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Just in Time review – Bobby Darin musical is light on detail but big on charm

silverguide.site – Jonathan Groff uses his considerable charisma to embody the late singer with pizzazz in a rousing yet incomplete Broadway show…
Just in Time review – Bobby Darin musical is light on detail but big on charm

Krapp’s Last Tape review – Gary Oldman’s arresting one-man Beckett is a startling piece of theatre

silverguide.site – Oldman gives an emotional encounter with his past selves as he single-handedly directs, set-designs and performs Samuel Beckett’s existential monologue…
Krapp’s Last Tape review – Gary Oldman’s arresting one-man Beckett is a startling piece of theatre

Detained Chinese immigrants carved their anguish into a wall a century ago. Those words inspired a ballet

silverguide.site – Oakland Ballet Company takes on a harrowing chapter of US-Chinese history with a piece about Angel Island, ‘the Ellis Island of the west’…
Detained Chinese immigrants carved their anguish into a wall a century ago. Those words inspired a ballet

The Brightening Air review – shades of Vanya as a Sligo family squabble, tease and wrestle

silverguide.site – Terrific performances from Chris O’Dowd and Rosie Sheehy lead a populous family drama hinging on a broken-down country farmhouse…
The Brightening Air review – shades of Vanya as a Sligo family squabble, tease and wrestle

‘It’s Fleabag’s home – the audience is unshockable’: Phoebe Waller-Bridge and more on 25 years of Soho theatre

silverguide.site – The central London institution champions new talent, amplifies LGBTQ+ voices and always takes risks. With a new outpost opening in Walthamstow, artists discuss how the West End venue is not just a place – it’s a philosophy…
‘It’s Fleabag’s home – the audience is unshockable’: Phoebe Waller-Bridge and more on 25 years of Soho theatre

The Great Gatsby: A New Musical review – what a swell party this ain’t

silverguide.site – F Scott Fitzgerald’s classic jazz age novel ought to be a perfect basis for a musical, but no amount of Charlestons from a fine cast can put the fizz into this…
The Great Gatsby: A New Musical review – what a swell party this ain’t

Letter: Mike Bradwell obituary

silverguide.site – Peter Rankin writes: He worked as a fly-man, lowering and raising scenery, on Joan Littlewood’s production of The Marie Lloyd Story…
Letter: Mike Bradwell obituary

How to Fight Loneliness review – death hovers over impossibly awkward social gathering

silverguide.site – Neil LaBute’s mordant humour comes to the fore in this three-hander, full of hyper-real dialogue, about the right to choose the manner of our departure…
How to Fight Loneliness review – death hovers over impossibly awkward social gathering

Lena Dunham and Carly Rae Jepsen to bring 10 Things I Hate About You to Broadway

silverguide.site – The 1999 teen hit is set to become a Broadway musical with the Girls creator and pop singer-songwriter teaming up…
Lena Dunham and Carly Rae Jepsen to bring 10 Things I Hate About You to Broadway

Personal Values review – shocks as sisters reunite for the first time since their father’s funeral

silverguide.site – Bea, a hoarder, is visited by Veda, who carries a secret, to fix the rift between them in Chloë Lawrence-Taylor’s debut play, which shows a unique grasp of human behaviour…
Personal Values review – shocks as sisters reunite for the first time since their father’s funeral

Much Ado About Nothing review – RSC boots the action to elite Italian football in a play of two halves

silverguide.site – Royal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonBenedick is a midfielder for Serie A team FC Messina in a show with top-form performances and a clever visual metaphor, albeit some pacing problems in the final third…
Much Ado About Nothing review – RSC boots the action to elite Italian football in a play of two halves

Charlene Kaye: the 10 funniest things I have ever seen (on the internet)

silverguide.site – The millennial musician and comedian on the clips that melt her brain, from Christian rap to 2012-core esoterica and an epic televised free-jazz fail…
Charlene Kaye: the 10 funniest things I have ever seen (on the internet)

Renee Goddard obituary

silverguide.site – Actor and script editor who oversaw programmes at ATV and introduced foreign drama to Channel 4…
Renee Goddard obituary

‘The audience chucked food at us!’ Emilyn Claid on angry shows, her ballet shame and gardening for Martha Graham

silverguide.site – As she unveils The Trembling Forest with an ensemble of clay-covered performers, the great dance disruptor looks back on decades of radical and autobiographical shows…
‘The audience chucked food at us!’ Emilyn Claid on angry shows, her ballet shame and gardening for Martha Graham

Playwright Asif Khan: ‘When people think about theatre, they think white people and Shakespeare’

silverguide.site – Sisters 360, Khan’s new play for children, tells the story of two hijab-wearing skateboarding sisters in Bradford. He hopes it will upend lazy ideas around Muslim girls – and bring new audiences to the theatre…
Playwright Asif Khan: ‘When people think about theatre, they think white people and Shakespeare’

Greg Larsen: Geggy review – a very funny standup on why he’s quitting comedy

silverguide.site – Assured performer leads a chaotic journey through his career’s highs and lows – and the decisions that led him to a McDonald’s drive thru ……
Greg Larsen: Geggy review – a very funny standup on why he’s quitting comedy

Neil Hornick obituary

silverguide.site – Other lives: Co-founder and long-serving artistic director of the Phantom Captain experimental theatre company…
Neil Hornick obituary

Snow White/Snow White: The Sacrifice review – puts the Grimm back in the tale

silverguide.site – BalletLorent stages two dance-theatre versions of the fairytale – one for all the family, another for mature audiences – but both are attuned to its horror and weirdness…
Snow White/Snow White: The Sacrifice review – puts the Grimm back in the tale

Piaf review – Audrey Brisson rises above the melee as the French singer

silverguide.site – Pam Gems’s play with music loses focus with its small cast playing multiple characters – and musical instruments – but its star brings it all together…
Piaf review – Audrey Brisson rises above the melee as the French singer

The week in theatre: Speed; Shanghai Dolls – review

silverguide.site – Mohamed-Zain Dada makes a darkly comic drama out of a speed awareness course, while clever design elevates Amy Ng’s play about Madame Mao…
The week in theatre: Speed; Shanghai Dolls – review
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