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Woyzeck leads May’s Top 10 new London shows

Posted on May 2, 2017 by mkmswain

From new takes on Brecht and Büchner to Jez Butterworth’s latest and a classic musical. Read my full BroadwayWorld article here

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Angels in America leads April’s Top 10 new London shows

Posted on April 5, 2017 by mkmswain

From a mammoth Tony Kushner revival to an unusual Romeo and Juliet and tap-happy musical. Read my full BroadwayWorld article here

Posted in Journalism, Theatre | Tagged 42nd Street, andrew garfield, angels in america, april, barbican, best, book tickets, broadwayworld, bush theatre, city of glass, comedy, consent, damian lewis, duncan sheik, globe, guards at the taj, jude law, lily cole, london, lyric hammersmith, matt berry, musical, national theatre, obsession, picks, rape, romeo and juliet, shakespeare, sheena easton, simon bird, the goat or who is sylvia, the other palace, the philanthropist, theatre, top 10, west end, whisper house | Leave a comment

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? leads February’s Top 10 new London shows

Posted on February 1, 2017 by mkmswain

From a major Albee revival to starry Shakespeare and a steamy musical. Read my full BroadwayWorld article here

Posted in Journalism, Theatre | Tagged A Midsummer Night's Dream, almeida theatre, andrew scott, apollo theatre, best, book tickets, broadwayworld, conleth hill, Edward Albee, february, frances ruffelle, game of thrones, gary barlow, hamlet, imelda staunton, john webster, london, low level panic, musical, national theatre, new, orange tree theatre, phoenix theatre, shakespeares globe, speech and debate, Stoppard, tamsin grieg, the girls, the other palace, the white devil, the wild party, theatre, tom hollander, top 10, trafalgar studios, travesties, Twelfth Night, west end, whos afraid of virginia woolf, young vic | Leave a comment

The Glass Menagerie leads January’s Top 10 new London shows

Posted on December 22, 2016 by mkmswain

From a visionary Tennessee Williams revival to Wayne McGregor and a Dahl musical adaptation. Read my full BroadwayWorld article here

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DREAMGIRLS Leads December’s Top 10 new London shows

Posted on November 30, 2016 by mkmswain

From a big musical revival to starry panto, Ibsen and Matthew Bourne’s latest. Read my full BroadwayWorld article here

Posted in Journalism, Theatre | Tagged amber riley, best, book tickets, broadwayworld, dreamgirls, hedda gabler, london, musical, national theatre, new, pantomime, play, ruth wilson, savoy theatre, theatre, top 10, west end | Leave a comment

David Bowie’s LAZARUS leads November’s Top 10 new London shows

Posted on November 3, 2016 by mkmswain

From the late great Bowie’s musical to Glenda Jackson’s Lear and Mark Rylance’s return. Read my full BroadwayWorld article here

Posted in Journalism, Theatre | Tagged amy madigan, an inspector calls, andrew lloyd webber, best, book tickets, broadwayworld, buried child, david bowie, ed harris, first world war, garrick theatre, glenda jackson, half a sixpence, harriet walter, it is easy to be dead, jb priestley, king lear, lazarus, london, mark rylance, michael c hall, musical, neil mcpherson, nice fish, november, old vic, phyllida lloyd, playhouse theatre, poet, school of rock, shakespeare, stephen daldry, the tempest, theatre, this house, top 10, west end | Leave a comment

Amadeus leads October’s Top 10 new London shows

Posted on October 1, 2016 by mkmswain

From Shaffer and Stoppard revivals to new musicals and Tony Kushner’s latest. Read my full BroadwayWorld article here

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Maybe It’s Because I’m A Londoner

Posted on September 12, 2016 by mkmswain

Daredevil Chelsea Pensioner Charmaine “Bimbo” Coleman shares her capital experience. Read my full Discover Britain article here

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Top 10 Plays Set In School

Posted on September 7, 2016 by mkmswain

Education, education, education – it’s an inescapable topic in theatre. Recent years have seen Future Conditional (kicking off Matthew Warchus’s Old Vic tenure), Matilda the Musical, The Brink, Kin, Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour, and, of course, Harry Potter and … Continue reading →

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Pick of the Week

Posted on September 1, 2016 by mkmswain

Poldark, Woody Allen, Proms pleasures and Blackpool illuminations. Read my full theartsdesk newsletter here

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Woyzeck leads May’s Top 10 new London shows

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? leads February’s Top 10 new London shows

The Glass Menagerie leads January’s Top 10 new London shows

DREAMGIRLS Leads December’s Top 10 new London shows

David Bowie’s LAZARUS leads November’s Top 10 new London shows

Amadeus leads October’s Top 10 new London shows

Maybe It’s Because I’m A Londoner

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