WORTH A LOOK?: ***
WHERE: Old Vic
WHEN: 29/1, runs to 19/3
Paranoid and egotistical master builder Halvard Solness (Ralph Fiennes) is going through a midlife crisis: he fears the young are seeking to do him out of a job yet is infatuated by a woman many years his junior.
WORTH A LOOK?: ***
WHERE: New London Theatre
WHEN: 14/1, runs to 12/3
This production is certainly an old campaigner of the West End and closes in five weeks after almost seven years at its current home.
WORTH A LOOK: ****
OUT: 29/1
40-year-old singer/songwriter Sia Furler has found great success writing for other people and this is a 12-song album of original songs intended for others.
WORTH A LOOK?: ****
WHERE: Cambridge Theatre
WHEN: 28/1 booking to 29/5
Our £40 tickets for this were bought via the Society of London Theatre’s Get Into London Theatre promotion which runs to 12 February, meaning we received £16 off each.
Ashton was shortlisted for a 2015 monsta for best theatre actress for Splendour at the Donmar and headlines here with Orange Is The New Black‘s Uzo Aduba in Jean Genet’s tale of the help for Downton Abbey‘s Laura Carmichael. Performed by the Jamie Lloyd Company, we’re expecting something spiky and stylish. (Pic via Facebook courtesy Jamie Lloyd Company)
WORTH A LOOK: *****
WHERE: Barbican
WHEN: 22/1
The Royal Shakespeare Company is marking the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death with this cycle of plays before an international tour.
WORTH A LOOK?: ****
OUT: 22/1
TRACKLIST: When You Are Young; Outsiders; No Tomorrow; Pale Snow; I Don’t Know How To Reach You; What I’m Trying To Tell You; Tightrope; Learning To Be; Like Kids; I Can’t Give Her What She Wants; When You Were Young; The Fur & The Feathers.
Suede premiered their new album and film in November with concerts at Camden Roundhouse which won our monsta for 2015’s best gig. Read More
WORTH A LOOK?: ****
Out in the UK: 22/1
A film about subprime loans and how a hedge fund manager (played by Christian Bale pictured) predicted the money market collapse directed by the brains behind Anchorman doesn’t sound especially Oscar-friendly.
WORTH A LOOK?: ***
WHERE: Garrick Theatre
WHEN: Last night 16/1
At the end of a week where the nation mourned the loss of 69-year-olds David Bowie and Alan Rickman, it’s comforting to see Dame Judi Dench up on stage at 82.
WORTH A LOOK?: ****
WHERE: Queen’s Theatre
WHEN: 6/1, runs to 10/16
Billed on its official website as the ‘world’s longest running musical’, is Les Misérables sprinting ahead, keeping pace or losing puff?
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