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REVIEW: A Stan is Born ⭐⭐⭐⭐
“If you can’t stan yourself, how the hell are you gonna stan someone else?” A Stan Is Born, written and performed by Alexis Sakellaris, is a musical comedy detailing Sakellaris’s move from New York City to rural Germany, where he finds his only salvation in pop divas. The show, described as “a love letter to…
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REVIEW: Port City Signature ⭐⭐⭐
“Train, port, city, sea” Have you ever gotten off at the wrong train station? Have you taken refuge in a local pub, waiting for the next train to come? Have said pub’s owners ever given you an offer you can’t refuse, say, killing a man for £100,000? This is what one woman faces when she…
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INTERVIEW: Claire-Marie Hall, Chlöe Hart and Emily Barber on Operation Mincemeat
“It’s about a small group of people achieving big things, which is a lovely message to send outwardly” Operation Mincemeat, the winner of the 2023 Olivier Award for Best New Musical, has been taking the Fortune Theatre – and the West End! – by storm with its incredible musical tale of the real-life Operation Mincemeat,…
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INTERVIEW: Joshua Malina on What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank
“Even in these remarkably polarized times, it is possible to really hear people with whom you have deep differences and to make some kind of human connection despite them” What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank opens at the Marylebone Theatre next month. The show, written by Nathan Englander and directed by…
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INTERVIEW: Mohamed-Zain Dada on Dizzy
“Finding ‘community’ with other writers and artists is a great way to remind yourself why you write and create in the first place” Dizzy, a new play written by Mohamed Zain-Dada and directed by Rob Watt, is currently making its premier at Sheffield Theatres as a co-production with Theatre Centre. The show is a “unique…
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“Clown Sex is trying to promote not just a liberation of sexual freedom, but a liberation of thought, particularly when it comes to society’s judgements on individuals” – An Interview with Natasha Sutton Williams
Clowns and sex – Two things that typically aren’t found in the same conversation, let alone the same sentence! But, for Natasha Sutton Williams, those two words became the title of her show, Clown Sex. I recently had the chance to speak with Natasha about the story behind the show and what she hopes audiences…
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