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‘Overly ambitious but spirited’
The things I’ll do for theatre are many and at times ludicrous. But braving a particularly wet and [...]
Shirley Collins, Live from the Barbican, music review
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‘Long live the queen of folk!’
As a light rain pitter-patters outside, the Barbican hall is filled with an older (yet trendy) [...]
English National Ballet – Reunion
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‘Ballet is back and in a big way!’
Sadler’s Wells flings its doors wide open, with a little queuing and NHS QR-coding first of [...]
Paul Weller, Jules Buckley & BBC Symphony Orchestra, Barbican, live music review
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‘I’m now a full-blown Weller wannabe’
Looking every inch ‘The Modfather’, Paul Weller, standing in the Barbican’s echoey foyer, [...]
LSO/Rattle: Das Lied von der Erde, Barbican, live music review
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‘Poignant journey from misery to hope’
So, we are back again, and when I say we, I mean me, alone in my living room, puppy on [...]
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
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‘A pleasant if not particularly original experience’
Dramatising the popular German fairytale by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, new [...]
The Picture of Dorian Gray
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Stars combine and theatres from east to west collaborate for a digital recontextualising of Oscar Wilde’s seminal novel. But can [...]
The Regina Monologues
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From the heart of St Albans (Maltings Theatre to be precise) and shot straight to your home, this production drags the wives of [...]