How A Suffragette, A Painter, and An Explorer Create An Explosion of Joy: 'Fantastically Great Women' Review
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![How A Suffragette, A Painter, and An Explorer Create An Explosion of Joy: 'Fantastically Great Women' Review](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/29f1ac_b9f989c4736a4052aa40a728b0d18984~mv2.png/v1/fill/w_394,h_222,fp_0.50_0.50,q_95,enc_auto/29f1ac_b9f989c4736a4052aa40a728b0d18984~mv2.webp)
Elena Breschi is having an absolute blast on that TOP stage, and so do we get a rip-roaring experience.
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When A Joyous Celebration of Fan Culture Goes Too Far: Reviewing 'Fangirls' at the Lyric Hammersmith
It took the central plot device of an unhinged fanfiction to extremes, detracting from the joyous energy and pure passion of before.
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Juicy, Tender, and Packs a Punch: Reviewing 'The Hot Wing King' at the National Theatre
Characters are three-dimensional and credible, and they come alive under Weise’s direction and a highly talented cast.
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Celebrating An Oft-Overlooked Genre: Reviewing 'Crazy Smooth: In My Body' at the Southbank Centre
Moments of vulnerability offer personal accounts of the problems that embroil a dance career: ageing, motherhood, and injury.
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Minimalist Theatre at its Most Seductive: Reviewing 'Hedda Gabler'
As you step into the intimate Bread and Roses’ theatre to take your seat, you walk past Hedda Gabler, played by Eliza Cameron, as she...
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‘The Secret Garden’ Review: Despite a Few Misses, This Adaptation Hits Home
★★★ | If my memory serves me right, I was somewhere in the early years of middle-school when I first read Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The...
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![Meet Mya Kelln: The ‘Hedda Gabler’ Director and King’s Student Debuting her First Off-West End Play this July.](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/29f1ac_5e8569a1c9174bbfb546487fe48d4f60~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_394,h_222,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_auto/29f1ac_5e8569a1c9174bbfb546487fe48d4f60~mv2.webp)
Meet Mya Kelln: The ‘Hedda Gabler’ Director and King’s Student Debuting her First Off-West End Play this July.
From Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, a city in the Canadian prairies, twenty-year-old Mya Kelln is a creative force to be reckoned with. Having...
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![God They're Brilliant: Reviewing The Fortune Theatre's New 'Mincemeat' Five](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/29f1ac_d625e9ac32ef4a7190b4ad5ab70c4ab0~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_394,h_222,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_auto/29f1ac_d625e9ac32ef4a7190b4ad5ab70c4ab0~mv2.webp)
God They're Brilliant: Reviewing The Fortune Theatre's New 'Mincemeat' Five
Operation Mincemeat's Sean Carey makes us not only root for him but also celebrate with him – few performers have the ability to do this.
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Bronté Barbé and Rebekah Hinds Talk "Kathy & Stella" Solving the Mystery of How to Break Into the West End
"You can take the show out of the fringe, but not the fringe out of the show," the musical's stars recalled the wisdom of their producer.
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