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An awesome and ridiculous film that leaves you thrilled beyond the point of your natural endurance
2012
Theatre
The show has suddenly become quite wonderful, and the galvanising factor is the terrific stage debut of Melanie C
Blood Brothers
Music
The British pop music industry may be eating itself but if Muse are the pick of what it can offer the world in 2010 then British music is in rude health indeed
Muse
I was smitten by both Gilberts enormous luxuriant moustache and the intelligence and nuance of this highly entertaining play
I totally recommend Babbo to anyone who is looking for really good and traditional Italian food
Always been a fan but never seen them live. I was ecstatic to be part of this epic event. WOW!
London,
17.04.09
As he makes his exit after almost 18 years at the Standard, our theatre critic calls for the London stage to be given the bright future it so richly...
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15.04.09
Calendar Girls is a chance to enjoy displays of prudery, coyness and vulgarity, a mixed cocktail of character-traits that remains forever English.
09.04.09
The extraordinary Death and the King’s Horseman, by Nobel prize‑winning Wole Soyinka, has never been seen in London until now.
08.04.09
On transfer to the West End, A Little Night Music leaves Nicholas de Jongh far less than enraptured.
07.04.09
Wallace Shawn does not condemn the liberal rich, he renders them luridly unbelievable in The Fever.
06.04.09
War Horse canters into town with the confidence of a natural-born winner in this superb production by Marianne Elliott and Tom Morris.
02.04.09
After her precocious debut at 19, with the award-winning That Face, Polly Stenham's second play, Tusk Tusk, confirms a startling, theatrical promise.
27.03.09
Jez Butterworth’s Parlour Song duly delves into the vexed problem of marriages heading for the rocks.
26.03.09
Douglas Hodge's emotionally fraught revival of Dimetos helps provide partial answers to questions that were raised in its 1976 premiere.
25.03.09
James Macdonald's production of Christopher Marlowe's unjustly neglected Dido, Queen of Carthage is anti-climatic.
24.03.09
London has never played host to a musical pitched on a higher level of gayness and camp comedy than this ingenious adaptation of Priscilla Queen Of...
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20.03.09
Shoulders hunched, knees jerked forward, one low-hanging hand contorted, Kathryn Hunter gazes at us with swivel-eyed interest in Kafka's Monkey.
19.03.09
Few more weird or perverse straight plays than Yukio Mishima's Madame de Sade can have hit the staid West End stage this century.
18.03.09
Nicholas de Jongh never realised there was a Felicity Kendal inside the late, lamented playwright Simon Gray, struggling to get out.
12.03.09
Deep Cut, a disturbing semi-documentary play by Philip Ralph serves as another jolting reminder of how well government ministers cover-up.
09.03.09
Mark Ravenhill has hit upon an arresting dramatic conceit to convey complex ideas and emotions in Over There.
06.03.09
Brian Friel's 19-year-old memory play, Dancing At Lughnasa, is shot through with scenes of outstanding pathos and rueful humour.
05.03.09
What makes A Miracle so poignant and Bondian is the way the main characters struggle to improve their lives.
05.03.09
In the larger space of the Lyttelton, The Pitmen Painters comes across as a glorious, instant classic of early 21st-century theatre.
04.03.09
Howard Davies's production of Burnt by the Sun makes it feel for the first few moments as if we remain in Chekhov country.
