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...Royal Court, London to October 12, royalcourttheatre.com Torch Song Matthew Needham is excellent as a drag queen looking for love in 1970s New York in this revival of Harvey Fierstein’s play....
...McOnie’s staging is wittily acted, led by an outstanding performance from Matthew Needham as the acerbic, achingly vulnerable Arnold, and it launches the Turbine, appropriately, with a burst of energy....
...It’s an outstanding, beautifully detailed performance, matched by Matthew Needham’s excellent, supple John, who moves like a cat and conveys a multitude of instincts warring within him....
...Silver returned with pianist Nolan Pearson and clarinettist John Bruce Yeh in Clint Needham’s On the Road, a nomadic romp pouring Copland’s Appalachian Spring into a Philip Glass dance piece....
...Matthew Needham and Simon Harrison play the two brothers, Brodie Ross and Jamie Wilkes the two servants, as the farcical mayhem unfolds....
...In a vigorous, fleet-footed and versatile ensemble, Matthew Needham stands out as the sardonic, sadistic Emperor Saturninus and Indira Varma as the sweetly manipulative Tamora, a woman driven to heartless...
...Beneath all the mayhem, the gawky Rafe (Matthew Needham) touchingly begins to blossom in confidence as he performs....
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