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The Ministry of Lesbian Affairs review – exuberant musical drama wriggles its way into your heart

silverguide.site – Iman Qureshi’s play starts as a good, old-fashioned underdog story before exploring sexuality, homophobia and trans identity…
The Ministry of Lesbian Affairs review – exuberant musical drama wriggles its way into your heart
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Adeel Akhtar: ‘It seemed late in the day to start noticing Asian actors … we’ve been here a really long time’

silverguide.site – He’s had supporting roles in almost every big TV show of the past few years, but now the man nicknamed Ideal Actor is taking the lead on stage, playing a top politician. He talks about challenging perceptions, being detained by the FBI and how he’s ‘redefining the idea of the everyman’…
Adeel Akhtar: ‘It seemed late in the day to start noticing Asian actors … we’ve been here a really long time’
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‘My heart is pounding’: experiencing Rachel Zegler’s Evita balcony scene from the humble pavement

silverguide.site – Paying theatregoers have bemoaned watching Don’t Cry For Me Argentina on livestream while passersby experience it live for free. But is it a seven-minute stunt worth waiting for?…
‘My heart is pounding’: experiencing Rachel Zegler’s Evita balcony scene from the humble pavement
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Cats review – Andrew Lloyd Webber’s tired show has run out of lives

silverguide.site – There are joyful moments and beautiful dance formations, but what a shame it’s all in service to the same old musical…
Cats review – Andrew Lloyd Webber’s tired show has run out of lives
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Inflexible autocrat, unchecked power – Coriolanus is ‘never not timely’. So why is this Shakespeare play so rarely staged?

silverguide.site – The bruising exploration of politics, power and civic identity plays out in front of an audience split into two sides for Bell Shakespeare’s take…
Inflexible autocrat, unchecked power – Coriolanus is ‘never not timely’. So why is this Shakespeare play so rarely staged?
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54.60 Africa review – a freewheeling, weeklong tour around the continent

silverguide.site – On a quest to visit all 54 African nations, a band of travellers explore personal, political and social history – but it can be hard to work out what’s happening…
54.60 Africa review – a freewheeling, weeklong tour around the continent
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Edinburgh festival 2025: 20 theatre shows to see this summer

silverguide.site – Peter Pan has a pop fantasy, Faustus is in Africa, Brian Cox leads a banking satire and Billy Connolly meets the late Alasdair Gray. Elsewhere, the joy of pickling, a landmark jazz album and Elton John’s libel case take centre stage…
Edinburgh festival 2025: 20 theatre shows to see this summer
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‘No one is immune to grief’: the team turning A Single Man into a sexy, grimy, heartbreaking ballet

silverguide.site – Musician John Grant was blown away by Christopher Isherwood’s 1964 novel, finding deep resonances in its tale of gay love and loss. Now, he’s put songs to choreographer Jonathan Watkins’s new dance adaptation…
‘No one is immune to grief’: the team turning A Single Man into a sexy, grimy, heartbreaking ballet
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Pioneering London playwright decried gentrification of ‘writer’s paradise’

silverguide.site – In 1992 letter, Mustapha Matura warned of risk to Ladbroke Grove, home to strong Caribbean creative community…
Pioneering London playwright decried gentrification of ‘writer’s paradise’
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Inside a deserted Melbourne shopping mall is a bizarre XR journey into psychosis

silverguide.site – The Door in Question uses VR headsets, sound and even smells to create an immersive experience inspired by its creator’s experience with mental illness…
Inside a deserted Melbourne shopping mall is a bizarre XR journey into psychosis
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‘What are you trying to incite?’ Billy Porter asks thorny questions with This Bitter Earth

silverguide.site – The Cabaret and Pose star is making his UK directorial debut with Harrison David Rivers’ play about love and activism. We join rehearsals with Omari Douglas and Alexander Lincoln…
‘What are you trying to incite?’ Billy Porter asks thorny questions with This Bitter Earth
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4.48 Psychosis review – bared anguish and delicate detail in Sarah Kane’s final play

silverguide.site – Kane’s emotionally unswerving gifts as a writer are on full display in a 25th-anniversary production reuniting the original cast…
4.48 Psychosis review – bared anguish and delicate detail in Sarah Kane’s final play
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Alan Strachan obituary

silverguide.site – Director in the West End and regional theatre for five decades who often worked with the playwright Alan Ayckbourn…
Alan Strachan obituary
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‘Making sure everyone can see the plays’: can Hugh Jackman make theater less elitist?

silverguide.site – Together with Sonia Friedman and Ian Rickson, the Hollywood star has helped to create a new initiative aiming to provide high-quality theater for a low price…
‘Making sure everyone can see the plays’: can Hugh Jackman make theater less elitist?
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Don’t cry for me, all you boozers! The trouble with shifting Evita’s big balcony number from stage to street

silverguide.site – In the new Evita at the London Palladium, Rachel Zegler sings from the theatre’s actual balcony – meaning the big-paying audience doesn’t experience what passersby get for free. Could this gimmick catch on?…
Don’t cry for me, all you boozers! The trouble with shifting Evita’s big balcony number from stage to street
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Lovestuck review – superb dating disaster musical inspired by unfortunate toilet accident

silverguide.site – This show, based on a gone-viral Tinder date in which a woman tried to dispose of her poo unconventionally, tackles the perils of modern love with wit, humour and cracking songs…
Lovestuck review – superb dating disaster musical inspired by unfortunate toilet accident
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Letter: Gawn Grainger obituary

silverguide.site – Simon Treves writes: Gawn never lost his extraordinary humility and bonhomie…
Letter: Gawn Grainger obituary
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Paying Evita audience upset as Don’t Cry delivered offstage to West End passersby for free

silverguide.site – Paying audiences divided over staging in which they get video feed of Rachel Zegler singing on balcony to passersby…
Paying Evita audience upset as Don’t Cry delivered offstage to West End passersby for free
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Did the liberation of Africa start in Manchester? The biting play about a pivotal, forgotten moment

silverguide.site – It was a turning point in the push for African independence – and it took place in Chorlton-on-Medlock Town Hall. We meet the writer of a play about the fifth Pan-African Congress…
Did the liberation of Africa start in Manchester? The biting play about a pivotal, forgotten moment
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Theatrical hitmaker Justin Martin on Prima Facie’s follow-up: ‘It wrestles with how to bring up boys’

silverguide.site – The director of Jodie Comer’s tour de force is now staging Inter Alia, another legal drama by Suzie Miller. He talks about steering Stranger Things: The First Shadow, resisting the classics and his double act with Stephen Daldry…
Theatrical hitmaker Justin Martin on Prima Facie’s follow-up: ‘It wrestles with how to bring up boys’
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