GEOFF BOTTOMS relishes a profoundly human portrait of a family as it evolves across 55 years in Sheffield
Great acting let down by poor script
PAUL DONOVAN applauds an excellently crafted new musical that explores the life and death of Ruth Ellis
PAUL DONOVAN is tickled by the excruciating take-downs of one of the funniest, wittiest, political writers around.
RON JACOBS points out, via a transcription of Kissinger’s secret recordings, that Trump could never have existed without Nixon and Kissinger
ELLIS RAE is persuaded that the advantages of the ‘talking cure’ are superior to the treatment of mental illness with drugs
JOHN GREEN, MICHAL BONCZA and BELLA KATZ review The Good Boy, Broken English, and Don't Be Prey
Teddy
The Vaults
London
THIS revival of Teddy manages to be less than the sum of its parts.
There’s some extraordinary talent and promise in the musical, set in the world of 1950s Teds, replete with teenage angst and energy.
Molly Chesworth, as the slick and spiky Josie, is incandescent.
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