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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)
- 3 Winters (Lyttelton Theatre (National))
- Dara (National Theatre (Lyttelton Theatre))
- The Hard Problem (National Theatre (Dorfman Theatre))
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)
- King Charles III (Wyndham’s Theatre)
Latest reviews
Walking the Tightrope: The Tension Between Art and Politics
Offstage, in Association with Theatre Uncut at Theatre Delicatessen
Captain Morgan & The Sands Of Time
Tap Tap Theatre at The Vault Festival (London Waterloo)
Dogugaeshi
Basil Twist (USA) at Barbican Pit
Di and Viv and Rose
Hampstead Theatre at Vaudeville Theatre
What Happens To The Hope At The End Of The Evening
Contact Theatre, Manchester
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Dôkei
Dutch Courage Productions at Lion & Unicorn Theatre
32 Rue Vandenbranden
Peeping Tom (Belgium) at Barbican Theatre
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Classic Ghosts
Middle Ground Theatre Company at Grand Theatre, Blackpool
Y Tŵr (The Tower)
Invertigo at Chapter, Cardiff
Three Men in a Boat
Original and Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds at Salisbury Playhouse
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The Hard Problem
National Theatre (Dorfman Theatre)
That's Amore
Tmesis at The Unity Theatre, Liverpool
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The Ruling Class
Jamie Lloyd Productions at Trafalgar Studios 1
Love, Loss and Chianti
Thirty-20 Theatre in association with Chichester Festival Theatre at Minerva Theatre, Chichester
Hello/Goodbye
Hampstead Theatre
The Life and Loves of a Nobody
Third Angel & Sheffield Theatres at Nuffield Theatre, Lancaster University
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To Kill A Mockingbird
Regent's Park Theatre, Fiery Angel, Adam Spiegel and William Village present the Regent's Park Open Air Theatre production at Sheffield Lyceum
Dara
National Theatre (Lyttelton Theatre)
Rejoice in the Lamb / Burning / Nomadic / Madcap
Richard Alston Dance Company at Sadler's Wells
Oktobre
Purcell Room at Southbank Centre as part of London International Mime Festival
Roundelay
Stephen Joseph Theatre Company, Scarborough, in association with Guildford’s Yvonne Arnaud Theatre at Yvonne Arnaud Theatre Guildford
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Taken at Midnight
Chichester Festival Theatre at Theatre Royal Haymarket
East is East
Jamie Lloyd Productions at Opera House, Manchester
An Evening of Filth and Despair
Re:Play Festival, HOME Manchester at Number One, First Street, Manchester
Two Spirits
Re:Play Festival, HOME Manchester at Number One, First Street, Manchester
The Sisters / The Battling Ettricks
Cloud 9 at Low Lights Tavern, North Shields / Surf Cafe, Tynemouth / Comrades Club, Whitley Bay
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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