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Thursday, April 11, 2019

BWW Review: DON'T YOU DARE!, Tristan Bates Theatre by Cindy Marcolina

The Actors Centre and Voila Theatre are currently hosting A Piece of the Continent at the Tristan Bates Theatre, a small three-week festival to celebrate European talent. Artist coming from …

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Wednesday, April 10, 2019

BWW Review: THRIL ME: THE LEOPOLD & LOEB STORY, The Hope Theatre by Cindy Marcolina

The crimes perpetrated by Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb in 1920s-Chicago have gone on to become interwoven in popular culture and have generated a multitude of films, plays, and fiction. T…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:44AM
Saturday, April 6, 2019

BWW Review: INTRA MUROS, Park Theatre by Cindy Marcolina

Richard, a theatre director who's seen better days, is asked to teach a drama class in a maximum security prison in Norwich. Only two inmates are attending the course, which kick-starts an e…

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Friday, April 5, 2019

BWW Review: OPERATION BLACK ANTLER, Southbank Centre by Cindy Marcolina

Operation Black Antler marked Blast Theory and Hydrocracker's sell-out venture at the Brighton Festival last year. Now they bring it to London as, one assumes, a bigger and more complex prod…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:28AM
Tuesday, April 2, 2019

BWW Review: LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE, Arcola Theatre by Cindy Marcolina

Back in 2006 a small road-trip film about a dysfunctional family, the Hoovers - who set off on a trek to a children's beauty pageant was released to audiences in the US.

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:22AM
Sunday, March 31, 2019

BWW Review: MAGGIE MAY, Finborough Theatre by Cindy Marcolina

Liverpool, 1960s. Maggie May Duffy is a prostitute who's in love with her childhood sweetheart Patrick Casey, a sailor and son of a union leader who's been at sea for some time. She tries to…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:10AM
Saturday, March 30, 2019

BWW Review: THE PHLEBOTOMIST, Hampstead Theatre by Cindy Marcolina

When Bea meets Aaron, she thinks she's found the one. He's handsome, smart, has a good job and, most importantly, his genetic profile is spotless. While she's slowly but surely getting to th…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:05AM
Friday, March 29, 2019

BWW Review: GRIEF IS THE THING WITH FEATHERS, Barbican by Cindy Marcolina

Enda Walsh and Cillian Murphy team up again after a streak of collaborations started with Disco Pigs that saw them working together on award-winning and career-defining productions throughou…

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Saturday, March 23, 2019

BWW Review: MARY'S BABIES, Jermyn Street Theatre by Cindy Marcolina

Mary Barton founded one of the first fertility clinics. She pioneered artificial insemination and worked within the confined of tabooed subjects, coming in aid of those married couples who w…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:55AM
Tuesday, March 19, 2019

BWW Review: THE RUBENSTEIN KISS, Southwark Playhouse by Cindy Marcolina

In June 1953 after a brutal trial lasted over two years, Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were executed for allegedly providing the Soviet Union with nuclear weapon designs, espionage, and conspir…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:30AM
Saturday, March 16, 2019

BWW Review: ANNA X, VAULT Festival by Cindy Marcolina

Anna Rosie Sheehy is a Russian art lover who dreams of being the curator of her own gallery. Ariel Joshua James is the CEO of an exclusive dating app. But are they really who they pretend to…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:36AM

BWW Review: LUCY LIGHT, VAULT Festival by Cindy Marcolina

Lucy and Jess have just finished their GCSEs. They feel like their lives are about to start between a swig of Chardonnay in Jess' bedroom and the promise of having the best time ever at a pa…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:42AM
Friday, March 15, 2019

BWW Review: LET'S SUMMON DEMONS, VAULT Festival by Cindy Marcolina

In a derelict house built on the path walked by the dead in the middle of nowhere in Wales, a coven of witches comes together. Written by Katy Schutte, Let's Summon Demons is a semi-particip…

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BWW Review: 10, VAULT Festival by Cindy Marcolina

Playwright Lizzie Milton unearths ten stories previously buried deep inside white history and delivers them with forward storytelling and a no-holds-barred attitude.

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Wednesday, March 13, 2019

BWW Review: BETRAYAL, Harold Pinter Theatre by Cindy Marcolina

When Betrayal first premiered in 1978 it was received rather coldly by critics and audiences alike, who were perhaps expecting Pinter to deal with more significant themes instead of focusing…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:57PM
Tuesday, March 12, 2019

BWW Review: THE TWILIGHT ZONE, Ambassadors Theatre by Cindy Marcolina

Before Black Mirror, there was The Twilight Zone. First aired in 1959, the series was presented by Rod Serling who, at the time, had risen to prominence as a writer of television dramas as w…

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Saturday, March 9, 2019

BWW Review: THROWN, VAULT Festival by Cindy Marcolina

Thrown sees a child psychologist attempt to record her own childhood experiences and traumas in order to try to make sense of her past and who she has become. Written by Jodi Gray, the piece…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:26PM

BWW Review: FEED, VAULT Festival by Cindy Marcolina

Presented by physical theatre company Theatre Temoin, Feed takes a look at a world of algorithms, click-bait, targeted ads, and fake news.

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:38AM
Friday, March 8, 2019

BWW Review: PUFFERFISH, VAULT Festival by Cindy Marcolina

Pufferfish marks Nick Bruckman's debut as a playwright. Based on the real-life deeds of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, the play explores the strong link between violence and sexuality that pu…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:11AM

BWW Review: THE CHURCH OF THE STURDY VIRGIN, VAULT Festival by Cindy Marcolina

A closed casket arrives at the Leake Street Graffiti Tunnel. A couple of merry gravediggers beckon the crowd while they wait for the funeral director, who will lead the congregation to the C…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:32AM
Thursday, March 7, 2019

BWW Review: MEDEA, Barbican by Cindy Marcolina

Euripides most famous and ruthless female character comes to life again at the hand of director Simon Stone and International Theatre Amsterdam after an award-winning run in the Dutch capita…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:26AM
Tuesday, March 5, 2019

BWW Review: MY BROTHER'S KEEPER?, The Playground Theatre by Cindy Marcolina

In a shabby NHS ward, Mr Stone Andy de la Tour is turning food downand slowly dying after a stroke. After a major fall-out years before, his sons come togetherto attempt toconvince their fat…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:31AM
Monday, March 4, 2019

BWW Review: MISS FORTUNATE, VAULT Festival by Cindy Marcolina

Molly loses her mum when she's 21. Actually, she knows where her mother is, she is inside a box at the crematorium. With razor-sharp humour and the cheek to go with it, Miss Fortunate is a p…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:13AM
Saturday, March 2, 2019

BWW Review: WOMAN! PILOT! PIRATE?, VAULT Festival by Cindy Marcolina

Emmy finds her life to be absurdly limiting. When she gets sacked by her boss, she takes the chance to set on a mission to find her hero Amelia Earhart. The pilot has been missing for 81 yea…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:04PM

BWW Review: UNMYTHABLE, VAULT Festival by Cindy Marcolina

After a European tour, Out of Chaos bring their celebrated Unmythable to The Vaults. Devised by the company on the lines of something Reduced Shakespeare Company might do and directed by Mik…

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Friday, March 1, 2019

BWW Review: LADYKILLER, VAULT Festival by Cindy Marcolina

A nightmarish scream anticipates the lights. A maid is standing over a bloodied corpse, fresh blood is soaking her arms up to her elbow and staining her crisp white apron.

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:49AM

BWW Review: NARCISSIST IN THE MIRROR, VAULT Festival by Cindy Marcolina

A dressing room of a West End theatre. Narcissus is putting makeup on as she starts to talk to a therapist of sorts who's sitting, in her mind, in a corner.

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:37AM
Thursday, February 28, 2019

BWW Review: WOOD, VAULT Festival by Cindy Marcolina

When John Rolando fails to be able to get an instant erection on the set of a porn film, his life starts to fall apart and kicks off a curious experiment of meta-theatre.

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:45AM

BWW Review: WORK BITCH, VAULT Festival by Cindy Marcolina

Waitress is 32 years old and is still serving tables. She didn't plan out to stay in the service for this long, nor she enjoys the humiliation and stress it comes from it. Yet, she does it d…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:38AM
Wednesday, February 27, 2019

BWW Review: THE SON, Kiln Theatre by Cindy Marcolina

Teenager Nicolas Laurie Kynaston is going through a difficult phase. He used to be the happiest of kids but everything changed after his parents' divorce Amanda Abbington and John Light two …

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:05AM
Tuesday, February 19, 2019

BWW Review: THE LADY FROM THE SEA, The Print Room by Cindy Marcolina

The Print Room at The Coronet is hosting a slick and melancholic bilingual revival of Henrik Ibsen's The Lady From The Sea produced by the venue in their first collaboration with The Norwegi…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:43AM

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May 30, 2023: Grey House - Lyceum Theatre
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Jul 24, 2023: The Cottage - Hayes Theater
Nov 16, 2023: Spamalot - St. James Theatre
Dec 18, 2023: Appropriate - Hayes Theater
Mar 07, 2024: Doubt - Todd Haimes Theatre
Apr 14, 2024: Lempicka - Longacre Theatre
Apr 17, 2024: The Wiz - Marquis Theatre
Apr 18, 2024: Suffs - Music Box Theatre
Apr 25, 2024: Mother Play - Hayes Theater
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