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The Real Inspector Hound, Lockdown Theatre Online
Critics generally have a bad time of it in drama. Think of the poisonous Tabitha Dickinson in Birdman, the manipulative Addison DeWitt in All About Eve, or the aptly named Anton Ego in Ratatouille. Read my The i Paper review
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Tagged derek jacobi, emilia clarke, freddie fox, jennifer saunders, live stream, live streaming, lockdown theatre, online, play, reading, review, robert lindsay, samantha bond, sanjeev bhaskar, simon callow, streaming, the i paper, The Real Inspector Hound, theatre, zoom
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Private Lives, Zoom
Back in June, Lockdown Theatre raised £35,000 for the Royal Theatrical Fund with A Bit of Waiting for Godot, starring RTF president Robert Lindsay, Michael Palin and Joanna Lumley. Their second outing, on Sunday, was Act I of Noël Coward’s … Continue reading
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Tagged comedy, emilia clarke, emma thompson, game of thrones, jonathan church, lockdown theatre, noel coward, play, private lives, review, robert lindsay, sanjeev bhaskar, the i paper, theatre, zoom
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BroadwayWorld’s Top London Christmas Picks
There are plenty of seasonal treats served up in the capital this year, from pantos and plays to opera and dance. Here are some of the tastiest morsels for the 2018-19 festive period. Read my full BroadwayWorld article here
Posted in Dance, Journalism, Theatre
Tagged a christmas carol, al murray, aladdin, alexandra palace, best, bill bailey, book tickets, broadwayworld, can't wait for christmas, cheap tickets, children, christmas, dani dyer, danny dyer, dawn french, dick whittington, english national ballet, eventim apollo, family, hansel and gretel, horrible christmas, horrible histories, huddle, hugh dennis, in the winter wood, jo brand, kids, kinky boots, les miserables, london, lyric hammersmith, lyric theatre, magic mike live, matilda, matthew bourne, motown, national theatre, nativity the musical, old vic, opera, orange tree theatre, palladium snow white, panto, pantomime, paul merton, peacock theatre, peter pan, philip pullmans grimm tales, polka theatre, richmond theatre, robert lindsay, room on the broom, rose theatre kingston, royal opera, sadlers wells, school of rock, seussical, sleeping beauty, southbank centre, southwark playhouse, swan lake, the lion king, the messiah, the nutcracker, the other palace, the phantom of the opera, the snowman, the tell tale heart, theatre, theatre royal stratford east, ticket deal, tina, top, unicorn theatre, west end, wicked, young audience
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Strictly Speaking: Week 11
We love a good Strictly scandal. In a year sadly devoid of both romantic chemistry between partners (no CURSE OF STRICTLY break-ups on the horizon) and genuine drama, the producers finally managed to manufacture some of the latter in an otherwise … Continue reading
Posted in Dance, Journalism, TV
Tagged alex salmond, american smooth, argentine tango, ballroom, bbc, caroline flack, celebrity, cha cha cha, competition, dance, dance today, dancesport, dancing, dirty rotten scoundrels, flashdance, hollywood, journey, leaderboard, leg action, len goodman, london, magazine, mark wright, olly murs, onerepublic, pixie lott, review, robert lindsay, scd, simon cowell, simon webbe, strictly, strictly come dancing, tv, underdog, waltz, waltz a thon, waltzathon, west side story
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Razzle-dazzle treatment leaves smile on your face
Yet another classic film-turned-musical hits the West End with the arrival of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, but unlike recent turkey Fatal Attraction, this story of conmen peddling tall tales to heiresses in a fantasy French Riviera is ripe for the razzle-dazzle … Continue reading
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Tagged adaptation, cole porter, dance, dirty rotten scoundrels, fatal attraction, film, fred and ginger, fred astaire, ginger rogers, guys and dolls, ham & high, jerry mitchell, london, mgm, movie, musical, noel coward, Oklahoma, play, review, robert lindsay, rufus hound, samantha bond, savoy, song, steve martin, the producers, theatre, west end
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