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Aspects of Love review: A slick and sumptuous meditation on passion

Triumphant revival of Lloyd Webber musical sees Michael Ball return... but in a different role

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Aspects of Love, , Music - Andrew Lloyd Webber, lyrics- Don Black and Charles Hart, based on the novel by David Garnett, directed by Jonathan Kent, Lyric Theatre, 2023, Credit: Johan Persson/

Once on this Island reivew: Scored fairy tale told in the Caribbean tradition

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Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May gives her keynote address on the fourth and final day of the Conservative Party Conference 2018 at the International Convention Centre in Birmingham, central England, on October 3, 2018. (Photo by Oli SCARFF / AFP) (Photo by OLI SCARFF/AFP via Getty Images)

Politics: A Survivor’s Guide review: Is Britain sleepwalking into populism?

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Hapless TV Review - Curb Your Enthusiasm returns to Finchley

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August in England review: Fiery lament of a Windrush deportee

Lenny Henry excels in monologue featuring a 50-something grocer who arrived in England from Jamaica in 1962 but decades later is forced to leave

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May 12, 2023 13:07

Lenny Henry in August In England by Lenny Henry @ Bush Theatre (Opening 04-05-2023) ©Tristram Kenton 05-23 (3 Raveley Street, LONDON NW5 2HX TEL 0207 267 5550 Mob 07973 617 355)email: tristram@tristramkenton.com

Theatre review: Retrograde - A dilemma for Sidney Poitier

Hot playwright Ryan Calais-Cameron's latest drama focuses on what went down when America’s first African American Oscar winner was on the cusp of fame

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April 28, 2023 12:40

Theatre review: Retrograde - A dilemma for Sidney Poitier

Theatre review: Ain't Too Proud - Temptations reign supreme

Joyfully told story of Motown band in musical packed with brilliantly performed songs won't disappoint fans

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April 20, 2023 10:43

AINT TOO PROUD, BOOK BY DOMINIQUE MORISSEAU, MUSIC AND LYRICS FROM THE LEGENDARY MOTOWN CATALOG, BASED ON THE BOOK ENTITLED THE TEMPTATIONS BY OTIS WILLIAMS WITH PATRICIA ROMANOWSKI, MUSIC BY ARRANGEMENT WITH SONY/ATV MUSIC PUBLISHING,DIRECTED BY DES MCANUFF, CHOREOGRAPHED BY SERGIO TRUJILLO, SCENIC DESIGN ROBERT BRILL, COSTUME DESIGN PAUL TAZEWELL, LIGHTING DESIGN HOWELL BINKLEY, SOUND DESIGN STEVE CANYON KENNEDY, PRODUCTION DESIGN PETER NIGRINI, PRINCE EDWARD THEATRE, 2023, Credit Johan Persson/

Theatre review: Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead - the hunted's revenge

Poland’s Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk's eco-thriller is brought to brilliant life in Simon McBurney's production

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April 14, 2023 11:21

Theatre review: Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead - the hunted's revenge

Theatre review: A Little Life - Unbearable pain among NYC’s beautiful people

Current preoccupation with use of terms such as abuse and trauma to describe behaviours that are merely insensitive is ruthlessly exposed in adaptation of Hanya Yanagihara’s novel

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April 5, 2023 13:34

Theatre review: A Little Life - Unbearable pain among NYC’s beautiful people

Guys & Dolls theatre review: Thrills and a spill as Hytner takes risks and hits the jackpot

The ambition of the evening astounds with the director’s first big musical in years

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March 17, 2023 10:26

Guys & Dolls theatre review: Thrills and a spill as Hytner takes risks and hits the jackpot

Topol: A performer of immense charisma who brought Tevye to life

The actor, who has died, aged 87, played the role 3,500 times and was regarded as Israel’s greatest export since the Jaffa orange

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March 9, 2023 17:48

Topol: A performer of immense charisma who brought Tevye to life

The Merchant of Venice theatre review: Oberman’s Shylock takes on the fascists

Shakespeare’s problematic play is imbued with a Jewish sensibility - with actress excelling as first woman to play Shylock in a significant production of the work

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March 9, 2023 15:55