25 h. ago PATRICK MARMION reviews Apex Predator: Yes the title sounds promising, but John Donnelly's muddled new play is as bloodless as its victims

John Donnelly's muddled new play, ostensibly the tale of a young mother suffering from severe post-natal depression , turns into a one-woman, blood-sucking revenge mission against toxic masculinity

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61 h. ago Sophie Melville and Laura Whitmore star in Apex Predator's entertaining take on London vampires

Bloodsuckers, societal breakdown and psychological horror all feature in this comic-gothic drama

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8 d. ago PATRICK MARMION reviews North By Northwest and Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Alfred Hitchcock is suddenly flavour of the month. But his 1959 classic North By Northwest really ought to be unstageable.

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2 w. ago PATRICK MARMION reviews Dear England at the National Theatre: Southgate's super sub scores a winner (despite Lineker's cheesy gags)

Football's come home again to the National Theatre with James Graham's funny, sunny and crowd-pleasing homage to the newly knighted Gareth Southgate.

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3 w. ago Keir Starmer is having his chainsaw moment – but all he will slash is democracy | Simon Jenkins

The PM sounds like Elon Musk when promising to fight the ‘blockers’, but his government’s plans will weaken the link between peoples and politicsEvery new prime minister has an Elon Musk moment. A sudden attack of frustration leads to a burst of machismo, a chainsaw response. The system stinks. Slash the bureaucrats. Smash the machine.Thatcher had her “subversives”, Tony Blair his “scars on my back”, David Cameron his “enemies of enterprise”. Now Sir Keir Starmer claims to be haunted by the blockers, checkers, regulators, bloaters. All are ganging up against the cry of his new friend, Donald Trump, to grow, baby, grow. So get going, chainsaw, do your job.Simon Jenkins is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...

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3 w. ago PATRICK MARMION reviews Clueless at the Trafalgar Theatre: Big

From Legally Blonde to Heathers and Mean Girls, musicalisations of teenage romcoms can seem two a penny these days. But this staging (pictured) of the 1995 movie Clueless still has plenty to sing about.

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4 w. ago Lady Gaga lost her edge – her new album needs to bring it back

The star has spent a decade in a jazz and soft-rock haze, her newer pop efforts oddly anonymous for an artist once so electrifying. Her new album ‘Mayhem’ does feel like a return to form – but it’s her recent comments on her regained confidence as an artist that sound most promising, writes Adam White

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