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Book Now! Theatre in August
CAROUSEL | Barbican Centre |15 June – 15 July
JUMPY | Duke of York’s | 16 Aug – 3 December
Read the reviews for Jumpy at the Royal Court
But what about the Bard?
KING LEAR | Almeida | 31 Aug – 3 Nov
And…
Theatre critics will be sunning themselves once again at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, being exposed to the old and the new, the good and the very bad. So far, it’s going to involve a famous monster, some male nudity, a Boy in a dress, a summer Panto and some Leather.
MISS HAVISHAM’S EXPECTATIONS, 1 Aug – 27 Aug
AND THE GIRLS IN THEIR SUNDAY DRESSES, 1 Aug – 27 Aug
APPOINTMENT WITH THE WICKERMAN, 1 Aug – 29 Aug
BOY IN A DRESS, 2 Aug – 26 Aug
LEATHER, 2 Aug – 27 Aug
THE ELEPHANT MAN, 3 Aug – 24 Aug
STRIP SEARCH, 3 Aug – 25 Aug
ANNA., 13 Aug – 18 Aug
BACK TO THE FUTURE – THE PANTOMIME, 21 Aug – 27 Aug
Take a look, there’s something for everyone.
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Book Now! Theatre in July
MASS – OBSERVATION | Almeida Theatre | 5 July – 28 July
PLAY WITHOUT WORDS | Sadler’s Wells |12 July – 12 Aug
THE FEAR OF BREATHING | Finborough Theatre | 17 July - 11 Aug
TEN BILLION | Royal Court Upstairs | 12 July – 18 July & 31 July – 1 Aug
THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME | National Theatre | 24 July – 12 Sept
SPAMALOT | Harold Pinter Theatre | 24 July – 9 Sept
THE DOCTOR’S DILEMNA | National Theatre | 17 July - 11 Sept
PHILADELPHIA HERE I COME | Donmar Warehouse |26 July - 22 Sept
And….
LONDON ROAD returns to the National Theatre, Olivier, 28 July – 6 Sept
If you missed it last time, here are the reviews
Any Shakespeare?
THE WINTER’S TALE | Hampstead Theatre | 3 July – 21 July
HENRY V | Hampstead Theatre | 5 July – 21 July
TIMON OF ATHENS | National Theatre | 10 July – 9 Sept
RICHARD III | Shakespeare’s Globe | from 14 July
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM | Royal Exchange, Manchester | 5 July – 4 Aug
Read reviews for its fun run at the Lyric Hammersmith in March
Click here to see our theatre calender for August.
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Book now: Theatre in June
THE ODYSSEY | the Albany | 7 Jun – 23 June
A full reading of Fitzgerald: GATZ | LIFT Festival at the Noel Coward Theatre | 8 June – 15 July
Julie Walters and Rory Kinnear: THE LAST OF THE HAUSSMANS | National Theatre | 12 Jun - 16 Sept
DEMOCRACY | Old Vic | 15 June – 14 July
FEAR | The Bush | 18 June – 14 July
THE DRAWER BOY | Finborough Theatre | 19 June – 14 July
EN ROUTE | Theatre Royal Stratford East | 26 June – 21 July
PROPHET | at the Gate | 14 June – 21 July
UTOPIA | Soho Theatre | 20 June – 14 July
A DOLLS HOUSE | Young Vic | 29 June - 26 July
DRUIDMURPHY x3 | Hampstead Theatre | 20 June – 30 June
THE MATCHBOX | Liverpool Everyman | 14 June – 7 July
WHITE RABBIT, RED RABBIT | the Gate | 17 June – 1 July
CROW | Greenwich Theatre | 18 June – 7 July
THE DARK SIDE OF LOVE | Part of LIFT Festival at the Roundhouse | 26 June – 8 July
BIRTHDAY | Royal Court Downstairs | 22 June – 4 August
A SOLDIER IN EVERY SON – RISE OF THE AZTEKS | Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon | 29 June – 28 July
…Any Shakespeare?
JULIUS CAESER | RST | 28 May – 7 July and transferring to Noel Coward Theatre | 8 Aug – 17 Sept
HENRY V | Shakespeare’s Globe | 7 June – 26 August
MACBETH | National Theatre of Scotland | 14 June – 30 June at Tramway, Glasgow
TAMING OF THE SHREW | Shakespeare’s Globe | 23 June – 13 Oct
Click here to see our theatre calendar for July.
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Book now: Theatre in May
ANTIGONE | National Theatre, Olivier | 23 May – 21 July
BOYS | Soho Theatre | 29 May – 16 June
THE PHYSICISTS | Donmar Warehouse | 31 May – 21 July
Click here to see our theatre calendar for June.
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Orange Prize 2012 Winner
Madeleine Miller was awarded the Orange Prize for Fiction yesterday for THE SONG OF ACHILLES
Click on the cover for the review roundup.
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Jay Rayner Mentions The Omnivore
Restaurant critic Jay Rayner is compiling an ebook of his own hatchet jobs. In the Observer this weekend, he explained why they’re so satisfying:
I cannot deny that writing a negative review is easier because bad experiences are simply funnier, the vocabulary of the awful much wider. Even so I rarely if ever seek them out. I don’t have to, given how often they happen to me. But I am also a consumer of bad reviews. If they are fun to write they are also fun to read – like this one by a young rising politician called Winston Churchill. Asked about his dinner the night before, he replied: “It would have been splendid… if the wine had been as cold as the soup, the beef as rare as the service, the brandy as old as the fish, and the maid as willing as the duchess.”
Read the full article here including the mention.
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Win Silver Tickets to The Hay Festival
From 31 May to 10 June, Hay-on-Wye will be transformed into what Bill Clinton called ‘The Woodstock of the Mind’ as writers and book-lovers from across the world descend on the small Brecon Beacons town. Martin Amis, David Starkey, Alan Hollinghurst, Germaine Greer, Jung Chang and Terry Pratchett are just some of the big names appearing this summer.
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