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Teeth ‘N’ Smiles at Duke of York’s review: why is everybody shouting?

2/5 Fifty-one years ago, this play must have seemed noisily thrilling and radical. Today, it looks coarse and lumpen

Evening Standard

Teeth ’n’ Smiles review – Self Esteem makes a mesmeric rock star but the drama doesn’t dazzle

Fifty years since David Hare’s play was first staged, Rebecca Lucy Taylor is inspired casting as a singer who refuses to go out without a bang

The Guardian - UK

‘It shook the plaster off the ceiling’: Self Esteem and David Hare on reviving rock romp Teeth ’n’ Smiles

It lit up the 1970s with its nihilistic tale of a hippie band imploding in a trail of drugs, booze and violence. What can it tell us about the music business today? Writer David Hare and wild-child rocker Self Esteem plug in

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Self Esteem reveals how music left her 'knackered and fed up'

Self Esteem opens up about her decision to explore acting in Teeth 'n' Smiles after music left her worn out.

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Self Esteem ‘worried’ privilege gap getting wider within music industry

Despite having launched her solo career nearly a decade ago, the singer, born Rebecca Lucy Taylor, only recently saw her career pick up.

Evening Standard

How to Make a Killing to Wu-Tang Clan: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead

Glen Powell indulges in some murder most profitable, and the influential rap collective arrive in the UK complete with a clutch of peerless classics

The Guardian - UK

Rebecca Lucy Taylor aka Self Esteem on her pivot from music to acting: ‘I felt a bit dead’

THE SATURDAY INTERVIEW: Her smash hit second album left the pop star also known as Self Esteem feeling the pressure to deliver an equally thrilling follow-up. Now, she’s playing a spiralling rock star in a major West End revival of David Hare's 1975 play ‘Teeth ’n’ Smiles’. She tells Jessie…

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'I didn't have any': Self Esteem took her stage name as a confidence-building move

Self Esteem - real name Rebecca Lucy Taylor - adopted her stage name as a method of giving herself confidence in her abilities.

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Stage might: the most exciting theatre shows hitting London in 2026

Sadie Sink, Billy Crudup, Chris Pine and Self Esteem are among the stars hitting London stages this forthcoming year

Evening Standard

‘It contains the greatest song ever about an ice cream truck’: readers’ favourite albums of 2025

The beautiful despair of Cameron Winter, the perfectly imperfect life of Lily Allen, the maximalist R&B of Dijon and more: here’s what our readers have had on heavy rotation

The Guardian - UK

Self Esteem to star as raging rock star in revival of David Hare’s Teeth ’n’ Smiles

Rebecca Lucy Taylor will play Maggie, a role originated by Helen Mirren, in a ‘landmark’ 50th anniversary production in London in March

The Guardian - UK

5 new podcasts to listen to this week

These are our top podcast picks.

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Self Esteem’s third album A Complicated Woman adds theatre to literate lyrical snark

3/5 Rebecca Lucy Taylor returns with a fiery new album exploring fame, dependent partners and empowerment

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Self Esteem: A Complicated Woman review – maximalist pop for an age of uncertainty

After her big breakthrough album and West End fame, Rebecca Lucy Taylor works through her worries in real time on her new LP – to fascinating and confusing effect

The Guardian - UK

Self Esteem review – straight outta Gilead

A triumphant staging by Rebecca Lucy Taylor of her new album, A Complicated Woman, is part artistic statement, part power pop club night

Evening Standard

Self Esteem at Duke of York’s Theatre review: a true one-of-a-kind

5/5 Rebecca Lucy Taylor raises the bar once more in this meticulously-crafted set piece

The Guardian - UK

‘Everything I wanted was offered to me. But I felt nothing’: singer Self Esteem on stardom, self-doubt, and making it in a man’s world

Her dreams came true when she went from indie land to lauded pop star. But Self Esteem – aka Rebecca Lucy Taylor – only ended up feeling ‘miserable, depressed and crazy’. Now she’s back with a new look and her best album yet

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The 25 most overrated albums ranked, from The Beatles’ Sgt Pepper to Nirvana’s In Utero

THE COUNTDOWN: Sometimes critical hysteria hits, and records are hoisted into positions of historic importance. The Independent’s music team have chosen the most undeserving – you’ll probably disagree with every single one...

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On my radar: Jack Rooke’s cultural highlights

The comedian and Big Boys writer picks a coming of age film, the queen of British comedy and the one musical he can stand

Evening Standard

Self Esteem: 'Men are terrified of me'

As she makes her West End debut in Cabaret, pop icon Rebecca Lucy Taylor talks patriarchy, fascism and theatre with Alexandra Jones

The Guardian - UK

Green Man festival review: Self Esteem crowns success, Julie Byrne triumphs and Devo rock the muck

After 21 years, this celebration of musical eclecticism and reverence in nature earns its devoted fanbase once again

Evening Standard

Jake Shears and Self Esteem take on leading roles in West End hit Cabaret

Scissor Sisters singer will play the Emcee while Self Esteem will make her theatrical debut as Sally Bowles in hit musical

The Guardian - UK

‘Raring to take on this challenge’: musicians Jake Shears and Self Esteem to star in Cabaret

The Scissor Sisters singer will play the Emcee while Self Esteem will make her theatrical debut as Sally Bowles in Rebecca Frecknall’s Olivier-winning musical

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Pop artists Self Esteem and Jake Shears join West End production of Cabaret

New cast members will make their debut in September

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