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The Winter’s Tale review – Bertie Carvel is chilling as the RSC ramps up the thrills

www.silverguide.site – Yaël Farber’s production manages the problem play’s awkward shift from dark to light well, but is often opaque in meaning…
The Winter’s Tale review – Bertie Carvel is chilling as the RSC ramps up the thrills
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Breakfast With Mugabe: biting political drama finally arrives in South Africa

www.silverguide.site – Unpacking the president of Zimbabwe’s psyche felt urgent in 2001 when he remained in violent power. But the play has found fresh relevance today…
Breakfast With Mugabe: biting political drama finally arrives in South Africa
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Burlesque: The Musical review – Christina Aguilera movie gets a gloriously ‘dirrty’ makeover

www.silverguide.site – This adrenalised adaptation of the 2010 film is stuffed with superb voices and sensational moves…
Burlesque: The Musical review – Christina Aguilera movie gets a gloriously ‘dirrty’ makeover
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‘I didn’t cry till the following year’: standup Thanyia Moore on the tragedy she turned into laughter

www.silverguide.site – The comic was all set to make her debut at the Edinburgh fringe. Then, with hours to go, she had a medical emergency. The former dancer explains how it all fed into her new standup show…
‘I didn’t cry till the following year’: standup Thanyia Moore on the tragedy she turned into laughter
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Tanz fever: a whirl through the Viennese festival where dance erupts across the city

www.silverguide.site – Austria’s month-long ImPulsTanz celebration goes beyond the norm to turn rope jumping, navel-gazing and masked protest into explosive shows…
Tanz fever: a whirl through the Viennese festival where dance erupts across the city
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Edinburgh funniest fringe joke award scrapped for 2025

www.silverguide.site – TV channel U&Dave has announced its award for best joke at the fringe, launched in 2008, won’t be given this year…
Edinburgh funniest fringe joke award scrapped for 2025
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‘A privilege and a great pleasure’: inside the 5,000-item Stephen Sondheim collection

www.silverguide.site – A treasure trove of manuscripts, notebooks and recordings from the theatre legend has been acquired by the Library of Congress in Washington DC…
‘A privilege and a great pleasure’: inside the 5,000-item Stephen Sondheim collection
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Out, damned shot! Macbeth becomes a cutthroat netball musical at Edinburgh fringe

www.silverguide.site – Lady Macbeth Played Wing Defence combines comedy, songs and athleticism as a young netball player reckons with her own ambitions against an electro-pop score…
Out, damned shot! Macbeth becomes a cutthroat netball musical at Edinburgh fringe
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Frank Barrie obituary

www.silverguide.site – Witty and elegant actor whose roles ranged from Shakespeare to Dot Cotton’s gentleman friend in EastEnders…
Frank Barrie obituary
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Grief is the Thing With Feathers: why Max Porter’s strange but ‘magnificent’ debut keeps inspiring adaptations

www.silverguide.site – With a new Australian stage version and a movie starring Benedict Cumberbatch later this year, the author’s boundary-pushing novella continues to soar…
Grief is the Thing With Feathers: why Max Porter’s strange but ‘magnificent’ debut keeps inspiring adaptations
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‘Robin Williams said: “I’ll buy the club!”’: how The Comic Strip set the UK comedy scene ablaze

www.silverguide.site – It started in a strip joint and ended up bringing alternative comedy to our TV screens. Ahead of a new Edinburgh show, Peter Richardson tells us why his riotous creation still makes audiences laugh 40 years on…
‘Robin Williams said: “I’ll buy the club!”’: how The Comic Strip set the UK comedy scene ablaze
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Smart, sharp and nonstop dance: how Twyla Tharp is bossing the Venice Dance Biennale in her 80s

www.silverguide.site – Tharp picked up a Golden Lion award for her experimental and accessible choreography, while Carolina Bianchi won a Silver Lion for her fearless exploration of sexual assault…
Smart, sharp and nonstop dance: how Twyla Tharp is bossing the Venice Dance Biennale in her 80s
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Sing Street review – uplifting songs and strong voices lift 80s Dublin-set musical

www.silverguide.site – The stage version of John Carney’s film stays bright-eyed despite the darker turns in this tale of teenage pop, poverty and fractious families…
Sing Street review – uplifting songs and strong voices lift 80s Dublin-set musical
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Riders to the Sea / Macbeth review – intense double bill linked by elemental forces of nature

www.silverguide.site – To mark their 50th anniversary, Druid Theatre Company pair Shakespeare with JM Synge’s stark one-act tragedy…
Riders to the Sea / Macbeth review – intense double bill linked by elemental forces of nature
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Oh … review – underwater piano playing serves up a skilful aquarium spectacle

www.silverguide.site – Mikel Murfi enters the three-metre-high glass tank to lift weights, look lost and direct fishy traffic…
Oh … review – underwater piano playing serves up a skilful aquarium spectacle
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The Estate review – Adeel Akhtar is unmissable as ferociously ambitious MP

www.silverguide.site – Shaan Sahota’s play sets a British-Sikh politician’s schemes against his family betrayal – a tremendous debut from a writer of huge promise…
The Estate review – Adeel Akhtar is unmissable as ferociously ambitious MP
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Circle Mirror Transformation review – a heart-first play of human connection

www.silverguide.site – Logie winner Rebecca Gibney leads a suite of strong performances in Pulitzer prize-winning playwright Annie Baker’s gentle, generous comedy set in a community centre drama class…
Circle Mirror Transformation review – a heart-first play of human connection
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Poor Clare review – sassy spin on a medieval saint asks pithy questions

www.silverguide.site – Casting two Netflix stars in this funny and astute modernisation of the life of Saint Clare of Assisi shows that the gulf between rich and poor never changes…
Poor Clare review – sassy spin on a medieval saint asks pithy questions
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The Railway Children review – a real steam train is the spectacular star

www.silverguide.site – Stupendous set design brings E Nesbit’s children’s classic to new life as a wealthy Anglo-Indian family is forced to adjust to reduced life in Yorkshire in this irresistible adaptation…
The Railway Children review – a real steam train is the spectacular star
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Here You Come Again review – Dolly Parton musical fails to hit a high note

www.silverguide.site – Tricia Paoluccio is very good as Parton, but a painfully thin plot about a solipsistic manchild who is visited by the singer-turned-guardian-angel is just tedious…
Here You Come Again review – Dolly Parton musical fails to hit a high note
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