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The play that changed my life: ‘Daniel Kaluuya winked at me and my mum – and said he acted better for us’

silverguide.site – A ringside seat at Roy Williams’ Sucker Punch inspired a teenager to switch career plans from law to theatre…
The play that changed my life: ‘Daniel Kaluuya winked at me and my mum – and said he acted better for us’
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The Cave review – dark-humoured tale of brothers’ emotional descent

silverguide.site – Tommy Tiernan and Aaron Monaghan are given comedic free rein as a pair of hapless, homeless siblings in Kevin Barry’s Beckettian take on rural dysfunction…
The Cave review – dark-humoured tale of brothers’ emotional descent
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Stereophonic review – 70s band saga is an extraordinary, electrifying odyssey

silverguide.site – This stunningly rendered tale of a band on the brink of creative genius or total meltdown is a triumph, with a standout cast and score…
Stereophonic review – 70s band saga is an extraordinary, electrifying odyssey
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Anna Karenina review – Tolstoy’s tragedy fizzes with theatrical brilliance

silverguide.site – Natalie Dormer is exceptional in the title role while Phillip Breen’s production reflects the scope of the novel’s ambition, though the story never fully reaches its emotional depths…
Anna Karenina review – Tolstoy’s tragedy fizzes with theatrical brilliance
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‘Completely captivated’: the rousing return of musicals’ dream ballets

silverguide.site – From Oklahoma! and Singin’ in the Rain to The Big Lebowski and Maestro, these showstoppers give a blissful hit of dance. A Rodgers and Hammerstein triple bill at Regent’s Park Open Air theatre reawakens the tradition…
‘Completely captivated’: the rousing return of musicals’ dream ballets
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Call Me Izzy review – Jean Smart is better than her one-woman show

silverguide.site – The Hacks star is magnetic but the show, where she plays a woman finding herself late in life, can’t match her…
Call Me Izzy review – Jean Smart is better than her one-woman show
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The Spare Room review – Judy Davis is electric in thrilling adaptation of Helen Garner novel

silverguide.site – The powerhouse actor and the author’s keen prose fuel this show about a woman grappling with grief and rage while caring for her dying friend…
The Spare Room review – Judy Davis is electric in thrilling adaptation of Helen Garner novel
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Storehouse review – an exasperating wander through the internet’s ‘arkive’

silverguide.site – While Liana Patarkatsishvili’s gargantuan immersive show looks spectacular, too many ideas are thrown about without being tethered to a story…
Storehouse review – an exasperating wander through the internet’s ‘arkive’
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Sydney Theatre Company books $10m revenue boost after Dorian Gray production becomes global hit

silverguide.site – Company due to reap more millions from cut in award-winning Broadway run starring Sarah Snook…
Sydney Theatre Company books $10m revenue boost after Dorian Gray production becomes global hit
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Angry Alan review – John Krasinski gets red-pilled in a tense, timely play

silverguide.site – The Office’s Jim Halpert plays a divorced everyman who falls into an internet wormhole in a fiery one-man show…
Angry Alan review – John Krasinski gets red-pilled in a tense, timely play
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Amplified review – loving but uneven musical tribute to the Divinyls’ Chrissy Amphlett

silverguide.site – Actor Sheridan Harbridge attempts to revive Amphlett’s spirit in this part-biographical tour, part-tribute concert, but no truly illuminating portrait of the singer emerges…
Amplified review – loving but uneven musical tribute to the Divinyls’ Chrissy Amphlett
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Greg Davies: Full Fat Legend review – Taskmaster manchild lists his humiliations

silverguide.site – Davies uses his ostentatiously puerile sense of humour to fine comic effect, with a series of stories capturing his long struggle to get over himself…
Greg Davies: Full Fat Legend review – Taskmaster manchild lists his humiliations
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Magdalena, Woman of Joy review – sex, sin and saintliness with a tour de force host

silverguide.site – Lily Sinko rages, writhes, provokes and teases her way through the horrifying life story of her storyteller with cartoonish abandon…
Magdalena, Woman of Joy review – sex, sin and saintliness with a tour de force host
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Relief after 10 dance centres for children across England saved from cuts

silverguide.site – Campaigners including Arlene Phillips and Matthew Bourne welcome funding for National Dance CATs they say keeps art form from being preserve of elite…
Relief after 10 dance centres for children across England saved from cuts
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‘Stupider than everyone else’: one comic’s semi-naked bid to perform dozens of Penguin novels

silverguide.site – In a riotous show, Garry Starr dons a tailcoat, flippers and little else to re-enact a bookshelf full of classics. Would you help him bring The Jungle Book to life?…
‘Stupider than everyone else’: one comic’s semi-naked bid to perform dozens of Penguin novels
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Stars: An Afrofuturist Space Odyssey review – mission to Planet Orgasm

silverguide.site – Mojisola Adebayo’s play deftly navigates light and heavy subject matter as its hero embarks on a quest to feel the earth move…
Stars: An Afrofuturist Space Odyssey review – mission to Planet Orgasm
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From Hadestown to Hercules: ancient myths are the gods’ gift to musicals

silverguide.site – Newly arrived in the West End, Disney’s demigod is the latest mythological A-lister to knock out showtunes. Why are deities such as Hermes and the ‘half-blood’ Percy Jackson having a moment in musical theatre?…
From Hadestown to Hercules: ancient myths are the gods’ gift to musicals
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Katherine Ryan: Battleaxe review – comedy’s ice queen melts into audience agony aunt

silverguide.site – In a show of two halves, the caustic standup is at her best when rolling her eyes at the weaker sex, but her post-interval crowd-counselling doesn’t quite cut it…
Katherine Ryan: Battleaxe review – comedy’s ice queen melts into audience agony aunt
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‘A gift of a role for a mother’: Game of Thrones star Natalie Dormer on playing Tolstoy’s tortured Anna Karenina

silverguide.site – From Anne Boleyn to Lady W to Game of Thrones, she has played tough women who kick against society’s constraints. What will the actor bring to the great Russian character who leaves her husband and son?…
‘A gift of a role for a mother’: Game of Thrones star Natalie Dormer on playing Tolstoy’s tortured Anna Karenina
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‘It will lift the spirits’: Kyiv to stage ‘most English of ballets’ after Russian repertoire boycott

silverguide.site – Frederick Ashton’s La Fille mal gardée to be performed for first time, replacing classics by Tchaikovsky and Stravinsky after fundraising in London…
‘It will lift the spirits’: Kyiv to stage ‘most English of ballets’ after Russian repertoire boycott
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