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The Sound of Music – Curve Leicester

The Sound of Music continues at Curve Leicester until 17 January 2026. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ This is an embracing hug of a night out and an elegant alternative to panto as the yuletide celebrations begin.

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My Fair Lady – Leicester Curve

My Fair Lady continues at Leicester Curve until 5 January 2025. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ With Lerner and Loewe’s classic score behind it, there is still a lot of ‘loverly’ things in this timeless show.

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Love Is Only Love – The Other Palace

Love Is Only Love continues at The Other Palace, London until 15 May 2022. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Directed by Jason Morell, Love Is Only Love dispenses with somewhat threadbare, tired types of storylines about gay male identity and serves up a refreshingly different, intimate, largely genteel and funny introspective into […]

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Other Palace encore for Love Is Only Love

Following a sold-out debut run at The Other Palace in 2019, uplifting musical Love Is Only Love will return to the London venue for a limited run from 29 April until 4 May 2022. Written by actor and playwright Sam Harrison (Avenue Q, Les Misérables) who also returns in the central role of ‘the boy’ […]

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Review: An American in Paris – arriving in cinemas on 16 May

An American in Paris – the film of the original London cast will be shown in 42 cinemas nationally and worldwide on 16 May 2018. Directed and choreographed by Christopher Wheeldon. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ For any lover of Gershwin and dance and classic musicals this broadcast is a must. On […]

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Oklahoma! – BBC Proms – Royal Albert Hall

Oklahoma! at the BBC Proms was performed at the Royal Albert Hall, London. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Few titles deserve their exclamation mark more than Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Oklahoma! The score sounds as fresh as it did when it was written in 1943 and at this semi-staged performance there might have been folk […]

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An American in Paris – news of full West End cast

Full casting has been announced for Christopher Wheeldon’s reinvention of the Gene Kelly classic An American in Paris which will dance its way into London’s Dominion Theatre early next year. Joining the previously announced stars of the hit Broadway production Robert Fairchild (as Jerry Mulligan) and Leanne Cope (as Lise Dassin) will be Haydn Oakley […]

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