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- Heather Bloom
Created from Robert Brown’s extensive catalogue of songs written for other musicals and events, Songs for a New World has no direct throughline but still appears as a strongly connected piece.
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- Jason Whyte
Somewhat mischievously, the show is not what it might seem from its blurb or promo video.
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- Jason Whyte
The star’s six-decade-long career, and varied achievements along the way, provide an abundance of material for consideration.
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- Heather Bloom
Seeing a script performed for the first time is one thing, but seeing an actor react to that script in real time for the first time is an entirely different experience all together.
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- Doug Knight
Sigrid Thornton is a class act and powerfully delivers a mother straddling indifference, acceptability and reluctant responsibility.
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- Heather Bloom
Difficult to define but an absolute joy to watch, Hedwig and the Angry Inch is wonderfully entertaining.
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- Heather Bloom
It’s hard to watch with 2025 vision; it’s harder still to be reminded that women are still overwhelmingly not believed when it comes to acts of abuse and that their pain is misdiagnosed or undervalued.
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- Stephanie Glickman
It’s all about the unadulterated physicality and the amazing things bodies can do together and sometimes on their own. No gags or bells and whistles here.
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