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★★Beware The Boline
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★★Beware The Boline
Simon Ward reviews The Boline Inn at the Hope Theatre For anyone who might be unaware, a boline is a white-handled ritual knife used in Wicca. So, much like The Slaughtered Lamb pub in the 1981 com…
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★★★★Savagely Funny
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★★★★Savagely Funny
Simon Ward reviews Wilder! at the Etcetera Theatre This barely categorisable play written by its leading actors Thomas Billiouw and Dany Van Brabant deserves to be seen by a wider audience than can…
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28 days ago
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★★★★★Humbug Free Zone
Simon Ward reviews The Christmas Thing at the Seven Dials Playhouse This is an utterly gleeful slice of Christmas slapstick fun, irresistibly written, directed and hosted by double act Tom Clarkson…
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about 1 month ago
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★★★Who Wants To Live Forever?
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★★★Who Wants To Live Forever?
Simon Ward reviews Continuity at The Cockpit Theatre As a technology entrepreneur, we can take it that the insights that David Sear shares in this dystopian satirical black comedy are based on conc…
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about 2 months ago
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★★★★Murder By The Stage Door
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★★★★Murder By The Stage Door
Simon Ward reviews Kill For The Part at the Canal Cafe Theatre Written and directed by Lucy Blunt, who also plays Olivia/Eleanor Deluse, this is a witty and beguiling romp which interleaves a class…
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about 2 months ago
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★★Dead End Street
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★★Dead End Street
Simon Ward reviews Old Fat F**k Up at the Riverside Studios Olly Hawes has set up camp at the Riverside Studios – as well as this show, in a week or so, he will be alternating performances wi…
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about 2 months ago
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★★★★★Anything But Grim Up North
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★★★★★Anything But Grim Up North
Simon Ward reviews Gwenda’s Garage:The Musical at the Southwark Playhouse Borough Following a successful run at the Tanya Moiseiwitsch Playhouse in Sheffield, this is the London premiere of a…
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2 months ago
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★★★Grindr's Not A Dating App
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★★★Grindr’s Not A Dating App
Simon Ward reviews Daddy’s First Gay Date at the Seven Dials Playhouse Rather touchingly listed on the venue’s website as ‘Writer, Producer and Ben’ this show is clearly Sam…
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2 months ago
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★★Ye Gods
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★★Ye Gods
Simon Ward reviews We’ll burn that bridge when we get to it: and I guess that’s now at the Lion and Unicorn Theatre Sometimes playwrights decide to lean into the idea of Fringe and give…
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3 months ago
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★★★★Waiting for God
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★★★★Waiting for God
Simon Ward reviews God Don’t Live On A Council Estate at the Hen and Chickens Theatre Dean Stalham’s 2010 play, God Don’t Live On A Council Estate, directed here by Jonathan Linsl…
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3 months ago
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★★★★★Who Is Afraid of Kayleigh Grey?
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★★★★★Who Is Afraid of Kayleigh Grey?
Simon Ward reviews Monster at the Seven Dials Playhouse Abigail Hood’s play, Monster, is set over a twenty year period in Glasgow. It centres on the lives of two girls, teenagers when we firs…
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3 months ago
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★★★★Whose Game Is It Anyway?
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★★★★Whose Game Is It Anyway?
Simon Ward reviews The Pitch at Theatre503 Philip Catherwood’s new play, directed by Thea Mayeux, is not the first to investigate the thorny issue of land and its use on the island of Ireland…
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3 months ago
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★★Not With A Buzz But A Whimper
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★★Not With A Buzz But A Whimper
Simon Ward reviews BuzzFest at the Wanstead Curtain Theatre As chestnuts are falling from the trees and an autumnal chill is in the air, writer-director Marissa Landy’s ode to the summer musi…
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4 months ago
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★★★Blue Sunday
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★★★Blue Sunday
Simon Ward reviews Dagmarr’s Dimanche at the Crazy Coqs The louche 1930s glamour of the Crazy Coqs in the Brasserie Zédel is arguably the best place in London to experience a real cabaret experienc…
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4 months ago
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★★★★A Sepia-Tinged Dream
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★★★★A Sepia-Tinged Dream
Simon Ward reviews A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Southwark Playhouse Borough Since the turn of the millennium, Southwark Playhouse has been re-imagining the great works of the Shakespearea…
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4 months ago
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★★★★Where the laughter never stops
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★★★★Where the laughter never stops
Simon Ward reviews Lorna Rose Treen: 24 Hour Diner People at the Soho Theatre As the autumnal gloom envelops tube strike-ridden London, it is an absolute delight to escape into the garish world of …
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4 months ago
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★★★Where Two Worlds Collide
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★★★Where Two Worlds Collide
Simon Ward reviews Tango in Silk at the Etcetera Theatre The first thing to note about Xi Liu’s Tango in Silk dance piece is that it is very short, perhaps ten minutes long. It is perhaps bes…
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4 months ago
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★★★Star-Crossed Comic Caper
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★★★Star-Crossed Comic Caper
Simon Ward reviews Romeo and Juliet – The Hate Story at the Hen and Chickens Theatre Directed by Annie Araba, this is the debut play of Brazilian writer-performer-producer Lucas Luan Lima. He…
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4 months ago
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★★★★★Time Gentlemen Please
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★★★★★Time Gentlemen Please
Simon Ward reviews TWO at the Greenwich Theatre For this revival of Jim Cartwright’s 1989 play, the Greenwich Theatre has been transformed into a pub of that era, The Clock and Compass, with …
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4 months ago
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★★★★Zany Zombie Delirium
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★★★★Zany Zombie Delirium
Simon Ward reviews Improv The Dead at The Bridewell Theatre One of the joys of a Fringe festival is, of course, to move out of one’s comfort zone and try out something a bit different. I conf…
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4 months ago
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★★★★The Long Goodbye
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★★★★The Long Goodbye
Simon Ward reviews Fickle Eulogy at the Hope Theatre, 207 Upper Street, London N1 1RL Debuting at the Edinburgh Fringe last year, Nikol Kollars’s devastating solo show, directed by Javier Gal…
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5 months ago
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★★★Return To Sender
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★★★Return To Sender
Simon Ward reviews Don’t Shoot The Messenger at the Lion and Unicorn Theatre Co-writers Daniel Camou and Sam Plumbe have billed their new Camden Fringe show as ‘an office comedy of Shak…
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5 months ago
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★★★Too Many Years of Hurt
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★★★Too Many Years of Hurt
Simon Ward reviews Coming Home at The Hope Theatre As we enter the soundtrack swells with the now-familiar England football anthems – Three Lions, of course, along with Vindaloo and Sweet Car…
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5 months ago
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★★★★Soft Underbelly
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★★★★Soft Underbelly
Simon Ward reviews TURTLE: A Story About Christ, Cancer, Kinks, and Christmas at the Aces & Eights Theatre Although the bread-and-butter review circuit consists of rooms above pubs, there are a…
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5 months ago
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★★★Love in Shakespeare
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★★★Love in Shakespeare
Simon Ward reviews LIV:Sapphic Shakespeare at the Old Red Lion Theatre Showing as part of the Camden Fringe, which is running at various venues around London until 24th August, this is clearly a la…
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5 months ago
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★★Lost on the Trail
Simon Ward reviews Bloody Bloody Kansas at the Hen and Chickens Theatre Photo credit – Central Standard Theatre Conceived, written and directed by Heidi Van, who also plays the roles of Ma Be…
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5 months ago
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★★★Healing Powers
Simon Ward reviews All These Pretty Things at the Etcetera Theatre As we enter the small room above the Oxford Arms, Tracey Yarad is already in meditational pose, wrapped in a blanket and with Om S…
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5 months ago
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★★★★Climb Every Mountain
Simon Ward reviews in defence of adventurous mothers at The Glitch As we descend into the underground world of the Glitch we find ourselves in a climbing centre – two large pillars with the t…
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5 months ago
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5 months ago
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★★★★Call of the Wild
Simon Ward reviews Brixton Calling at the Southwark Playhouse Borough Just over ten years ago, Simon Parkes wrote his memoir Live At The Brixton Academy describing the incredible true story of how …
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5 months ago
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★★★★Friendship, Interrupted
Simon Ward reviews 1.17am, or Until The Words Run Out at Theatre503 Running as part of the Summer Shorts season currently playing at Theatre503, Zoe Hunter Gordon’s new play is an utterly com…
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6 months ago
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★★★Edge of Reason
Simon Ward reviews Outside Voice at the Soho Poly Theatre Tucked away in the West End side streets, and just around the corner from the BBC, this location has been a hub for arts activities since a…
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6 months ago
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★★★★Vin Rouge et Café Noir
Simon Ward reviews I Love You Michael, Love Nadine at the Old Red Lion Theatre This new play by Megan Marszal, who also plays the role of Cece, is steeped in the louche underworld of 1980s Paris to…
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7 months ago
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★★★★★A Love Letter To Uncle Sam
Simon Ward reviews Kieran Hodgson:Voice of America at the Soho Theatre Fans of BBC 2 comedy Two Doors Down will already be familiar with Kieran Hodgson but he was a new face for me, although the fa…
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7 months ago
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★★★★White Knuckle Shakespeare
Simon Ward reviews Julius Caesar at the Hen and Chickens Theatre In this urgent and compelling interpretation of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, Anna Blackburn has created a nerve-shredding prod…
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7 months ago
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★★★Save A Prayer
Simon Ward reviews Ruthless – the Survival of Ruth Madoff at the Arches Lane Theatre Roger Steinmann’s play is a semi-biographical but fictionalised account of Ruth Madoff (Emily Swain)…
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7 months ago
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★★★Dead Funny
Simon Ward reviews Grave Mistake at the Hope Theatre Matthew Ballantyne and Toby Hampton’s new play is a Joe Orton-esque farce set in a funeral home. Burke and Sons has been a family business…
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7 months ago
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★★Overdone Down Under
Simon Ward reviews Mrs T Foresees at the Lion & Unicorn Theatre Centred around the life story and formidable presence of Irish clairvoyant Mrs Molly Tolpuddle (compellingly played by Carol Tagg…
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7 months ago
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★★★★Oh Boy!
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★★★★Oh Boy!
Simon Ward reviews Derry Boys at Theatre503 This piece comes closest to my own personal experience of anything I have reviewed in all my years writing for The Peg. Though I wasn’t born there,…
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7 months ago
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★★★★★There's A Reason It's Called A Hide
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★★★★★There’s A Reason It’s Called A Hide
Simon Ward reviews The Sociable Plover at the Old Red Lion Theatre The first thing to strike you is the set (designed by Jack Valentine) . The entire room has been transformed into a bird watchers&…
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8 months ago
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★★★★Just When You Thought The Pavement Was Safe...
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★★★★Just When You Thought The Pavement Was Safe…
Simon Ward reviews Pavement Sharks at the Canal Cafe Theatre For anyone unfamiliar with the venue, it nestles above a rather good pub called the Bridge House in Little Venice, a very pleasant strol…
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8 months ago
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★★★★Laughter On The Edge
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★★★★Laughter On The Edge
Simon Ward reviews Overshare at the Greenwich Theatre At one point during this hectic cavalcade of a show, creator-writer-performer-producer Eleanor Hill pauses for a beat to wonder whether her las…
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8 months ago
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★★★★Bubbling Over
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★★★★Bubbling Over
Simon Ward reviews Bubble Schmeisis at the Soho Theatre Nick Cassenbaum describes his work as ‘simultaneously unforgivingly Jewish and undeniably British’. As if to underline the point,…
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8 months ago
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★★★Absurdist Origami
Simon Ward reviews Paper Swans at the Soho Theatre This is the first full-length play by Vyte Garriga, a Lithuanian actress, writer and physical theatre performer. As we enter the theatre, we see a…
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8 months ago
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★★★Chekhovian Summer Blues
Simon Ward reviews The Summer After Dad Died at the Hen and Chickens Theatre Written and directed by Danish playwright and actor Sarah Majland, The Summer After Dad Died is set in Denmark in the ho…
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8 months ago
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★★★★ Gallows Humour
Simon Ward reviews Dead Mom Play at the Union Theatre I have yet to decide how I feel about on the use of trigger warnings. There are the well-worn arguments about the lengthy list pretty much any …
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9 months ago
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★★★★Side By Side-Splitting
Simon Ward reviews Summoning Sondheim at The Glitch Theatre This is a new venue for me. It is a tiny cafe-bar and I am sure that we were not the only patrons to have to ask the friendly staff wheth…
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9 months ago
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★★★★Who Watches The Watchers?
Simon Ward reviews Moderation at the Hope Theatre Making its UK premiere at the Hope, Kevin Kautzman’s searingly topical new play, Moderation is the darkest of dark comedies. It is unmistakab…
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10 months ago
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★★Care Bear Blues
Simon Ward reviews Mixed Sex at the Lion and Unicorn Theatre Writer Samuel Normington (who also co-directs and stars as Sam) recounts how this, his first full-length play, began in lockdown as he j…
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★★★Love Will Tear Us Apart
Simon Ward reviews Tell Me You’ll Think About It at the Hen and Chickens Theatre In Lyndsey Ruiz’s debut play Tell Me You’ll Think About It , in which she also stars, a young coup…
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10 months ago
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