Kicking and Screaming
Tangled Feet at Arts Centre Washington
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Philip's Top 5
Every week London editor Philip Fisher selects the top five plays in London.
- Matilda the Musical (Cambridge Theatre)
- Once (Phoenix Theatre, London)
- Dara (National Theatre (Lyttelton Theatre))
- The Hard Problem (National Theatre (Dorfman Theatre))
- Closer (Donmar Warehouse)
The Alternative Top 5
- The Book of Mormon (Prince of Wales Theatre, London)
- The Play That Goes Wrong (Duchess Theatre)
- Made in Dagenham (Adelphi Theatre)
- The Changeling (Sam Wanamaker Playhouse at Shakespeare’s Globe)
- Beautiful—The Carole King Musical (Aldwych Theatre)
Latest reviews
Antigone
Barbican and Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg, in association with Toneelgroep Amsterdam at Barbican Theatre
Milked
Pentabus Theatre at Soho Theatre
Uncle Vanya
West Yorkshire Playhouse at Quarry Theatre, West Yorkshire Playhouse
NOW / Shields of Bone / Land / A New Chimera
Fertile Ground at Bede Campus, Sunderland College, Sunderland
Radiant Vermin
Metal Rabbit and Supporting Wall at Tobacco Factory Theatres Bristol
The Picture of Doreen Gray
LipService at The Lowry
Dark Vanilla Jungle
Company Of Sirens at Chapter, Cardiff
Game
Almeida Theatre
All My Sons
Talawa Theatre Company at Salisbury Playhouse
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Charlie's Dark Angel
The Company of Strangers at Drayton Arms Theatre
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Bill Kenwright Limited at Crewe Lyceum Theatre
Sleeping Beauty
Vienna Festival Ballet at Theatre Royal Windsor
Calamity Jane
Watermill Theatre at Sunderland Empire
Blood Brothers
Bill Kenwright by arrangement with Bob Swash at Palace Theatre, Manchester
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Dance 'til Dawn
Adam Spiegel at New Victoria Theatre, Woking
Romeo and Juliet
Rasta Thomas Dance Company at Peacock Theatre
Seasons of Love
Martin Flitton at Theatre Royal, Drury Lane
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The Rise and Shine of Comrade Fiasco
Gate Theatre, Notting Hill
The Brontë Season (Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall)
Butterfly Psyche at The Everyman Theatre Cheltenham
The King's Speech
Birmingham Repertory Theatre in association with Chichester Festival Theatre at Birmingham REP
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Macbeth
David Shopland at Lost Theatre
The Life of Riley
Contemporary Irish Plays
Methuen Drama
Contemporary Scottish Plays
Methuen Drama
Contemporary English Plays
Methuen Drama
Dreaming in Code
2Faced Dance Company at Stanley & Audrey Burton Theatre
The Caucasian Chalk Circle
Lyceum Theatre Company at Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh
Lippy
Bush Moukarzel and Dead Centre at Young Vic
Harajuku Girls
Papergang Theatre at Finborough Theatre
Loserville
Union Theatre
Madam Butterfly
Raymond Gubbay at Royal Albert Hall
The Indian Queen
English National Opera at The Coliseum
While You Wait
BTG has partnered with Fuel Theatre on a series of podcasts called While You Wait.
- Waiting... Now by Paul Clark in collaboration with Bill Brewer
- Waiting... to be born by Lewis Gibson in collaboration with Debra Bick and Sarah Beake
- Waiting... in a hairdressers by Malika Booker in collaboration with Emily Butterworth
- Waiting... to come home by Caroline Horton in collaboration with Jennifer Wild
- Waiting... for a Cancer Diagnosis by Brian Lobel, in collaboration with Iain Perdue
- Waiting... are we? By The Company in collaboration with Jonathan Reades and Raphael Woolf
- Waiting... for a loved one to die by Rachel Mars in collaboration with Fliss Murtagh
- Waiting... for the inevitable by Toby Jones in collaboration with Peter Giese
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