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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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‘It’s not happy-clappy’: the extraordinary story of Speedo Mick

silverguide.site – As a musical about him opens at Liverpool’s Royal Court, Michael Cullen tells of hope, heart – and hitting rock bottom…
‘It’s not happy-clappy’: the extraordinary story of Speedo Mick
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Tony awards 2025: Maybe Happy Ending and Nicole Scherzinger win big while George Clooney misses out

silverguide.site – The romantic robot musical picked up six awards while Clooney’s box office smash Good Night, and Good Luck left empty-handed…
Tony awards 2025: Maybe Happy Ending and Nicole Scherzinger win big while George Clooney misses out
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Tony awards 2025: full list of winners

silverguide.site – Tonight’s winners included Maybe Happy Ending and Purpose and actors Sarah Snook and Nicole Scherzinger…
Tony awards 2025: full list of winners
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Miss Myrtle’s Garden review – immersion into a mindscape of sharp quips and memory slips

silverguide.site – Artistic director Taio Lawson’s Bush debut shows the heartbreaking fallout of an 82-year-old mother whose acid tongue belies her faltering memory…
Miss Myrtle’s Garden review – immersion into a mindscape of sharp quips and memory slips
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No Title (An Experiment) review – Willem Dafoe’s return to avant garde theatre is oddly banal

silverguide.site – Between smashing glasses and reading conceptual index cards, Dafoe and Simonetta Solder neglect to locate this two-hander’s drama – or its heart…
No Title (An Experiment) review – Willem Dafoe’s return to avant garde theatre is oddly banal
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Changes review – secrets, blackmail and lightning fast role-juggling

silverguide.site – In an extraordinary theatrical feat, two agile actors play 23 characters populating the seemingly ordinary working day of a central couple…
Changes review – secrets, blackmail and lightning fast role-juggling
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The Potato Eaters review – a descent from visceral dread into full-blown terror

silverguide.site – On the site of a hospital for leprosy patients, audience members are invited to wander in near darkness among twitching body bags into a choreographed scene of ritualised tyranny…
The Potato Eaters review – a descent from visceral dread into full-blown terror
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