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Romeo and Juliet review: A sometimes passionate, sometimes awkward retelling

Romeo and Juliet review: A sometimes passionate, sometimes awkward retelling

Nicholai La Barrie’s Romeo and Juliet, though unpolished, clearly claimed the heart of Manchester’s audience
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In conversation with Nicholai La Barrie: Questioning what makes us human with ‘Romeo and Juliet’

In conversation with Nicholai La Barrie: Questioning what makes us human with ‘Romeo and Juliet’

“My life as an artist is a quest to discover the truth behind what makes us human and what binds us and hopefully at some point, I/we will get an answer.” – Nicholai La Barrie
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Review: Matthew Bourne’s Romeo + Juliet

Review: Matthew Bourne’s Romeo + Juliet

Matthew Bourne’s Romeo + Juliet is a radical, refreshing and roaring retelling of the most iconic love story of all time. Bourne ditches his usual splendour and creates a production that is minimal and clinical – but just as phenomenal.
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The Lowry invites you over for a game of Noughts & Crosses

The Lowry invites you over for a game of Noughts & Crosses

Noughts & Crosses, the stage adaptation of Malorie Blackman’s novel of the same name, is visiting The Lowry as part of its second UK tour
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Letters to Juliet: My time as a secretary of Juliet

Letters to Juliet: My time as a secretary of Juliet

Rom coms are notoriously unrealistic, but Carina Low followed in the footsteps of Amanda Seyfried in Letters to Juliet
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Review: & Juliet

Review: & Juliet

Theatre Editor Jay Darcy reviews & Juliet, a jukebox musical reimagining Romeo & Juliet, ahead of its West End transfer
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Interview with the cast of & Juliet

Interview with the cast of & Juliet

Theatre Editor Jay Darcy interviews the main cast of brand-new jukebox musical & Juliet, ahead of its world premiere in Manchester
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Review: Birmingham Royal Ballet’s Romeo and Juliet

The Birmingham Royal Ballet host their 2016 Shakespeare celebration at Salford’s Lowry Theatre
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Review: Romeo and Juliet

A story of more woe – Richard Smith reviews the first HOME production and old classic Romeo and Juliet.
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Top 5: Storms on screen

 Our good nation weathered quite a storm a fortnight ago, but it’s not over yet. Get ready to batten down the proverbial hatches once more because this list features some of the worst weather ever seen on the silver screen.   5. The Day After Tomorrow (2004) One of the more believable and well-acted disaster […]
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“Gatsby? What Gatsby?”

Cannes prepares to spend the summer under the red white and blue
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The best thing/worst thing I’ve ever seen on stage

Hannah Lawrence gives us the best and worst of her theatre experiences
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The best/worst thing I’ve ever seen on stage

Rosie Panter tells us the best and the worst performance that she’s ever seen on stage
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Mercurial Muppets

Three different perspectives on the Contact Theatre’s production of Romeo and Juliet.
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Love’s Happy Ending

With divorce rates rising and marriage no longer being the the ‘Happy Ever After’ it once was,
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