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Tuesday, 12 January 2010
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Wednesday, 30 December 2009
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FIVE BEST PLAYS
Greta Garbo Came to Donegal
(Tricycle Theatre, London)
Nicolas Kent’s atmospheric and beautifully acted and designed production of Frank McGuinness’s emotionally rich new play stars Caroline Lagerfelt as the Swedish actress Greta Garbo.
(020 7328 1000) to 20 Feb
Legally Blonde
(Savoy Theatre, London)
Sheridan Smith is brilliantly warm, winning, witty and all-round adorable as Elle, who proves not to be the airhead she is taken for when she goes to Harvard law schoolin this is ridiculously enjoyable musical.
(0870 871 7687) to 23 Oct
The Misanthrope
(Comedy Theatre, London)
Keira Knightley turns in a performance that is not only strikingly convincing but, at times, rather thrilling in its satiric aplomb, in an excellent revival of Martin Crimp’s take on Molière’s great courtly satire.
(0844 871 7627) to 13 Mar
Red
(Donmar Warehouse, London)
Alfred Molina stars as Mark Rothko in Michael Grandage’s brilliantly acted production of John Logan’s new two-hander, set in the Abstract Expressionist’s Manhattan studio in 1959, after he had been commissioned to provide a piece for the Four Seasons Restaurant in the iconic new Seagram Building.
(0870 060 6624) to 6 Feb
The Habit of Art
(NT: Lyttelton, London)
Alan Bennett’s multi-layered, hilariously provocative new play stars Richard Griffiths as the poet W H Auden and Alex Jennings as Benjamin Britten.
(020 7452 3000) to 6 Apr