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Michael Billington RSS feedOh! what a triumph for the TV Nancy
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Jodie Prenger, the people's choice for the part of Nancy, was cheered to the rafters at the opening night of Oliver!2009-01-15T09:09:52ZTheatre
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Big musicals may dominate the West End and box office receipts, but straight drama continues to thrive. These are the key people who make this city the global capital of theatre.2008-10-02T10:15:37ZCrowds go wild for Hartnett's Rain Man
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Whenever Hollywood star Josh Hartnett finishes a performance of Rain Man, a crowd of a hundred or more is standing to thank him for taking the time2008-09-22T13:23:02ZCapturing the big bad Woolf
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If ever there was a work suited to the theatre director Katie Mitchell's distinctive style of radical reinterpretation it is Virginia Woolf's The Waves, starting its second National Theatre run.2008-08-19T23:00:00Z'Subtle', 'surreal' and the 'best in years'... David Tennant's Hamlet wins over the critics (mostly)
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Doctor Who star David Tennant's long-awaited appearance as Hamlet in a Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) production has received a mixed critical reaction.2008-08-06T12:41:03ZCan, my dear, Gone With The Wind survive?
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The critics have savaged Trevor Nunn's £4.75m Gone With the Wind. How did such a shambles make it to the stage? And can it survive such a mauling?2008-04-25T09:08:40ZLook back in laughter at a dark knight in history
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Standard critic Nicholas de Jongh's first play explores ignorance and intolerance in the Fifties.2008-03-03T00:00:00ZThe making of a great Othello
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Chiwetel Ejiofor’s Moor in the Donmar Warehouse’s production has been hailed as one of the best ever. Experiencing a ‘memorable jealousy’ gave him the necessary inspiration.2007-12-07T12:51:49ZThe return of the King
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The West End transfer of Sir Ian McKellen's debut as King Lear is already a sell-out.2007-11-20T10:27:01ZKylie's stylist raises Rent
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William Baker, the man who helped make Kylie Minogue sexy, is revamping the hit musical Rent for the West End.2007-08-03T10:22:56ZA heavenly triumph of kitsch and camp
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Lee Mead, winner of the BBC's Any Dream Will Do, flaunts quite the smallest ego of any Joseph Nicholas de Jongh has seen.2007-07-17T23:00:00ZWhat on Middle Earth?
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People said it couldn't be done - and they were right. The Lord of the Rings at the Theatre Royal is a costly, messy folly that will appal Tolkien fans..2007-06-19T23:00:00ZTheatre wars - the dead white male hits back
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The National's director Nicholas Hytner has attacked London's theatre critics for their alleged misogyny. The Standard's man in the stalls could not disagree more.2007-05-15T11:32:19ZNow theatre critics are panned
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The head of the National Theatre has launched an astonishing attack on critics as "dead white men".2007-05-14T08:13:27ZPinter awarded honorary degree
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Harold Pinter, considered by many to be Britain's greatest living playwright, is to receive an honorary degree.2007-04-13T08:09:54ZThe man who made this Cabaret go round
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Cabaret may have received rave notices, but Nick Curtis finds director Rufus Norris's next project is to re-establish his own work-life balance.2006-10-13T12:19:37Z