Cold War continues at the Almeida Theatre, London until 30 January 2024. Star rating: two stars ★ ★ ✩ ✩ ✩ For a venue’s big Christmas show, it’s traditional for a venue to go for something crowd-pleasing, optimistic, something to add sparkle to the drab winter evenings. So it’s a bold choice by the Almeida to go against the flow and instead bring a drab, overlong dirge of a half-musical instead.
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Cold War – Almeida Theatre
Almeida announces world premiere of Cold War plus cinema screenings of Spring Awakening
The Almeida Theatre’s artistic director Rupert Goold will direct the world premiere of Conor McPherson’s adaptation of Pawel Pawlikowski’s Academy Award-nominated Cold War.
Theatre rising stars recognised in The Stage 25 list
Twenty-five individuals or partnerships tipped to be future stars of the UK theatre industry feature on a new list unveiled to celebrate 25 years of the prestigious The Stage 100. Backed by titans of the theatre including Andrew Lloyd Webber, Cameron Mackintosh and Sonia Friedman, The Stage 25 is made up of 25 theatre-makers with […]
Nine Lessons and Carols: Stories for a long winter – Almeida Theatre
Nine Lessons and Carols continues at the Almeida Theatre, London until 9 January 2021. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ This year has been hard on everyone. Cut off from friends and family, or alternatively trapped with someone you can only tolerate in the smallest of doses. And, of course, unable to […]
Five Questions With: Naana Agyei-Ampadu
Actress NAANA AGYEI-AMPADU appears in Nine Lessons and Carols at London’s Almeida Theatre which opens on 3 December 2020 for previews (opening night is 9 December). Almeida associate director Rebecca Frecknall, playwright Chris Bush and the company of six performers have devised this new production reflecting on a year of separation and the power of contact. […]
Guildhall School of Music and Drama – Crazy For You
Crazy For You, performed by Guildhall School of Music and Drama’s final-year graduates, continues at Silk Street Theatre, London until 12 July. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Every year the same verdict on a Guildhall School musical: lift this show lock, stock and barrel a couple of miles across London to […]
