lane and Luke Evans while stars such as Lea Michele and Ayo Edebiri were snubbed…
The Lost Boys and Schmigadoon! lead Tony nominations with Rose Byrne and Daniel Radcliffe in the race
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Michael Spicer: ‘Monty Python taught me that authority figures must earn our respect’

silverguide.site – The Room Next Door star on overnight success, ‘sneaky follows’ from politicians and how internet commenting has dragged society down…
Michael Spicer: ‘Monty Python taught me that authority figures must earn our respect’
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