She did it. We had our doubts about whether her Saturday Pyramid-headlining set would be uptempo enough but in the end it was the mix of revealing banter, heartfelt material and an exceptional voice which made the muddiest ever Glastonbury memorable for so much more than the weather.
Super is our album of the year so far and the Boys’ only 2016 UK dates are during their four-date Inner Sanctum residency at the Royal Opera House. We saw Rufus Wainwright there a while back and it’s a venue Neil and Chris were born to play. Tickets have sold out but we’d check here for returns.
WORTH A LOOK?: *****
WHERE: Old Red Lion Theatre
WHEN: 19/6 (matinee) runs to 25/6
Last year we saw former Labour leader Neil Kinnock in the audience watching an actor play him in the Arcola Theatre production of Gareth Thomas story Crouch Touch Pause Engage.
WORTH A LOOK?: ****
WHERE: Playhouse Theatre
WHEN: 17/6 runs to 29/10
Robert Icke won the 2016 best director Olivier for Oresteia and there’s much from that in this 2014 Almeida production which is back in the West End for another run.
WORTH A LOOK?: ***
OUT: 17/6
TRACKLIST: On My One; Gimme The Love; Love, Hope & Misery; The Love We’re Hoping For; Put Out The Fire; Never Wanna Dance; Bitter Salt; Ain’t No Rhyme; Livin’ Up Country; All That; Hold On You.
Releasing an album the week before Glastonbury is a trick that’s worked in recent years for Ed Sheeran and Florence and the Machine.
WORTH A LOOK?: ****
WHERE: Almeida
WHEN: 10/6, press night 16/6 runs to 6/8
Director Rupert Goold’s inventive take on this Shakespeare classic revolves around a trench centre stage, beginning and concluding in the modern day Leicester car park where Richard III‘s body was recently found.
WORTH A LOOK?: *****
WHERE: Prince Edward Theatre
WHEN: 6/6, press night 15/6 booking to 11/2/17
Summer’s biggest blockbuster shows are arguably this very panto remake of the 1992 Disney musical and Harry Potter and The Cursed Child which open within days and a stone’s throw of each other in London’s West End.
WORTH A LOOK?: ***
WHERE: National Theatre (Lyttelton Theatre)
WHEN: 4/6, press night 8/6 runs to 17/8
Written in 1952 the subject matter of Terence Rattigan’s The Deep Blue Sea seems daring even now.
By Carron Stacey
Last December, I was quite hungover, the night before having fallen asleep in a curry house after a long school term. I booked AC/DC tickets with trembling hands.
WORTH A LOOK?: ***
WHERE: Trafalgar Studios
WHEN: 3/6, runs to 13/8
Standing ovations at the end of West End shows are nothing new but the enthusiasm with which this audience appreciated this play from the pen of Hollywood star Jesse Eisenberg and in which he also stars surprised even us.
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