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Death of a Salesman review – Nathan Lane and Laurie Metcalf hypnotize in revival

silverguide.site – Arthur Miller’s 1949 autopsy of the American dream finds new urgency in a stripped-back production…
Death of a Salesman review – Nathan Lane and Laurie Metcalf hypnotize in revival
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Keith Hodiak obituary

silverguide.site – Dancer with Ballet Rambert who later worked as a model and performed in musicals for the Royal Shakespeare Company…
Keith Hodiak obituary
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A Doll’s House review – sex, drugs and Romola Garai in a heroic Ibsen update

silverguide.site – Anya Reiss packs the marriage scandal plot with inspired ideas, from convincing talk of Instagram to a look at sexual dynamics in the crosshairs of contemporary capitalism…
A Doll’s House review – sex, drugs and Romola Garai in a heroic Ibsen update
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Kiss of the Spider Woman review – Hollywood high kicks into a slick musical revival

silverguide.site – Two prisoners escape their grim Buenos Aires jail into golden age fantasy sequences that elicit big belting showtunes from Anna-Jane Casey’s baddie…
Kiss of the Spider Woman review – Hollywood high kicks into a slick musical revival
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Dan Rath: Help Me Please review – you won’t find another standup with more jokes a minute

silverguide.site – Melbourne international comedy festivalBuckle up: the comedian doesn’t give his audience a moment to relax as he delivers a relentless string of one-liners in a show that never hits everyone all at once…
Dan Rath: Help Me Please review – you won’t find another standup with more jokes a minute
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‘When the knife came up through the pool table, audiences gasped’: how Iraq war epic Black Watch conquered the world

silverguide.site – It was the play that rocked a nation. The makers of the devastating drama, which transported audiences from a Fife pub to a war zone, recall how it grew and grew…
‘When the knife came up through the pool table, audiences gasped’: how Iraq war epic Black Watch conquered the world
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Copenhagen review – atomic secrets and moral fog in a terrifyingly timely revival

silverguide.site – Michael Frayn’s cerebral drama of science and conscience returns with urgency – though Michael Longhurst’s production struggles to ignite its emotional core…
Copenhagen review – atomic secrets and moral fog in a terrifyingly timely revival
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Dance hall dynamite just keeps on giving: Pina Bausch/Meryl Tankard: Kontakthof, Echoes of 78 review

silverguide.site – This parody of courting rituals brings back its inaugural dancers 48 years on – ghosting their onstage choreography with footage of their younger selves, for a moving look at the passing of time…
Dance hall dynamite just keeps on giving: Pina Bausch/Meryl Tankard: Kontakthof, Echoes of 78 review
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The River review – slippery Jez Butterworth play remains a headscratcher

silverguide.site – Sydney Theatre CompanyMiranda Otto, Ewen Leslie and Andrea Demetriades are all pleasant to watch but this decade-old play is sometimes obnoxiously mysterious…
The River review – slippery Jez Butterworth play remains a headscratcher
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Cats: The Jellicle Ball review – ingenious musical revival goes full queer ball

silverguide.site – After a disastrous 2019 movie, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s easily ridiculed 80s smash hit has now been transformed into something thrillingly new…
Cats: The Jellicle Ball review – ingenious musical revival goes full queer ball
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Letter: Jane Lapotaire obituary

silverguide.site – Gareth Jones writes: Jane was rushed to a major hospital and then transferred to the top neurological institute in Paris…
Letter: Jane Lapotaire obituary
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Oh what a circus! The Greatest Showman hits the stage as a high-flying, hammer-juggling, banger-filled spectacular

silverguide.site – The sleeper hit film has been transformed into a Disney stage show. But does it let exploitative huckster PT Barnum off the hook? We go behind the scenes of its launch run in Bristol…
Oh what a circus! The Greatest Showman hits the stage as a high-flying, hammer-juggling, banger-filled spectacular
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Becky Shaw review – Alden Ehrenreich shines in dysfunctional dating comedy

silverguide.site – Ehrenreich is electric alongside The Pitt’s Patrick Ball in this very 2008 send-up of the fallout from one disastrous blind date…
Becky Shaw review – Alden Ehrenreich shines in dysfunctional dating comedy
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Aisling Bea review – glamourpuss meets accidental mum in a scatty show that revels in immaturity

silverguide.site – The sitcom star and Taskmaster stalwart is on commanding form as she embarks on Older Than Jesus, her first – and deeply daft – standup tour…
Aisling Bea review – glamourpuss meets accidental mum in a scatty show that revels in immaturity
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Victoria: A Queen Unbound review – darkness lurks beneath the myth of a model royal marriage

silverguide.site – Screenwriter Daisy Goodwin imagines the old queen revisiting her diaries and reveals a tale of control and coercion behind Albert’s dutiful devotion…
Victoria: A Queen Unbound review – darkness lurks beneath the myth of a model royal marriage
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Monica Barbaro: ‘Yesterday I went home thinking I’m a terrible actor and they’re finding out’

silverguide.site – The California star may have earned an Oscar nomination for her portrayal of Joan Baez in Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown, but as she prepares for her stage debut in Les Liaisons Dangereuses, she says impostor syndrome is still a big problem…
Monica Barbaro: ‘Yesterday I went home thinking I’m a terrible actor and they’re finding out’
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Josh Thomas: ‘If I could fight someone, I’d go big: Harry Styles. Or is Margaret Thatcher still alive?’

silverguide.site – The Australian comedian on being tackled by 80 children, his nemesis and swapping bodies with Abbie Chatfield…
Josh Thomas: ‘If I could fight someone, I’d go big: Harry Styles. Or is Margaret Thatcher still alive?’
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‘Luckily, I wasn’t decapitated’: 17 comedians’ stories from 40 years of Melbourne international comedy festival

silverguide.site – Wil Anderson, Lano and Woodley, Aaron Chen, Urzila Carlson and more share memories from 40 years at MICF, including fires, camels and weddings…
‘Luckily, I wasn’t decapitated’: 17 comedians’ stories from 40 years of Melbourne international comedy festival
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The High Life: The Musical, Still Living It! review – the Alan Cumming creation flies into deliriously silly panto territory

silverguide.site – Cumming and Forbes Masson revive their cult 1994 TV sitcom with brilliant songs and a Beano-esque plot as budget Air Scotia is threatened with takeover…
The High Life: The Musical, Still Living It! review – the Alan Cumming creation flies into deliriously silly panto territory
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‘It was a warning from history – now it’s the bloody muse!’ Mark Gatiss and Placebo on reviving Brecht’s brutal Hitler satire

silverguide.site – In these turbulent times, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui has never been more vital, and returns to the stage starring the Sherlock star and with music by the alt-rockers. But, they say, they don’t just want to preach to the choir…
‘It was a warning from history – now it’s the bloody muse!’ Mark Gatiss and Placebo on reviving Brecht’s brutal Hitler satire
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