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What's on > Theatre The Starry Messenger Laurence Green finds the eagerly awaited The Starry Messenger a play that fails to drum up much interest in or empathy with the characters and the situations they face. Read more	0	7th Jun 2019 Laurence Green
What's on > Theatre Rutherford and Son An impressive, intimate family drama that has aged well and provides plenty of topical resonance in its sense of festering tensions between the generations, writes Laurence Green. Read more	1	7th Jun 2019 Laurence Green
What's on Salt Salt is a heartfelt production which takes the form of a brave, honest and unforgiving poetic meditation. But it suffers from repetition with the points made somewhat over-emphasised. Laurence Green reviews. Read more	0	31st May 2019 Laurence Green
What's on La Voix Gabriel Wilding enjoys a knockout evening under the Spiegeltent, on London's Southbank, in the company of the inimitable La Voix. Read more	0	30th May 2019 50connect editorial
What's on > Theatre Our Town Thornton Wilder's revived Pulitzer-winning play is a grand meditation on human life, celebrating what it is to be alive and the bonds that unite us all. Laurence Green reviews. Read more	0	29th May 2019 Laurence Green
What's on > Theatre Death of a Salesman Wendell Pierce excels in this compassionate, psychologically acute interpretation of Arthur Miller's classic that allows us to see a familiar play with fresh eyes. Laurence Green reviews. Read more	0	21st May 2019 Laurence Green
What's on Amour Amour is a lightweight musical fantasy about daring to dream and the power of self-belief, writes Laurence Green. Read more	0	21st May 2019 Laurence Green
What's on > Theatre Rosmersholm This timely revival of Ibsen's Rosmersholm "is a piercingly relevant work of personal and political passion, ambitious, complex and dramatically compelling. It might now in our troubled, searching times have found its right moment." Laurence Green reviews. Read more	0	13th May 2019 Laurence Green
What's on > Theatre Small Island A passionate engagement with the past that is sure to resonate with audiences at a time when recognition and compensation for the Windrush generation is under such fierce scrutiny. Laurence Green reviews. Read more	0	8th May 2019 Laurence Green
What's on > Theatre All My Sons Sally Field and Bill Pullman bring a real sense of authenticity to this production that is a testament to the enduring power of Arthur Miller's appeal to our collective conscience. Laurence Green reviews. Read more	0	30th Apr 2019 Laurence Green
What's on > Theatre I Spy With My Little Eye Something Beginning With Why Have You Been Sleeping With My Wife: A Play by Christopher Bliss With dad jokes flying left right and centre and some nice physical comedy, this is a show for those who have never truly grown up and long may they remain! Gabriel Wilding reviews. Read more	0	26th Apr 2019 50connect editorial
What's on > Theatre Sweet Charity A heart-pounding, foot-tapping ode to Broadway musicals which sees Anne-Marie Duff steal the show as the titular heroine. Laurence Green reviews. Read more	0	23rd Apr 2019 Laurence Green
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	0	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	0	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