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Brixton Calling at Southwark Playhouse Borough review: a great London story, told with brio

3/5 This story of how the Brixton Academy was built has infectious charm and cocksure swagger

Evening Standard

The Frogs at Southwark Playhouse review: bursting with unfulfilled promise

3/5 Stephen Sondheim’s weirdest show gets its moment in the spotlight

Evening Standard

Fame, lust and drugs: Dorian Gray staged as a genderfluid rock musical

Alfie Friedman delves into the dark side to star in Linnie Reedman and Joe Evans’ Southwark Playhouse production

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Cable Street review – dazzling musical portrait of a community against fascism

Framing the battle within a 1930s romance and a 2024 walking tour, Adam Lenson’s production has big ballads, hip-hop-ish commentary and high camp

The Guardian - UK

Our weekend arts and culture picks, from Elton John to Dungeons & Dragons

Our guide to what to watch, read and listen to over the next few days

The Independent UK

The week in theatre: five stars for Guys & Dolls, plus Marjorie Prime and The Tragedy of Macbeth – review

The audience is swept along with the action in Nicholas Hytner’s thrillingly immersive new Guys and Dolls; Nancy Carroll and Anne Reid surf memory and identity; and Shakespeare’s witches multitask

The Guardian - UK

Here review – creepy and captivating kitchen-sink gothic

Clive Judd’s Papatango-winning play about a West Midlands family haunted by the past is unorthodox and invigorating

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Noor at Southwark Playhouse review: the real Noor deserves better

The dialogue in this misjudged play is full of melodrama and bathos, the acting mostly poor

Evening Standard

The Lesson review – Ionesco’s sinister comedy still shocks

Southwark Playhouse, LondonIt can feel exasperating at times but this well-performed 1951 drama offers a smart balance of discomfort and laughs

The Guardian - UK

Anyone Can Whistle review – Sondheim flop gets a blazing revival

This 1964 curiosity – whose original production closed on Broadway after nine performances – finds brilliant new contexts for its absurdist story

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