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What's on > Theatre Top Girls Top Girls presents an argument for compassion, as well as a sharp look at social inequality in a country divided by its own ambitions, writes Laurence Green. Read more	0	12th Apr 2019 Laurence Green
What's on > Theatre Fiddler on the Roof The resurgence in ant-Semitism ensures a timeless resonance to Trevor Nunn's revival of Fiddler on the Roof at the Playhouse Theatre, writes Laurence Green. Read more	0	5th Apr 2019 Laurence Green
What's on > Theatre Emilia Elements of pantomime and boisterous backchat make Emilia a rousing reminder of creative women who have been omitted from history or have had to fight to make themselves heard. Read more	0	5th Apr 2019 Laurence Green
What's on The Bay at Nice A small gem that says more in its 80 minutes than many plays more than twice its length and certainly makes for essential viewing. Laurence Green reviews The Bay at Nice. Read more	0	1st Apr 2019 Laurence Green
What's on > Film At Eternity's Gate Willem Dafoe stars as Vincent van Gogh in Julian Schnable's biopic but a sluggish, labouring script that labours not so much on the life of the painter or even his work but on the never ending question of “why”. Read more	1	1st Apr 2019 50connect editorial
What's on > Theatre Admissions Alex Kingston and Andrew Woodall are perfectly cast in Joshua Harmon's satirical comedy skewering of the hypocrisies of the liberal left. Read more	0	25th Mar 2019 Laurence Green
What's on > Theatre Waitress "A truly tasty treat, bringing an uplifting celebration of love and laughter to the West End stage." Laurence Green reviews Waitress at the Adelphi Theatre. Read more	0	20th Mar 2019 Laurence Green
What's on > Theatre Berberian Sound Studios Cult 2012 film Berberian Sound Studios, playing at the Donmar Warehouse, is an example of how what works on celluloid can fall flat in the theatre. Read more	0	12th Mar 2019 Laurence Green
What's on > Theatre Only Fools and Horses An affectionate, if lightweight, homage to the classic BBC sitcom with delightful performances from Tom Bennett (Del Boy) and Paul Whitehouse (Grandad). Laurence Green reviews. Read more	0	11th Mar 2019 Laurence Green
What's on > Theatre Tartuffe This fresh, funny and thoughtful production shows that Tartuffe has lost none of its sparkle, writes Laurence Green. Read more	0	4th Mar 2019 Laurence Green
What's on > Theatre All About Eve Ivo van Hove's unsettling re-imagining of the Mankiewicz classic about jealousy and ambition, which asks why our fascination with celebrity, youth and identity never seems to get old. Laurence Green reviews. Read more	0	25th Feb 2019 Laurence Green
What's on > Theatre The Price Arthur Miller's The Price is a powerful study of reunion and confrontation that yields a chest-full of pertinent and painful reflections on the forces that shape us, writes Laurence Green. Read more	0	25th Feb 2019 Laurence Green
What's on > Theatre Home, I'm Darling Home, I'm Darling is a finely tuned, thought-provoking comedy about a mini revolution in deepest suburbia, with a superb central performance by Katherine Parkinson. Laurence Green reviews. Read more	1	11th Feb 2019 Laurence Green
What's on If Beale Street Could Talk Laurence Green reviews Barry Jenkins' angry, assured and distinctive drama which asserts that even in a world of corruption and prejudice, love and dignity can prevail. Read more	0	6th Feb 2019 Laurence Green
What's on > Theatre Songs for Nobodies A tour de force performance from Bernadette Robinson marks Joanna Murray-Smith's Songs for Nobodies as a glorious homage to many of the great voices that are no longer with us. Read more	0	28th Jan 2019 Laurence Green
What's on Out and about: Tabac In need of post-festive pick me up or a treat to kick the January Blues, Kentish Town's newest drinking nook - the charming and French bar Tabac - provides as the perfect winter hideaway. Read more	0	9th Jan 2019 Eloise Craven-Todd
What's on > Theatre The Tragedy of King Richard the Second Simon Russell Beale effortlessly holds the attention as Shakespeare's flawed monarch, but overall it is a production that lacks both clarity and insight, writes Laurence Green. Read more	0	2nd Jan 2019 Laurence Green
What's on > Theatre Sweat Lynn Nottage's Pulitzer prize winning 'Sweat' flits seamlessly between humour, heartbreak and trauma and emerges as a deeply profound and moving piece of work, writes Laurence Green. Read more	0	21st Dec 2018 Laurence Green
What's on > Theatre The Tell-Tale Heart Laurence Green reviews a contemporary re-telling of Edgar Allan Poe's gothic chiller starring Tamara Lawrance and Imogen Doel at Dorfman Theatre. Read more	0	18th Dec 2018 Laurence Green
What's on > Theatre Theatre review of the year 2018 Laurence Green selects his top 10 theatre productions from a year which saw a resurgence of quality musicals and some memorable reworked classics. Read more	0	11th Dec 2018 Laurence Green
What's on > Theatre Switzerland A twisting, chilling tale filled with razor-sharp dialogue as Phyllis Logan plays the esteemed crime novelist Patricia Highsmith in Joanna Murray-Smith's Switzerland at the Ambassadors Theatre. Laurence Green reviews. Read more	0	4th Dec 2018 Laurence Green
What's on > Film The Wild Pear Tree A sobering, beautifully shot film of dashed hopes and inter-generational relationships (directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan) that implants itself on the mind. Laurence Green reviews. Read more	1	3rd Dec 2018 Laurence Green
What's on > Theatre Hadestown Laurence Green finds Anaïs Mitchell's Hadestown to be a tightly choreographed and genuinely inventive show that pitches romanticism against pragmatism and idealism against cold reality. Read more	0	27th Nov 2018 Laurence Green
What's on > Theatre Don Quixote Andrew Jackson's RSC production of Don Quixote is overlong but achieves genuine poignancy while the clanky-armoured, straggly-haired David Threlfall looks born to play the role of the eccentric knight. Read more	0	19th Nov 2018 Laurence Green
What's on ear for eye Debbie Tucker's 'ear for eye' is a dense and at times, deliberately alienating vision of race, language and power structures which dispenses with a traditional story line to concentrate on ideas, writes Laurence Green. Read more	0	12th Nov 2018 Laurence Green
What's on > Theatre Wise Children Wise Children is a love-letter to the theatre, but Emma Rice's production at the Old Vic became submerged under a welter of confusion. Read more	0	12th Nov 2018 Laurence Green
What's on The Wild Duck The brutality of truth-telling is explored by Ibsen in his 1884 classic The Wild Duck, which returns to the London stage in a stripped-down, ponderous production, directed by Robert Icke, at the Almeida Theatre. Laurence Green reviews. Read more	0	7th Nov 2018 Laurence Green
What's on > Theatre Company Marianne Elliott puts marriage under a contemporary microscope in this enjoyable re-imagining of Sondheim's Company. Indeed, this is company you should definitely keep, writes Laurence Green. Read more	0	31st Oct 2018 Laurence Green
What's on > Film Highlights of bfi London Film Festival 2018 Laurence Green rates his top picks from bfi London Film Festival 2018 including the brilliant semi-autobiographical Roma by Gravity director Alfonso Cuaron. Read more	2	26th Oct 2018 Laurence Green
What's on The Height of the Storm Jonathan Pryce and Eileen Atkins star in this compassionate, deeply moving play that teases the mind, while touching the heart. Laurence Green reviews The Height of the Storm. Read more	0	17th Oct 2018 Laurence Green