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The Recs' 5 Top Movies for December 🎞️

featured in The Recs Podcast (19mins)
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December 6, 2024 at 4:49 PM
One of our favourite moments from our interview with Rachel Leskovac is her describing her admiration of Barbara Dickson who she worked alongside in the original production of Spend Spend Spend!

Listen to the full interview in The Recs Podcast (24 minutes in): linktr.ee/therecsuk

#musicaltheatre
December 6, 2024 at 2:24 PM
Episode 1 of The Recs Podcast is available now 💥
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The December episode features an interview with brilliant Rachel Leskovac, the Summerhall scandal where artists are owed thousands and we discuss some reasons that Why Am I So Single? is closing early; and much more!

#podcast
December 5, 2024 at 4:15 PM
"Grit, glitz and a whole lot of heart"
Spend Spend Spend, unquestionably The Recs’ show of the year! There, we said it!
Read The Recs' ★★★★★-5 star review of Manchester Royal Exchange's bold revival: therecs.co.uk/spend-spend-...

#spendspendspend #Royalexchange #rachelleskovac #manchester #theatre
November 29, 2024 at 4:23 PM
"Politics may no longer be for her, but entertaining an audience with her tales and banter most definitely is"

Former MP Mhairi Black has announced she is taking her ★★★★★ 5-star show Politics Isn't For Me on tour! Read The Recs' review: therecs.co.uk/mhairi-black...

Tickets onsale tomorrow
November 27, 2024 at 12:01 PM
"That this tale of an unlikely friendship has become somewhat of a ‘hot ticket’, is testament to the thrill of watching two icons owning their stage."
Read The Recs' review of The Roommate on Broadway: therecs.co.uk/the-roommate/

#broadway
November 25, 2024 at 2:30 PM
"Let the train’s whistle be a siren’s song to draw audiences to this glorious piece of theatre"
Read The Recs' ★★★★★ 5-star review of The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, at Leeds Playhouse through the festive season, and then touring the UK: therecs.co.uk/the-lion-the...

#theatre #touring
November 25, 2024 at 1:29 PM
So proud of Linus and Joseph - a 2025 Gworld tour no less!
Gwyneth will Go Skiing in Utah (😬), off-Broadway and onto LA!
Then Diana: The Untold and Untrue Story will make di-comic visits to Asia, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and Europe!
Full details of @awkwardprods here: linktr.ee/awkwardprods
November 20, 2024 at 9:26 AM
"title of show is high octane and colourful"

Read The Recs' ★★★★★ 5-star review of this meta musical: therecs.co.uk/title-of-show/

#theatre #theatrereviews #southwarkplayhouse
November 19, 2024 at 3:41 PM
KENREX is transferring to Southwark Playhouse Borough on a wave of critical acclaim.

Jack Holden delivers a thrilling one-man true crime drama - based on events in 1981 Skidmore, Missouri where the "town bully" was shot dead in the presence of several townfolk but no-one was charged.
November 18, 2024 at 12:53 PM
Looking at the availability of Jamie Lloyd Co / Sigourney Weaver’s The Tempest, maybe Theatre Royal Drury Lane was never going to be the right venue? The Lane is going to feel miserable through to February
November 16, 2024 at 9:35 AM
Newly-released pic from the forthcoming movie, Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy - starring Renée Zellweger as Bridget and Leo Woodall as Roxster.
The film will be in cinemas on Valentine's Day (ahhh)
Are you looking forward to the fourth Briget movie?
#bridgetjones #films #reneezellweger #leowoodall
November 14, 2024 at 4:48 PM
Anne-Marie Duff, the woman of the moment, back on screen yesterday in season 2 of the brilliantly-twisty Bad Sisters.
Today, pictured in rehearsals for The Little Foxes at The Young Vic Theatre, playing Regina Hubbard (a role made famous by Bette Davis)
www.youngvic.org/whats-on/the...
November 14, 2024 at 3:37 PM