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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
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	1	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
What's on BFI London Film Festival 2018 Laurence Green picks out his top choices ahead of the BFI London Film Festival 2018 including Jon Baird's Stan & Ollie. Read more	0	9th Oct 2018 Laurence Green
What's on > Theatre Antony & Cleopatra Antony & Cleopatra is both epic and intimate with shining performances from Ralph Fiennes and Sophie Okonedo as the titular leads showing that passion and politics are best kept apart. Laurence Green reviews. Read more	0	3rd Oct 2018 Laurence Green
What's on Foxfinder In spite of its early promise Foxfinder is a play that loses its momentum and becomes a laboured parable about the need to seek out scapegoats for society’s ills, writes Laurence Green. Read more	0	25th Sep 2018 Laurence Green
What's on > Theatre Dance Nation Clare Barron's award-winning Dance Nation is a frank and honest portrayal of adolescence, writes Laurence Green. Read more	0	24th Sep 2018 Laurence Green
What's on > Theatre Six An exuberant, vivacious, highly original musical that is simply a joy to watch from start to finish! Laurence Green enjoys Six. a punkish romp with the wives of Henry VIII. Read more	0	5th Sep 2018 Laurence Green
What's on BlacKkKlansman Spike Lee does more than control his anger, he refines it with riotous wit, without losing the power to shock or surprise us in his new film BlacKkKlansman writes Laurence Green. Read more	0	30th Aug 2018 Laurence Green
What's on Edinburgh International & Fringe Festival 2018 Laurence Green picks through another packed programme of delights to reveal the highlights of this year's EIF and Fringe festivals. Read more	0	16th Aug 2018 Laurence Green
What's on > Theatre The Importance of Being Earnest Laurence Green enjoys one of the most immaculately crafted stage comedies of all time as The Importance of Being Earnest concludes a year-long celebration of the work of Oscar Wilde. Read more	0	9th Aug 2018 Laurence Green
What's on A Monster Calls Packing an enormous emotional punch, A Monster Calls is a tale that confronts the worst of griefs,but leaves its audience with an uplifting and positive message about loss, writes Laurence Green. Read more	0	3rd Aug 2018 Laurence Green
What's on > Theatre Spamilton Lin-Manuel Miranda's Spamilton is a clever and entertaining send up of last year's Broadway and West End smash, Hamilton. Laurence Green reviews. Read more	0	1st Aug 2018 Laurence Green
What's on The Lehman Trilogy An absorbing saga of riches and ruin provides an unforgettable cross-section of the roots of capitalism. A five-star triumph from the National, writes Laurence Green. Read more	0	23rd Jul 2018 Laurence Green
What's on > Theatre The King and I The King and I, the 60-year-old Rogers and Hammerstein classic redressed with gorgeous sets and needle sharp choreography, is a sensory treat writes Laurence Green. Read more	0	11th Jul 2018 Laurence Green