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Jodie Comer, a gen-Z Elle Woods and a giant swimming pool: The best theatre of 2022, ranked

The Independent’s theatre critics have chosen their top stage shows of 2022, a year in which fresh new writing and charming musicals reigned supreme

The Independent UK

George & Tammy review: A crooning, booze-soaked Nashville melodrama

Michael Shannon and Jessica Chastain play the country music couple in a show just as big, brash and unsubtle as its protagonists

The Independent UK

The Leader podcast: our new Theatre Review (Tammy Faye & Marvellous)

Coming to you from the stage of the Shaftesbury Theatre, currently home to musical & Juliet, we kick off our brand-new theatre show.

Evening Standard

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Elton John debuts new musical all about Tammy Faye Bakker ... because of course he did

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The Tammy Faye Bakker renaissance shows no signs of slowing down.

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The week in theatre: Tammy Faye; Hamlet; Marvellous – review

Katie Brayben nails the title role in a musical otherwise lacking edge, Billy Howle makes a princely Hamlet and an all-new West End theatre is launched by an amazing life

The Guardian - UK

Tammy Faye: A New Musical review – Elton John’s hymn to biblical kitsch

Songs belt out deliriously in this romp through rise and fall of the Bakker televangelists and latterday gay icons – so thick and fast the James Graham script and Jake Shears lyrics are sometimes overwhelmed by glitz

The Guardian - UK

Tammy Faye review: Camp, cutesy and hard to resist

Rupert Goold’s production at the Almeida about the televangelist, with music by Elton John, is gloriously OTT and packed with great performances

The Independent UK

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Tammy Faye at Almeida Theatre review: praise be, it’s a religious riot

This musical is a carnivalesque takedown of something rotten

Evening Standard

‘Fame, greed, redemption – the story is biblical’: behind the scenes of Tammy Faye

With songs by Elton John and Jake Shears and a script by James Graham, this new musical about the televangelist has a lot of talent behind it. The creative team explain how they brought her dramatic life story to the stage

The Guardian - UK

‘I want my work to be invisible’: Hollywood’s prosthetics maestros share their secrets

How makeup masters lay the foundation for award-worthy performances, from transforming Bradley Cooper into Bernstein to helping Brendan Fraser play a very obese man in The Whale

The Guardian - UK

Musical Tammy Faye tells gay icon’s life story with score by Elton John

Production opening in October portrays US evangelical star who challenged views on Aids and HIV

The Guardian - UK

Showalter on "The Dropout" & con artists

"The Dropout" director appeared on "Salon Talks" to discuss comedy and why Americans keep falling for hucksters

Salon

Oscars 2022: Jessica Chastain wins Best Actress for The Eyes of Tammy Faye

Nominees included Kristen Stewart, Penelope Cruz, Olivia Colman and Nicole Kidman

The Independent UK

Jessica Chastain wins best actress Oscar for The Eyes of Tammy Faye

Chastain’s performance as the televangelist’s wife who rebels against Christian conservatism takes the top acting prize

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Big winners and top attendees hang in the balance as Oscar night nears

Hollywood’s showpiece event returns to full capacity on Sunday – but will Coda spring a late surprise? And will everyone pass their Covid test?

The Independent UK

Jessica Chastain says she will skip the Oscars red carpet if necessary to support her Tammy Faye makeup team

Best Makeup and Hairstyling is one of the eight categories to be relegated from the live broadcast

Salon

Tammy Faye & my prayer warrior childhood

"This is what it was like at the church I went to every Sunday of my childhood," I tell my son

ABC News

Why American '80s televangelist Tammy Faye is admired by queer Australians today

With one interview, televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker sent shockwaves through evangelical Christian circles. Decades on, it's still impacting queer Australians.

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The Guardian - UK

The Eyes of Tammy Faye review – disappointingly straight biopic of a queer icon

Jessica Chastain and Andrew Garfield star as husband-and-wife media moguls the Bakkers in a film that frustratingly misunderstands its subjects

The Independent UK

The Eyes of Tammy Faye review: Jessica Chastain borders on the ridiculous in glitzy biopic

Oscar-primed drama is the latest attempt to rehabilitate the eccentric televangelist in the public eye

Evening Standard

The Eyes of Tammy Faye review: Jessica Chastain glitters in this big-haired kitschy-sink biopic

Fabulously watchable, this tale of the Ken and Barbie of televangelism is a revelation

The Guardian - UK

The Eyes of Tammy Faye review – Jessica Chastain is outrageously entertaining in Christian biopic

The actor is hilarious in a very enjoyable look at the rise and fall of the televangelist’s life with slippery husband Jim Bakker

ABC News

The Eyes of Tammy Faye: Jessica Chastain and Andrew Garfield play televangelist power couple in film that champions her perspective

The Eyes of Tammy Faye charts the rise and very public fall from grace of controversial power couple Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker — but its real focus is giving the latter her due.

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