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Feature: The top 10 theatre debate

There’s nothing like publishing a top ten list to get a debate raging. As soon as the list hits the page (or screen) people start to disagree and produce their own lists. So when Michael Coveney listed his ten favourite theatres, it was only a matter of time before other contenders started to be proposed….

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Review: The Go Between – Royal & Derngate, Northampton

Every so often the rumour circulates that the British Musical is dead, however, it’s rare that one comes across a new musical so well-crafted that it leaves one struggling for enough suitable superlatives. If Richard Taylor and David Wood’s adaptation of The Go Between are any marker, fears for the future of British musical theatre…

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Spring Storm – National Theatre Cottesloe

If you think you’ve seen all of Tennessee Williams’ work think again. 27 years after the author’s death the National Theatre stages the London transfer of Northampton Royal & Derngate’s European Premiere of Spring Storm. The play, written in 1937 lay forgotten in papers until its rediscovery in the 1990s but this is the first…

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Spring Storm – National Theatre Cottesloe

If you think you’ve seen all of Tennessee Williams’ work think again. 27 years after the author’s death the National Theatre stages the London transfer of Northampton Royal & Derngate’s European Premiere of Spring Storm. The play, written in 1937 lay forgotten in papers until its rediscovery in the 1990s but this is the first…

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