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Girl from the North Country, Old Vic
Defiantly rejecting the standard jukebox model, Conor McPherson’s much-anticipated new work mining the back catalogue of Bob Dylan is labelled “a play with songs” – or perhaps that should be a play and songs, with two distinct forms of storytelling weaving around … Continue reading
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Tagged 1930s, america, bob dylan, broadwayworld, bronagh gallagher, ciaran hinds, conor mcpherson, drama, duluth, forever young, girl from the north country, great depression, like a rolling stone, minnesota, music, musical, old vic, play, review, ron cook, shirley henderson, singing, song
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BWW Interview: Bronagh Gallagher
The actress and musician talks Conor McPherson’s new Bob Dylan-infused play Girl from the North Country. Read my full BroadwayWorld interview here
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Tagged actress, america, bob dylan, broadwayworld, bronagh gallagher, conor mcpherson, drama, girl from the north country, interview, london, minnesota, music, old vic, play, singer, singing, theatre
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Woyzeck leads May’s Top 10 new London shows
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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Tagged best, book tickets, brecht, comedy, danny mac, donmar warehouse, duke of yorks theatre, felicity kendal, hampstead theatre, hitler, jack thorne, jez butterworth, joe wright, john boyega, lee hall, lenny henry, lettice and lovage, life of galileo, london, maureen lipman, may, menier chocolate factory, musical, national theatre, occupational hazards, old vic, on the town, our ladies of perpetual succour, play, regents park, royal court, salome, sam mendes, star wars, the ferryman, the resistible rise of arturo ui, theatre, ticket deal, top 10, trevor nunn, trump, west end, woyzeck, young vic
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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Old Vic
Fifty years on, Tom Stoppard’s absurdist tragicomedy is back in the theatre where it had its professional premiere, and still just as dazzlingly virtuosic. If some of its gags, musings and metatheatrical tricks have since become overfamiliar through imitation, that’s … Continue reading
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Tagged broadwayworld, daniel radcliffe, hamlet, joshua mcguire, london, old vic, review, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, shakespeare, theatre, tom stoppard
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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead leads March’s Top 10 new London shows
From starry Stoppard and Marber revivals to toe-tapping musicals and Elena Ferrante on stage. Read my full BroadwayWorld article here
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Tagged amanda holden, an american in paris, arts theatre, ballet, book tickets, brexit, broadwayworld, dance, dancing, daniel radcliffe, david tennant, dominion theatre, don juan in soho, elena ferrante, garrick theatre, ian hislop, kate fleetwood, lee mead, london, lyric hammersmith, march, my brilliant friend, my country, national theare, old vic, rose theatre kingston, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, seventeen, stepping out, tap, the miser, the wipers times, theatre, tom stoppard, top 10, ugly lies the bone, vaudeville theatre, west end, wyndhams theatre
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David Bowie’s LAZARUS leads November’s Top 10 new London shows
From the late great Bowie’s musical to Glenda Jackson’s Lear and Mark Rylance’s return. Read my full BroadwayWorld article here
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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
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Sensational staging is a creative triumph
If the Matilda team felt pressure to repeat their success – and live up to Harold Ramis’s beloved Bill Murray-starring film – there’s no sign of it in this sensational adaptation of Groundhog Day, easily the best new home-grown musical of recent times. Read my full Islington Gazette review
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Tagged andy karl, bill murray, carlyss peer, danny rubin, groundhog day, harold ramis, islington gazette, matilda, matthew warchus, musical, old vic, peter darling, review, tim minchin
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Groundhog Day, Old Vic
It’s déjà vu all over again, as the Matilda dream team reconvenes to bring the beloved Bill Murray-starring 1993 movie to stage. Serious expectations, then, but you wouldn’t know it from this fearless, fleet-footed and impressively cohesive show – destined … Continue reading
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Tagged andy karl, bill murray, broadway, broadywayworld, carlyss peer, danny rubin, film, groundhog day, harold ramis, matthew warchus, movie, musical, old vic, peter darling, review, stage, theatre, tim minchin, west end
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Groundhog Day Leads August’s Top 10 New London Shows
From Tim Minchin’s latest musical adaptation and Shakespeare in a department store to a highly anticipated Branagh performance. Read my full BroadwayWorld article here
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Tagged 946, allegro, almeida theatre, ambassadors theatre, august, best, billie piper, broadwayworld, children, family, found111, garrick theatre, groundhog day, kenneth branagh, kids, kneehigh, lee hall, london, matthew lewis, michael morpurgo, much ado about nothing, musical, national theatre, old vic, our ladies of perpetual succour, rodgers and hammerstein, selfridges, shakespeare, shakespeares globe, southwark playhouse, summer, the entertainer, the secret garden, they drink it in the congo, thom southerland, tim minchin, top 10, unfaithful, west end, yerma, young vic
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