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Financial Times

Romantic Poetry, Manhattan Theatre Club, New York
Patrick Shanley cheats by setting up a plot whose need for untanglement is swept away by cutting to four years later, writes Brendan Lemon

The Times UK

New York lionises Lenny
Leonard Bernstein's legacy is being celebrated by the city whose energy and spirit he embodied, says Richard Morrison

Audience/Mountain Hotel, Orange Tree, Richmond
One is familiar and the other is a British premiere; one is a small masterpiece and the other an exercise in absurdism

The Guardian

Audience / Mountain Hotel, Orange Tree, Richmond
These two plays remind us of the subversive potency of irony

The Guardian Performing Arts Blog

Andrew Haydon: Fringe theatre is too conventional
The fringe offers straight Shakespeare and play-it-safe revivals. Where should we go for a dose of the radical?

The Stage UK

Mark Shenton: The composer discovered on myspace….
To state the blindingly obvious, the internet is changing the way we both forge and maintain relationships of all kinds - to strike a personal note, I met both my current and previous partner online first. And just being...

Whatsonstage.com

Latest Gossip: Michael Jackson Thriller Hits Shaftesbury Ave???
Don’t “Blame It on the Boogie”, Michael Jackson fans. Blame it on Flying Music. The production company that’s had huge success with pop compilation musical including The Rat Pack and Dancing in the Streets is now aiming to bring Thriller Live! into Shaftesbury Avenue.

Latest Gossip: Gossip: Plague Transfers with a New John Gielgud???
Evening Standard critic Nicholas de Jongh’s debut play Plague Over England::E8821204540545 received strong reviews when it premiered in February – in a sell-out four-week run – at the intimate Finborough Theatre in Earl’s Court. But when the long...

Latest Gossip: Gossip: Hampstead Revives Coward’s Private Lives???
We hear that Hampstead Theatre will be taking a short break from its new writing remit in the new year in order to revive Noel Coward’s classic 1929 comedy Private Lives. It may seem an odd choice, but in fact, there is a strong connection. In the 19...

Review: Showstopper!
Showstopper! is an improvised musical playing each Monday night at the King’s Head – ominously re-branded, I note, as “the King’s Head Theatre and Bar” – right through to next March. By my calculation, we shall have something like eighteen brand ne...