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An Ideal Husband review – Oscar Wilde’s comedy gets the gleefully camp glow-up it deserves

www.silverguide.site – The dissolute aristocrats from 1895 remain sharply funny, and bitingly relevant, in this flamboyant new spin…
An Ideal Husband review – Oscar Wilde’s comedy gets the gleefully camp glow-up it deserves
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Black Diamonds and the Blue Brazil review – a daughter waits to fulfil her football fan father’s final wish

www.silverguide.site – Dawn Steele stars in Ron Ferguson’s warm-hearted tale of a town whose fortunes are tied to those of its coal mine and local team…
Black Diamonds and the Blue Brazil review – a daughter waits to fulfil her football fan father’s final wish
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Tulsa Ballet: Made in America review – fantastically flexible Oklahoman squad are A-OK!

www.silverguide.site – This first UK visit for the company showcases the dancers’ elegance and versatility across three pieces of varying impact…
Tulsa Ballet: Made in America review – fantastically flexible Oklahoman squad are A-OK!
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Letter: Michael Pennington obituary

www.silverguide.site – Joe Unsworth writes: It felt a great privilege to watch Michael Pennington on his touring theatre shows to Newcastle…
Letter: Michael Pennington obituary
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Andrie Reid obituary

www.silverguide.site – Other lives: Dancer and actor in revues, TV shows, opera and plays who later worked as a host at Ronnie Scott’s …
Andrie Reid obituary
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Sherlock Holmes review – the game is afoot, a stone’s throw from Baker Street

www.silverguide.site – The detective and his sidekick return for a new case by Joel Horwood in an alfresco setting that playfully refers to nearby attractions…
Sherlock Holmes review – the game is afoot, a stone’s throw from Baker Street
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Forgiveness of a Monster review – psychodrama jostles with standup in foggy autofiction

www.silverguide.site – Connor Allen’s autobiographical show is a twister that winds in everything from gothic mystery to therapy sessions in an ambitious, rather incoherent mix…
Forgiveness of a Monster review – psychodrama jostles with standup in foggy autofiction
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‘What’s this groove becoming?!’ How The Harder They Come captured 70s Jamaica and blazed on to stage

www.silverguide.site – The monumental soundtrack of Perry Henzell’s film, starring Jimmy Cliff, powered the best musical of 2025. Its creators discuss bringing their hit back after the reggae giant’s death…
‘What’s this groove becoming?!’ How The Harder They Come captured 70s Jamaica and blazed on to stage
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A leak at No 11: Rachel Reeves and the satire about the urinal she couldn’t get rid of

www.silverguide.site – When she broke through the glass ceiling and became chancellor, Reeves found her office had its own latrine. Rosie Holt reveals why she turned the story into a play called Churchill’s Urinal…
A leak at No 11: Rachel Reeves and the satire about the urinal she couldn’t get rid of
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Matching Gary Oldman’s Krapp with a teenager’s take on Godot is a masterstoke

www.silverguide.site – The Royal Court is presenting the Slow Horses star’s version of one Beckett masterpiece alongside 19-year-old Leo Simpe-Asante’s riff on another. They combine beautifully…
Matching Gary Oldman’s Krapp with a teenager’s take on Godot is a masterstoke
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Lenny Henry: Still at Large review – comic brings back greatest hits for a victory lap

www.silverguide.site – With bits about Prince, Tiswas, his Jamaican family and his long career, the standup treads familiar ground and the home-town crowd love it…
Lenny Henry: Still at Large review – comic brings back greatest hits for a victory lap
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Theatre streaming is not a threat to in-person attendance, new research shows

www.silverguide.site – Report suggests that popular initiatives such as NT Live and NT at Home are making UK audiences more adventurous…
Theatre streaming is not a threat to in-person attendance, new research shows
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Michael Pennington was an actor of astonishing range, a wise writer and witty company

www.silverguide.site – Over his kaleidoscopic career, the great Shakespearean was a stalwart of the RSC, co-founded a ‘rock’n’roll’ theatre company and excelled at Chekhov and Pinter…
Michael Pennington was an actor of astonishing range, a wise writer and witty company
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Michael Pennington, Shakespeare and Star Wars actor, dies aged 82

www.silverguide.site – ‘Brilliant, wise’ co-founder of English Shakespeare Company celebrated for his portrayal of roles including Macbeth and Mercutio…
Michael Pennington, Shakespeare and Star Wars actor, dies aged 82
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Foal review – British Asian’s search for belonging ripples between tenderness and rage

www.silverguide.site – Titas Halder’s raw solo play relays one young man’s feverish struggle in the face of racism, deftly played by Amar Chadha-Patel in his stage debut…
Foal review – British Asian’s search for belonging ripples between tenderness and rage
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The Wasp review – tormented reunion with school bully lacks sting

www.silverguide.site – Morgan Lloyd Malcolm’s revenge drama has plenty of rug-pulling twists, but stilted presentation leaves little sense of jeopardy…
The Wasp review – tormented reunion with school bully lacks sting
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Party Season review – kids’ birthday marathon pumps up parental anxiety to bursting point

www.silverguide.site – Balloons meet the sharper points of competitive parenting over a weekend of back-to-back kids’ parties, in this broad comedy of social manners…
Party Season review – kids’ birthday marathon pumps up parental anxiety to bursting point
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‘I was in a terrible state’: actor David Morrissey tells how social anxiety led him to alcoholism

www.silverguide.site – Speaking on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs, Liverpool-born actor says depression and anxiety followed death of his father when he was 15…
‘I was in a terrible state’: actor David Morrissey tells how social anxiety led him to alcoholism
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Bank of Dave: The Musical review – ebullient local hero story bursts into song

www.silverguide.site – The tale of a Burnley businessman who gives his town a financial leg-up overeggs the north-south cultural divide, but Pippa Cleary’s bright musical numbers propel the positivity…
Bank of Dave: The Musical review – ebullient local hero story bursts into song
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‘My dad cannot see me on stage doing this’: will the stigma around boys who dance ever shift?

www.silverguide.site – As the pioneering BalletBoyz company celebrates its 25th anniversary and Billy Elliott returns to the stage, the male dance landscape appears transformed from where it was at the turn of the century. But a certain macho dismissiveness remains ……
‘My dad cannot see me on stage doing this’: will the stigma around boys who dance ever shift?
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