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October cinema release confirmed for Hadestown film

Trafalgar Releasing has announced an October cinema release date for the film of the acclaimed West End production of American folk singer Anaïs Mitchell’s record-breaking Hadestown.

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West End production of Hadestown to be filmed

The acclaimed West End production of Anaïs Mitchell’s record-breaking Hadestown will be filmed at London’s Lyric Theatre across three performances during the upcoming limited run featuring members of the original National Theatre and Tony Award-winning Broadway cast (11 February to 9 March).

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Film Review: Spirited – Apple TV+

Spirited is streaming now on Apple TV+. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ The budget is obscene and the film is not high art, but judged purely on a its merits as a distracting Christmas comedy musical to be enjoyed on a hungover Sunday afternoon, Spirited delivers the goods.

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Film Review: ’A spellbinding cinematic firework’ – In The Heights

In the Heights, now playing in cinemas. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Many years before Hamilton, Lin-Manuel Miranda’s first musical was In The Heights: a love letter to the neighbourhood in which he grew up. It is arguably less technically sophisticated than his later Pulitzer Prize-winning ode to America’s first treasury secretary, […]

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In The Heights movie debuts in cinemas – Watch the first eight minutes

The new film version of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s award-winning In The Heights debuts in UK cinemas this month. Brought to the big screen by Jon M. Chu, the director of the critic and crowd-pleasing Crazy Rich Asians, the film version of the Hamilton creator’s first Tony Award-winning musical stars Anthony Ramos, the actor/singer and songwriter who […]

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Hadestown – Olivier Theatre

Hadestown continues at the Olivier at the National Theatre, London until 26 January 2019. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ It’s been over an eight-year wait since Anais Mitchell’s extraordinary universe Hadestown was born to our minds and our music players, but today the Olivier Theatre thunders with the fruits of its development. Our […]

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Amber Gray and Patrick Page to return to Hadestown roles in National Theatre production

Amber Gray and Patrick Page will reprise their original roles in American folk singer Anaïs Mitchell’s record-breaking Hadestown when it debuts at the National Theatre in November 2018 prior to a Broadway run in 2019. The actors who played the central roles of Persephone and Hades in the original New York Theatre Workshop will be […]

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