A bad week for lifts, and Dan Walker’s unlikely journey finally comes to an end.
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A teenage boy adrift at sea for 227 days with only a Royal Bengal tiger for company? Yann Martel’s Booker Prize-winning philosophical novel Life of Pi is the ultimate adaptation challenge.
Sergei Polunin finds his redemption, but Alina Cojocaru’s the star in this new production.
Can you believe it’s nearly the quarter-finals already? Dan Walker is still here, so I certainly can’t.
Tilly Ramsay is scuppered by the samba, plunging from the top to the bottom of the leaderboard.
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The traditional curtain-raiser for theatre’s festive season sacrifices pantomime silliness for painful political gags.
It’s a crying shame that we don’t have more showcase roles in musical theatre for blazing talent like soul queen Beverley Knight, and if nothing else, this new show supplies one.
TS Eliot’s dense, sprawling, four-poem cycle exploring time, faith, mortality, history, love, and everything in between doesn’t exactly scream commercial theatre.
Matthew Warchus’s Dickensian charmer is back at the Old Vic for a fifth year.
Moira Buffini’s state-of-the-nation play is pegged to that irresistible trope: the dark and stormy night, with a group of strangers forced to seek shelter in a spooky manor house.
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