new musicals
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Review: ‘Two Strangers Carry A Cake Across New York’ at the Criterion Theatre – ‘tender and vivid’
This review contains mild spoilers. Two Strangers Carry a Cake Across New York is five years old; initially called The Season, it debuted in 2019, with a new production starting at The Kiln Theatre four years later. It then transferred to The Criterion at the beginning of 2024, with both runs having been extended due to demand.
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Review: ‘Starter for Ten’ at the Bristol Old Vic – ‘enormous amounts of talent [but] needs tightening up’
This review contains spoilers for Starter for Ten. Thumbing through the student newspaper one afternoon in the lounge of my university’s 1960s arts library, I was caught by a sidebar. Five general knowledge questions. They were inscrutable. At the bottom there was a message: ‘If you’ve answered more than three of these questions correctly, consider getting in touch with us – you could be right for our University Challenge team!’
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Review: ‘Groundhog Day’ at the Old Vic – ‘brilliantly realised’
Like an idiot, I missed Groundhog Day when it initially premiered at the Old Vic in 2016. In what seemed like the blink of an eye, it had won several Olivier awards, left London, and transferred to Broadway – where it was nominated for seven Tonys but inexplicably didn’t win any before closing in 2017.