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‘A landmark play for the ages’: THE INHERITANCE – West End

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Simon Parris7th January 2019Leave a Comment

Sweeping in scope, yet intimate and highly personal in detail, Matthew Lopez’s masterwork The Inheritance balances humour, history and heartbreak to haunting effect.

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‘Rightly lauded as a major piece of 21st-century theatre’: THE INHERITANCE – West End ★★★★

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Jonathan Baz19th October 2018Leave a Comment

The Inheritance at the Noel Coward Theatre has been rightly lauded as a major piece of 21st-century theatre and Lopez has a gift for crafting argument and dialogue with sensitivity and innate understanding.

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‘May have redefined the gay writing genre for a new generation’: THE INHERITANCE – West End ★★★★★

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Johnny Fox17th October 2018Leave a Comment

It would be hard to imagine a play about young gay lives that speaks more eloquently to older gay men than the moving, informative and often hilarious The Inheritance now transferred to the Noel Coward Theatre.

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‘Truly soul-enhancing, life-enrichening thing’: THE INHERITANCE – Noel Coward Theatre

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Ian Foster16th October 2018Leave a Comment

After a scorching run at the Young Vic, Matthew Lopez’s The Inheritance makes a well-deserved transfer into the West End.

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‘One of the most moving & beautifully written shows that I’ve seen’: THE INHERITANCE – West End ★★★★★

In Features, Interviews, London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Regional theatre, Reviews, Touring by Anne Cox15th October 2018Leave a Comment

The West End transfer of Matthew Lopez’s modern masterpiece The Inheritance, nearly seven hours of epic storytelling, is a phenomenal play which sold out when it first opened at London’s Young Vic earlier this year.

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NEWS: Cast is confirmed for West End transfer of Matthew Lopez’s The Inheritance

In London theatre, Native, News, Plays, Press Releases by Press Releases21st August 2018Leave a Comment

Full casting has been announced for the highly-anticipated West End transfer of the Young Vic production of The Inheritance, the new play by Matthew Lopez which will run for a strictly limited season, previewing at the Noël Coward Theatre from 21 September 2018 and opening on 13 October.

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NEWS: Young Vic’s The Inheritance transfers to Noel Coward Theatre in September

In London theatre, Native, News, Plays, Press Releases, Sticky by Press Releases16th May 2018Leave a Comment

Directed by multi Olivier Award winner Stephen Daldry, the Young Vic production of The Inheritance by Matthew Lopez will transfer to the West End, playing a limited season at the Nöel Coward Theatre from 21 September 2018 (opening on 13 October).

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‘May have redefined the gay writing genre for a new generation’: THE INHERITANCE – Young Vic ★★★★★

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Johnny Fox31st March 2018Leave a Comment

It would be hard to imagine a play about young gay lives that speaks more eloquently to older gay men than the moving, informative and often hilarious The Inheritance at the Young Vic.

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‘A brave and epic piece of new writing’: THE INHERITANCE – Young Vic

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Ian Foster30th March 2018Leave a Comment

The Inheritance is a brave and epic piece of new writing from Matthew Lopez, taking a scalpel to contemporary gay life in New York, asking what does it mean to be a gay man today and just how much of that is owed to an inherited (and neglected) cultural legacy.

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NEWS: Vanessa Redgrave, Kyle Soller & full cast announced for The Inheritance premiere

In London theatre, Native, News, Plays, Press Releases, Sticky by Press Releases11th January 2018Leave a Comment

The Young Vic has announced casting, including – in the sole female role – Vanessa Redgrave, for the major world premiere of Matthew Lopez’s The Inheritance, which is directed by Stephen Daldry and runs 2 March to 19 May 2018, with a press day on 28 March.

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