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‘Robin Williams said: “I’ll buy the club!”’: how The Comic Strip set the UK comedy scene ablaze

silverguide.site – It started in a strip joint and ended up bringing alternative comedy to our TV screens. Ahead of a new Edinburgh show, Peter Richardson tells us why his riotous creation still makes audiences laugh 40 years on…
‘Robin Williams said: “I’ll buy the club!”’: how The Comic Strip set the UK comedy scene ablaze
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Smart, sharp and nonstop dance: how Twyla Tharp is bossing the Venice Dance Biennale in her 80s

silverguide.site – Tharp picked up a Golden Lion award for her experimental and accessible choreography, while Carolina Bianchi won a Silver Lion for her fearless exploration of sexual assault…
Smart, sharp and nonstop dance: how Twyla Tharp is bossing the Venice Dance Biennale in her 80s
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Sing Street review – uplifting songs and strong voices lift 80s Dublin-set musical

silverguide.site – The stage version of John Carney’s film stays bright-eyed despite the darker turns in this tale of teenage pop, poverty and fractious families…
Sing Street review – uplifting songs and strong voices lift 80s Dublin-set musical
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Riders to the Sea / Macbeth review – intense double bill linked by elemental forces of nature

silverguide.site – To mark their 50th anniversary, Druid Theatre Company pair Shakespeare with JM Synge’s stark one-act tragedy…
Riders to the Sea / Macbeth review – intense double bill linked by elemental forces of nature
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Oh … review – underwater piano playing serves up a skilful aquarium spectacle

silverguide.site – Mikel Murfi enters the three-metre-high glass tank to lift weights, look lost and direct fishy traffic…
Oh … review – underwater piano playing serves up a skilful aquarium spectacle
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The Estate review – Adeel Akhtar is unmissable as ferociously ambitious MP

silverguide.site – Shaan Sahota’s play sets a British-Sikh politician’s schemes against his family betrayal – a tremendous debut from a writer of huge promise…
The Estate review – Adeel Akhtar is unmissable as ferociously ambitious MP
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Circle Mirror Transformation review – a heart-first play of human connection

silverguide.site – Logie winner Rebecca Gibney leads a suite of strong performances in Pulitzer prize-winning playwright Annie Baker’s gentle, generous comedy set in a community centre drama class…
Circle Mirror Transformation review – a heart-first play of human connection
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Poor Clare review – sassy spin on a medieval saint asks pithy questions

silverguide.site – Casting two Netflix stars in this funny and astute modernisation of the life of Saint Clare of Assisi shows that the gulf between rich and poor never changes…
Poor Clare review – sassy spin on a medieval saint asks pithy questions
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The Railway Children review – a real steam train is the spectacular star

silverguide.site – Stupendous set design brings E Nesbit’s children’s classic to new life as a wealthy Anglo-Indian family is forced to adjust to reduced life in Yorkshire in this irresistible adaptation…
The Railway Children review – a real steam train is the spectacular star
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Here You Come Again review – Dolly Parton musical fails to hit a high note

silverguide.site – Tricia Paoluccio is very good as Parton, but a painfully thin plot about a solipsistic manchild who is visited by the singer-turned-guardian-angel is just tedious…
Here You Come Again review – Dolly Parton musical fails to hit a high note
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Sara Pascoe: I Am a Strange Gloop review – terrific standup’s uphill struggles

silverguide.site – The comedian staggers from the soft play area to deliver a philosophical set about Sisyphus, capitalism and motherhood…
Sara Pascoe: I Am a Strange Gloop review – terrific standup’s uphill struggles
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Kathy Maniura: ‘I’ve played a paper straw, a nervous smoke alarm and now a middle-aged cycling man’

silverguide.site – The sketch comedian, who merges gentle absurdity with drag, on performing in the rain to an audience of two and how the comedy world needs to change…
Kathy Maniura: ‘I’ve played a paper straw, a nervous smoke alarm and now a middle-aged cycling man’
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‘Beautiful form isn’t enough’: National Ballet of Japan – picture essay

silverguide.site – Photographer David Levene gained access to the ballet company as they prepared for Ballet Coffret, ahead of a UK tour this month where they will also be performing Giselle at the Royal Opera House. We spoke to one of the principal dancers, Yui Yonezawa…
‘Beautiful form isn’t enough’: National Ballet of Japan – picture essay
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Minnie Driver signs up for lead role as Every Brilliant Thing comes to West End

silverguide.site – The actor follows stars including Lenny Henry and Sue Perkins to lead hit show where a single performer enlists the audience’s help to tell ‘funny, sad and unique’ story…
Minnie Driver signs up for lead role as Every Brilliant Thing comes to West End
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The play that changed my life: ‘Michael Gambon’s offstage anarchy as Falstaff made the show better’

silverguide.site – When Elliot Levey was cast in Henry IV, Parts One and Two, he didn’t expect water-bombing, corpsing and a character redefined by new teeth…
The play that changed my life: ‘Michael Gambon’s offstage anarchy as Falstaff made the show better’
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‘I would go-go dance in a shower then work on sonnets!’ Ncuti Gatwa’s sexy new Shakespearean drama

silverguide.site – After surviving the whirlwind of Doctor Who, the actor returns to the stage in ‘horny Elizabethan drama’ Born With Teeth. He and co-star Edward Bluemel discuss bust lips, hot pants and queering the Bard’s story…
‘I would go-go dance in a shower then work on sonnets!’ Ncuti Gatwa’s sexy new Shakespearean drama
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Cheers to The Weir! What makes Conor McPherson’s mysterious pub drama so mesmerising?

silverguide.site – As Brendan Gleeson prepares for his role in a revival of the 1997 hit, the stars of earlier productions toast its deceptively moving and profound barfly banter…
Cheers to The Weir! What makes Conor McPherson’s mysterious pub drama so mesmerising?
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‘That’s where I found my family’: dancefloor devotees on hedonistic moves and healing grooves

silverguide.site – A new season at London’s Southbank Centre is inspired by Emma Warren’s book Dance Your Way Home, about the potency of communal movement. She and other artists involved explain why the dancefloor is their happy place…
‘That’s where I found my family’: dancefloor devotees on hedonistic moves and healing grooves
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Comedian John Tothill: ‘My second near-death experience? I blame the bedtime cheesy chips’

silverguide.site – The foppish comic underwent a drugs trial to fund his Edinburgh show – and caught malaria. The next year he almost died on stage with an exploded appendix. Why is he going back?…
Comedian John Tothill: ‘My second near-death experience? I blame the bedtime cheesy chips’
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Kimberly Akimbo review – this Tony-winning musical is a joyous treasure

silverguide.site – Her Majesty’s theatre, Adelaide; then Arts Centre MelbourneStarring Marina Prior, Christie Whelan Browne and Casey Donovan, this Broadway hit about a teenager who ages four times too fast is both absurd and introspective…
Kimberly Akimbo review – this Tony-winning musical is a joyous treasure
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