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Edinburgh festival 2025: 20 theatre shows to see this summer

www.silverguide.site – Peter Pan has a pop fantasy, Faustus is in Africa, Brian Cox leads a banking satire and Billy Connolly meets the late Alasdair Gray. Elsewhere, the joy of pickling, a landmark jazz album and Elton John’s libel case take centre stage…
Edinburgh festival 2025: 20 theatre shows to see this summer
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‘No one is immune to grief’: the team turning A Single Man into a sexy, grimy, heartbreaking ballet

www.silverguide.site – Musician John Grant was blown away by Christopher Isherwood’s 1964 novel, finding deep resonances in its tale of gay love and loss. Now, he’s put songs to choreographer Jonathan Watkins’s new dance adaptation…
‘No one is immune to grief’: the team turning A Single Man into a sexy, grimy, heartbreaking ballet
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Pioneering London playwright decried gentrification of ‘writer’s paradise’

www.silverguide.site – In 1992 letter, Mustapha Matura warned of risk to Ladbroke Grove, home to strong Caribbean creative community…
Pioneering London playwright decried gentrification of ‘writer’s paradise’
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Inside a deserted Melbourne shopping mall is a bizarre XR journey into psychosis

www.silverguide.site – The Door in Question uses VR headsets, sound and even smells to create an immersive experience inspired by its creator’s experience with mental illness…
Inside a deserted Melbourne shopping mall is a bizarre XR journey into psychosis
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‘What are you trying to incite?’ Billy Porter asks thorny questions with This Bitter Earth

www.silverguide.site – The Cabaret and Pose star is making his UK directorial debut with Harrison David Rivers’ play about love and activism. We join rehearsals with Omari Douglas and Alexander Lincoln…
‘What are you trying to incite?’ Billy Porter asks thorny questions with This Bitter Earth
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4.48 Psychosis review – bared anguish and delicate detail in Sarah Kane’s final play

www.silverguide.site – Kane’s emotionally unswerving gifts as a writer are on full display in a 25th-anniversary production reuniting the original cast…
4.48 Psychosis review – bared anguish and delicate detail in Sarah Kane’s final play
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Alan Strachan obituary

www.silverguide.site – Director in the West End and regional theatre for five decades who often worked with the playwright Alan Ayckbourn…
Alan Strachan obituary
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‘Making sure everyone can see the plays’: can Hugh Jackman make theater less elitist?

www.silverguide.site – Together with Sonia Friedman and Ian Rickson, the Hollywood star has helped to create a new initiative aiming to provide high-quality theater for a low price…
‘Making sure everyone can see the plays’: can Hugh Jackman make theater less elitist?
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Don’t cry for me, all you boozers! The trouble with shifting Evita’s big balcony number from stage to street

www.silverguide.site – In the new Evita at the London Palladium, Rachel Zegler sings from the theatre’s actual balcony – meaning the big-paying audience doesn’t experience what passersby get for free. Could this gimmick catch on?…
Don’t cry for me, all you boozers! The trouble with shifting Evita’s big balcony number from stage to street
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Lovestuck review – superb dating disaster musical inspired by unfortunate toilet accident

www.silverguide.site – This show, based on a gone-viral Tinder date in which a woman tried to dispose of her poo unconventionally, tackles the perils of modern love with wit, humour and cracking songs…
Lovestuck review – superb dating disaster musical inspired by unfortunate toilet accident
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Letter: Gawn Grainger obituary

www.silverguide.site – Simon Treves writes: Gawn never lost his extraordinary humility and bonhomie…
Letter: Gawn Grainger obituary
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Paying Evita audience upset as Don’t Cry delivered offstage to West End passersby for free

www.silverguide.site – Paying audiences divided over staging in which they get video feed of Rachel Zegler singing on balcony to passersby…
Paying Evita audience upset as Don’t Cry delivered offstage to West End passersby for free
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Did the liberation of Africa start in Manchester? The biting play about a pivotal, forgotten moment

www.silverguide.site – It was a turning point in the push for African independence – and it took place in Chorlton-on-Medlock Town Hall. We meet the writer of a play about the fifth Pan-African Congress…
Did the liberation of Africa start in Manchester? The biting play about a pivotal, forgotten moment
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Theatrical hitmaker Justin Martin on Prima Facie’s follow-up: ‘It wrestles with how to bring up boys’

www.silverguide.site – The director of Jodie Comer’s tour de force is now staging Inter Alia, another legal drama by Suzie Miller. He talks about steering Stranger Things: The First Shadow, resisting the classics and his double act with Stephen Daldry…
Theatrical hitmaker Justin Martin on Prima Facie’s follow-up: ‘It wrestles with how to bring up boys’
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The play that changed my life: ‘Daniel Kaluuya winked at me and my mum – and said he acted better for us’

www.silverguide.site – A ringside seat at Roy Williams’ Sucker Punch inspired a teenager to switch career plans from law to theatre…
The play that changed my life: ‘Daniel Kaluuya winked at me and my mum – and said he acted better for us’
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The Cave review – dark-humoured tale of brothers’ emotional descent

www.silverguide.site – Tommy Tiernan and Aaron Monaghan are given comedic free rein as a pair of hapless, homeless siblings in Kevin Barry’s Beckettian take on rural dysfunction…
The Cave review – dark-humoured tale of brothers’ emotional descent
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Stereophonic review – 70s band saga is an extraordinary, electrifying odyssey

www.silverguide.site – This stunningly rendered tale of a band on the brink of creative genius or total meltdown is a triumph, with a standout cast and score…
Stereophonic review – 70s band saga is an extraordinary, electrifying odyssey
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Anna Karenina review – Tolstoy’s tragedy fizzes with theatrical brilliance

www.silverguide.site – Natalie Dormer is exceptional in the title role while Phillip Breen’s production reflects the scope of the novel’s ambition, though the story never fully reaches its emotional depths…
Anna Karenina review – Tolstoy’s tragedy fizzes with theatrical brilliance
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‘Completely captivated’: the rousing return of musicals’ dream ballets

www.silverguide.site – From Oklahoma! and Singin’ in the Rain to The Big Lebowski and Maestro, these showstoppers give a blissful hit of dance. A Rodgers and Hammerstein triple bill at Regent’s Park Open Air theatre reawakens the tradition…
‘Completely captivated’: the rousing return of musicals’ dream ballets
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Call Me Izzy review – Jean Smart is better than her one-woman show

www.silverguide.site – The Hacks star is magnetic but the show, where she plays a woman finding herself late in life, can’t match her…
Call Me Izzy review – Jean Smart is better than her one-woman show
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