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‘Emotional & uplifting production’: TORCH SONG – Turbine Theatre ★★★★

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Fairy Powered Productions9th September 2019Leave a Comment

The Turbine Theatre opens with an assured revival of Harvey Fierstein’s Torch Song. This is the revised 2017 version, packing the original trilogy of plays into just over two and a half hours.

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NEWS: Paul Taylor-Mills will lead the new Turbine Theatre at Battersea Power Station

In London theatre, Native, News, Plays, Press Releases, Quotes, Sticky by Press Releases8th July 2019

Presented by Bill Kenwright and founded and led by artistic director Paul Taylor-Mills, the Turbine Theatre is a brand new theatre on the banks of the Thames next to the iconic Battersea Power Station.

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Debbie’s favourite male performances of 2018

In Features, London theatre, Musicals, Opinion, Plays, Regional theatre, Reviews, Ticket recommendations by Debbie Gilpin29th December 2018Leave a Comment

Mind the Blog rounds up her favourite male performances in the theatre during 2018.

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‘There’s not a weak link here’: SUMMER & SMOKE – West End

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews, Ticket recommendations by Ian Foster30th November 2018Leave a Comment

Rebecca Frecknall’s production of Summer & Smoke has lost none of its charge, mainly through retaining the electric chemistry between its leads – an exceptional Patsy Ferran as Alma and Matthew Needham as John.

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‘Shows exactly why we need more women directing in London theatre’: SUMMER & SMOKE – West End

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews, Ticket recommendations by Rachel Williams22nd November 2018Leave a Comment

Summer & Smoke, the latest Almeida Theatre West End transfer, is the first thing I’ve experienced in a while where the theatre audience is really, properly engaged in a play. It’s like you could literally hear a pin drop.

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‘Entertaining enough’: COCK – Chichester Festival Theatre

In Opinion, Plays, Regional theatre, Reviews by Rachel Williams12th October 2018Leave a Comment

Cock is by no means classic Mike Bartlett but it is still great fun and, for connoisseurs of supreme social awkwardness in particular, a decently entertaining hour and a half.

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‘Visceral, electrifying & still provocative’: COCK – Chichester Festival Theatre ★★★★★

In Opinion, Plays, Regional theatre, Reviews by Anne Cox5th October 2018Leave a Comment

I was enthralled by this fiery revival of Cock which may have lost its initial shock value in the intervening, increasingly liberated, years, but is still capable of being moving, comical and daring thanks to Bartlett’s blistering dialogue.

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NEWS: Almeida production of Tennessee Williams’ Summer & Smoke transfers to the West End in November

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

Following a sold-out run at the Almeida Theatre, Tennessee Williams’ rarely staged classic Summer and Smoke will have a limited West End run from 10 November 2018 to 19 January 2019 at the Duke Of York’s Theatre, with press night on 20 November.

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‘Fresh, revolutionary and utterly new’: SUMMER & SMOKE – Almeida Theatre

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Victoria Sadler19th March 2018Leave a Comment

Summer & Smoke is a production where the rich talents of all its creatives have come together to take something old and transform it into something fresh, revolutionary and utterly new without once betraying the essence of and truth in Williams’s script.

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‘Surely a West End transfer is on the cards?’: SUMMER & SMOKE – Almeida Theatre

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Anne Cox18th March 2018Leave a Comment

Summer & Smoke sizzles with repression. Lyrical, scintillating and stormy, it’s a show not to miss.

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‘Engages our empathy with sensitivity & subtle wit’: SUMMER & SMOKE – Almeida Theatre ★★★★

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Michael Davis15th March 2018Leave a Comment

Tennessee Williams’ Summer & Smoke is undergoing a revival at the Almeida Theatre and makes for an interesting comparison with the playwright’s other mature work.

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‘A glorious adaptation’: SUMMER & SMOKE – Almeida Theatre

In London theatre, Opinion, Reviews by Maryam Philpott13th March 2018Leave a Comment

The business of Summer & Smoke at the Almeida Theatre is handled with such subtly that it allows the deep emotional connection at the heart of the story to flourish. With a magnetic central pairing, Rebecca Frecknall’s production is unmissably beautiful, and the Almeida at its finest.

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‘The beauty shines through’: SUMMER & SMOKE – Almeida Theatre ★★★★

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Libby Purves9th March 2018Leave a Comment

Nothing is wasted, no irony or brief sad laugh unmarked in Summer & Smoke at the Almeida. At times the self-conscious staging irritated me, a little, but the beauty shone through, and honour to Rebecca Frecknall for championing this gorgeous, gentle play.

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Mind the Blog’s top 2017 performances

In London theatre, Musicals, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Debbie Gilpin3rd January 2018Leave a Comment

This year variety has been the thing (though I’ve still managed to stack up certain repeat attendances), so that means I’ve seen a serious amount of performers – some even two or three times!

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‘Star-sprinkled, retro-TV-set influenced design’: THE TWILIGHT ZONE – Almeida Theatre

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Ian Foster29th December 2017Leave a Comment

Anne Washburn (she of the extraordinary Mr Burns) has fashioned this play out of eight of the stories told by The Twilight Zone and presents them as if shuffling a pack of cards.

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NEWS: Full cast announced for Globe’s Much Ado set in revolutionary Mexico

In London theatre, Native, News, Plays, Press Releases by Press Releases2nd June 2017Leave a Comment

Beatriz Romilly and Matthew Needham star as Beatrice and Benedick in Matthew Dunster’s new production of Much Ado About Nothing at Shakespeare’s Globe.

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THE TREATMENT – Almeida Theatre

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Aleks Sierz1st May 2017Leave a Comment

The Treatment has often been ignored, perhaps on account of its large cast, or because of its large scale. Now that the Almeida Theatre has decided to stage this story of how art cannibalises life we have the chance to judge its relevance some 25 years after its premiere.

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NEWS: Julian Ovenden & Indira Varma join cast of Crimp’s The Treatment

In London theatre, Native, News, Plays, Press Releases by Press Releases24th February 2017Leave a Comment

The Almeida Theatre today announced the full cast of The Treatment, Martin Crimp’s new play, which runs from 24 April 2017 to 10 June 2017, with a press night on 24 April.

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NEWS: Almeida spring includes political premieres by Martin Crimp, James Graham & Christopher Shinn

In London theatre, Native, News, Plays, Press Releases, Quotes, Sticky by Press Releases20th January 2017Leave a Comment

The Almeida Theatre announces a new season and a major new digital film project exploring leadership in crisis and the power of words. Premieres of plays by Martin Crimp, Christopher Shinn and James Graham.

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NEWS: Shakespeare’s Globe announces full cast for Imogen

In London theatre, News, Plays, Press Releases by Emma Clarendon9th August 2016Leave a Comment

Shakespeare’s Globe has confirmed the full cast for Matthew Dunster’s production, running from 17 September until 16 October 2016.

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