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NEWS: Online rehearsal platform We Perform It announces £1000 competition

In Featured Shows, Features, Native, News, Online shows, Press Releases, Video by Featured Content9th March 2022

We Perform It is pleased to announce that the 2022 We Perform It Online Acting Competition is now open. Entry to the competition is free and with a prize of £1,000.

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FEATURED SHOW: Dating-while-disabled comedy Kerbs is ‘truly one of a kind’. Reviews are in!

In Featured Shows, Features, London theatre, Native, Opinion, Photos, Plays, Regional theatre, Reviews, Touring by Featured Content8th March 2022

First reviews are in for Michael Southan’s “comical, heart-warming and enlightening” debut play Kerbs. The new comedy about dating whilst disabled, co-produced by Graeae and Belgrade Theatre, is now on tour. Don’t miss!

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REVIEW ROUND-UP: But I’m a Cheerleader at the Turbine Theatre

In Features, London theatre, Musicals, Opinion, Other Recent Articles, Reviews by Emma Clarendon7th March 2022Leave a Comment

On LoveLondonLoveCulture, Emma Clarendon rounds up the reviews for Bill Augustin and Andrew Abrams’ new musical But I’m a Cheerleader, running at London’s Turbine Theatre until 16 April 2022.

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‘It definitely is not your typical or traditional adaptation’: Sasha Frost on starring in Jane Austen’s Persuasion

In Features, Interviews, London theatre, Opinion, Other Recent Articles, Plays by Emma Clarendon6th March 2022Leave a Comment

We chatted to Sasha Frost about starring in the new stage adaptation of Jane Austen’s literary classic Persuasion, now at Kingston’s Rose Theatre before Alexandra Palace and Oxford Playhouse.

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‘Spreading joy & laughter is my talent’: Italian cabaret artist Anita Luna on bringing THE DIVA back to London

In Cabaret, Featured Shows, Features, Festivals, Interviews, London theatre, Native, News, Video by Featured Content4th March 2022

She can’t get enough of London and London can’t get enough of her! Internationally acclaimed, Italian cabaret artist Anita Luna returns this month with THE DIVA. Before packing her bags, she took a break to tell us more about the award-winning one-woman show.

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REVIEW ROUND-UP: Running With Lions at the Lyric Hammersmith

In Features, London theatre, Opinion, Other Recent Articles, Plays, Reviews by Emma Clarendon3rd March 2022Leave a Comment

On LoveLondonLoveCulture, Emma Clarendon rounds up the reviews for Sian Carter’s debut play Running with Lions. The premiere production runs at London’s Lyric Hammersmith until 12 March 2022.

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REVIEW ROUND-UP: The Forest at Hampstead Theatre

In Features, London theatre, News, Opinion, Other Recent Articles, Plays, Reviews by Emma Clarendon1st March 2022Leave a Comment

On LoveLondonLoveCulture, Emma Clarendon rounds up the reviews for the world premiere of Florian Zeller’s new play The Forest, directed by Jonathan Kent and starring Toby Stephens at London’s Hampstead Theatre.

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REVIEW ROUND-UP: The Chairs at the Almeida Theatre

In Features, London theatre, Opinion, Other Recent Articles, Plays, Reviews by Emma Clarendon27th February 2022Leave a Comment

Emma Clarendon rounds up the reviews for Omar Elerian’s revival of Eugène Ionesco’s absurdist comedy The Chairs. Real-life husband and wife Marcello Magni and Kathryn Hunter star.

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‘Places the classic boy-meets-girl-but-can’t-have-her template in a new location’: BROKEN WINGS – Charing Cross Theatre

In Features, London theatre, Musicals, Opinion, Other Recent Articles, Plays, Reviews by Maryam Philpott26th February 2022Leave a Comment

In Nadim Naaman and Dana Al Fardan’s new musical Broken Wings, there are plenty of soaring melodies for lovers and just as many haunted and broken-hearted ballads for the less romantic.

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‘London is a character of its own in the play’: Jamie O’Neill on the premiere of Volcano

In Featured Shows, Features, Interviews, London theatre, Native, Plays by Featured Content25th February 2022

Jamie O’Neill stars in Proforca Theatre’s Volcano, co-written by James Lewis and Georgie Bailey, which premieres at London’s Lion & Unicorn Theatre from 8 to 12 March 2022. He took a break from rehearsals to tell us more about it.

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FEATURED SHOW: Debs Newbold’s ★★★★★ Lost in Blue is ‘as hilarious as it is poignant’. Reviews are in!

In Featured Shows, Features, Festivals, London theatre, Native, Photos, Plays, Reviews, Video by Featured Content24th February 2022

Debs Newbold’s Offies-nominated, one-woman Lost in Blue is “a gripping story… as hilarious as it is poignant”, says Broadway Baby. We’ve rounded up highlights from the show’s raft of other five- and four-star reviews. Just a handful of chances left to see the show at London’s Lion & Unicorn Theatre, where it must end this Saturday 26 February 2022.

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VIDEO: Remember how hard it was being 13? Instructions for a Teenage Armageddon post-show Q&A

In Featured Shows, Features, Interviews, London theatre, Native, Plays, Video by Terri Paddock23rd February 2022Leave a Comment

Rosie Day’s wonderful rollercoaster ride of a debut play Instructions for a Teenage Armageddon, which she also performs, ends with the by-then 16-year-old protagonist writing a letter of advice to her younger self (and younger stepsister).

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‘This is a musical with its heart in the right place’: BROKEN WINGS – Charing Cross Theatre ★★★★

In Features, London theatre, Musicals, Opinion, Other Recent Articles, Reviews by Emma Clarendon21st February 2022Leave a Comment

Featuring a luscious score and heartfelt performances, Broken Wings gets a chance to soar in this touching if occasionally overblown production.

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Diary of a Theatre Addict returning to New York: 9 shows in 7 nights

In Broadway, Features, Musicals, Opinion, Other Recent Articles, Plays by Mark Shenton20th February 2022Leave a Comment

Regular readers will know that my name is Mark and I’m an addict — a theatre addict — and much else; if you have an addictive personality, you addict to anything that makes you feel different — sex, sugar, coffee, and in my case, theatre, too.

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Is The Merchant of Venice an anti-semitic play or a play about anti-semitism?

In Features, London theatre, Opinion, Other Recent Articles by Susan Elkin19th February 2022Leave a Comment

We think that The Merchant of Venice was written between 1596 and 1599 – in the twilight years of Elizabeth’s reign. It was printed in 1600 and so had, one assumes, already been performed by then.

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PHOTOS: Debs Newbold is in full storytelling action in one-woman play Lost in Blue

In Featured Shows, Features, Festivals, London theatre, Native, Photos, Plays, Video by Featured Content17th February 2022

Debs Newbold officially opens to press tonight (17 February 2022) at London’s Lion & Unicorn Theatre in her acclaimed one-woman show Lost in Blue, running for a limited season until 26 February 2022. Have a look at our bumper gallery of brand-new production photos, which really capture the dynamism of Debs’ storytelling. Time to get booking!

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On Broadway: Hotfooting from Six to Marlow & Moss in cabaret at 54 Below

In Broadway, Cabaret, Features, London theatre, Musicals, Opinion, Other Recent Articles by Mark Shenton16th February 2022Leave a Comment

I finally caught SIX’s Broadway incarnation. And I made a night of it: since the show runs for just 70 minutes, I was able to hotfoot it after to see Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss, its co-authors and creators, in a cabaret at 54 Below.

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REVIEW ROUND-UP: Hamlet at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse

In Features, London theatre, Opinion, Other Recent Articles, Plays, Reviews by Emma Clarendon14th February 2022Leave a Comment

On LoveLondonLoveCulture, Emma Clarendon rounds up the reviews for Hamlet, the first indoor production of Shakespeare’s play at Shakespeare’s Globe, now running in the candlelit Sam Wanamaker Playhouse until 9 April 2022.

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‘This is a story about hope’: WATCH the trailer for Debs Newbold’s ‘astounding’ Lost in Blue

In Featured Shows, Features, Festivals, London theatre, Native, Plays, Video by Featured Content11th February 2022

We’re counting down to the London transfer of Debs Newbold’s acclaimed one-woman show Lost in Blue, which runs at the Lion & Unicorn Theatre from 15 to 26 February 2022. The evocative trailer shows how storytelling, live music and sound technology blend together to brilliant effect.

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REVIEW ROUND-UP: A Number at the Old Vic Theatre

In Features, London theatre, Opinion, Other Recent Articles, Plays, Reviews by Emma Clarendon8th February 2022Leave a Comment

On LoveLondonLoveCulture, Emma Clarendon rounds up the reviews for the latest revival of Caryl Churchill’s two-hander A Number, now starring Lennie James at Paapa Essiedu at the Old Vic Theatre until 19 March 2022.

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