★★ TITUS ANDRONICUS, SAM WANAMAKER PLAYHOUSE Gory play full of murders played with neither gore nor murders Tricksy staging distracts and disappoints If All's Well That…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 03:26AM[SHARE]★★★★ NOISES OFF, PHOENIX THEATRE Michael Frayn's farce about a farce still jars the funny bone Sure it's overly familiar, but, 40 years on, the laughs keep coming …
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 03:04AM[SHARE]★★★★ ALLEGIANCE, CHARING CROSS THEATRE Beautifully sung show shines light into a dark corner of American history  Star Trek's Mr Sulu honours fellow Japanes…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:31AM[SHARE]★★★★ A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE, ALMEIDA THEATRE Torment, toxicity and trauma in New Orleans  Torment, toxicity and trauma in New Orleans It's a long way fr…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:20AM[SHARE]★★★★ WATCH ON THE RHINE, DONMAR Country house comedy transforms into call to arms In wartime, when tough actions are needed to back up easy words, what do you do? …
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:15AM[SHARE]★★★ DOLLY PARTON'S SMOKY MOUNTAIN CHRISTMAS CAROL, SOUTHBANK CENTRE Great songs, but a sanitised book declaws Yuletide parable Dolly and Dickens team up for dreams a…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 04:42AM[SHARE]Victoria Hamilton-Barritt brings superstar quality and emotional depth to villainous ogre Hovering way, way above us, three aptly named high fairies, in voluminous chiffon, open a show that …
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 08:06AM[SHARE]★★★★ ELF, DOMINION THEATRE Plenty of presents for all the family in a spectacular show based on the much loved film Buddy the Elf charms everyone on either sid…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:36AM[SHARE]★★★★ A CHRISTMAS CAROL, RSC Old favourite finds contemporary relevance in sanitised staging The RSC Christmas show delivers exactly what it promises Life is full o…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 11:24AM[SHARE]★ HERE, Southwark Playhouse Characters drown in a surfeit of issues The prestige of the Papatango Prize cannot rescue a play that fails to transcend its inexplicable limitations The k…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:54AM[SHARE]Super songs can't quite rescue an ill-focused story and sparse staging Whorehouses, gay prostitution and suicide " you can see why James Jones' bestselling 1951 novel was bowdlerised by the …
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 08:06AM[SHARE]★★★★ TAMMY FAYE, ALMEIDA THEATRE The rise and fall of a iconic figure whose reach stretched across late 20th century American culture Plenty of heart and bite in a…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 12:03PM[SHARE]★★ THE CAUCASIAN CHALK CIRCLE, ROSE THEATRE Uncompromising adaptation of Brecht outstays its welcome Carrie Hope Fletcher one of few bright sparks on a tough evening for the audi…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 08:37AM[SHARE]★★★ IPHIGENIA IN SPLOTT, LYRIC HAMMERSMITH THEATRE Howl of protest at the cost of austerity leads to a different conclusion seven years on Timely revival of Gary Owen's sol…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 08:37AM[SHARE]★★★★ THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF DISSOCIA, THEATRE ROYAL STRATFORD EAST The landscape of mental health explored in surreal comedy A woman confronts her neuroses in a ph…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 09:43AM[SHARE]★★★ CLUTCH Odd couple in a Corsa drive in fourth gear for comedy but second gear for pathos After a strong start, newly commissioned play takes a wrong exit from the rounda…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:07AM[SHARE]Funny, poignant and stimulating, a delightfully welcome piece of intellectual escapism It can't have been an easy pitch. "Popes. Both foreign, yes. German and Argentinian " sorry, can't cha…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:33AM[SHARE]★★★★ RIDE New musical about a difficult, charismatic, barrier-breaking woman freewheels into the West End New musical about a barrier-breaking woman freewhe…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:07AM[SHARE]★★★★★  INTO THE WOODS Breathtaking production captures the unease at the heart of this fairytale musical Prepare to be dazzled and disoriented in a phanta…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:24AM[SHARE]★★★  TREASON THE MUSICAL IN CONCERT Semi-staged production shows promise - and problems Semi-staged production shows promise - and problems A semi-staged concert perform…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 08:25AM[SHARE]Leave memories of Paul Daniels at the door and embrace the sweet deception inside There's nothing quite like magic, live, up close and personal. Sure there are the TV spectaculars, the casin…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 08:07AM[SHARE]If you think a fat man wearing yellow swimming trunks is funny, you're on the right island Alexei Sayle, in his angry young man phase, once said that you can always tell when you're watching…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:42AM[SHARE]★ TASTING NOTES New musical set in a wine bar should have stayed in the cellar Not much goes right for a show whose characters are similarly ill-fated LJ's dream has come tr…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 10:18AM[SHARE]★★★★ SISTER ACT THE MUSICAL Event theatre and a sensational lead performance make the trip worthwhile Crowdpleasing musical retains its glitz and charm (and cheese…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 10:03AM[SHARE]★★★ THE DARKEST PART OF THE NIGHT, KILN Issues-led drama has its heart in the right place The didactic vies with the dramatic in Zodwa Nyoni's incident-packed new play Mu…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 01:33AM[SHARE]★★★★CLOSER, LYRIC HAMMERSMITH Still sordid and sexy 25 years on Lovers come together, split apart and come together again Drama is writing in thin air, its content i…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 11:12AM[SHARE]Fine acting and bleak humour barely ameliorates a grim slog through a broken relationship Rebecca Lenkiewicz's adaptation of August Strindberg's 1900 paean to the power of loathing over lovi…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 04:12PM[SHARE]Claudia Rankine's 2018 play insists on raising difficult questions Art and race intersect to provocative effect We're in New York City, in an upscale loft apartment, with that absence of…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:18AM[SHARE]A classic play can still collapse time and space with its heartrending relevance The stage is cluttered with objects; a pianola sits stage left; a large cabinet, soon to be revealed as a di…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 08:18AM[SHARE]Â Marina Carr's angry, poetic take on Clytemnestra's story is delivered in all its gory glory Playwrights return to classical myths for two main reasons " to shine a light on how we live …
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 10:06AM[SHARE]★★★★ GREASE, Dominion Theatre Nostalgia for the late 1950s and late 1970s underpins an entertaining show Crowdpleaser pleases crowd: this High School musical deliv…
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