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  • Dianna Agron: Yahoo Calls Her ‘McQueen’ Performance ‘F**king Devastating’

    Dianna Agron, probably best known for her role as a teenaged Quinn Fabray on the hit musical TV series Glee, received a scathing review from Yahoo for her role in McQueen, at London’s St. James Theatre. The review, in fact, went beyond scathing. It called her performance, ‘f**king devastating.’

    Unfortunately, it wasn’t just Yahoo giving Dianna Agron a less-than-stellar review.

    “But Glee star Dianna Agron is not good, I’m afraid. Her delivery is glib yet slow–I never believe the quick-fire rapport with McQueen, and when they get onto more profound or personal matters, her probing feels painfully crass rather than deep-and-meaningful. This performance is more blunt than a pair of old sewing scissors; it simply doesn’t cut it. Phillips’ meditations on love, death and beauty are left crudely over-exposed, and given Agron is at the heart of the play, it’s hard to get the real measure of McQueen,” the Independent writes.

    The Telegraph writes, “Another issue is Agron, best known as cheerleader-turned-teenage mum Quinn in hit TV show Glee, who never manages to elevate her character beyond a clothes-horse spouting psychobabble. She speaks in a strange, sing-song voice throughout, reciting rather than metabolizing her lines. It’s an uncomfortably stilted performance.”

    Nothing quite compares with Yahoo’s review of Dianna Agron, however.

    Will this be the end of stage performances for Dianna Agron? Will she return to the U.S. and seek out roles akin to an older version of her Glee character?

    Hopefully Dianna Agron’s time in McQueen finds her receiving better reviews in the weeks to come. She is set to appear in the West End production until the end of June.

  • Dianna Agron Critique Called ‘F–king Devastating” by Yahoo [Screenshot Pic]

    Dianna Agron gave it her best shot. The former Glee star took to the stage in London’s famed West End at St. James Theatre to show her stuff. The critics were not only not impressed, they were distressed.

    Not too many West End production criticisms make it to trending news in the United States. We laughed it up when the Duck Dynasty musical opened and folded in the same month. But this was a world premiere of James Phillips’ play McQueen. Phillips’ play City Stories has been running that the St. James since 2013, so the crowd appreciates his stuff.

    But Dianna Agron was declared out of her element. A few of the reviews for the show — or more specifically, for Dianna Agron — were vicious.

    “Another issue is Agron…who never manages to elevate her character beyond a clothes-horse spouting psychobabble. She speaks in a strange, sing-song voice throughout, reciting rather than metabolizing her lines.”

    “Dianna Agron falls into monotonous vocal rhythms as Dahlia.”

    “But Glee star Dianna Agron is not good, I’m afraid. Her delivery is glib yet slow – I never believe the quick-fire rapport with McQueen, and when they get onto more profound or personal matters, her probing feels painfully crass rather than deep-and-meaningful.”

    “That actor Stephen Wight should wring a tender portrait of a troubled man out of such crass writing, surrounded by tech and opposite the expressionless void of co-star Dianna Agron (“Glee”), is nothing short of a marvel.

    “Agron, however, is little more than a clothes horse. She plays up Dahlia’s numbness and ends up vocally monotone, facially inert and deeply unwatchable.”

    But even the Yahoo Trending Summary about reactions to the play were vicious. Perhaps the words “fucking devastating” made it past the Yahoo team members.

    Fortunately for Dianna Agron, the critics are outnumbered by the audience.

  • Dianna Agron and Nicholas Hoult: Are They Dating?

    Dianna Agron of Glee fame and Jennifer Lawrence’s ex-boyfriend Nicholas Hoult have been spotted out and about in London recently, causing many to speculate that the two might be a couple. The Sun reports that the two have even engaged in a bit of PDA.

    The actors have been to The Black Lion in Hammersmith and The Gallery in West Hampstead, preferring the cozy pubs over London’s nightclubs.

    A source tells People magazine that they didn’t see anything that would indicate the two are a couple.

    “They came in with each other and ordered some drinks. They sat down and had a conversation just like everyone else,” the source said of Dianna Agron and Nicholas Hoult. “They seemed like they had a nice time, but we didn’t see them kissing. But then, we were working, so we weren’t really looking.”

    “It was definitely them. Both of them are very beautiful, so it’s difficult to miss them. They weren’t flirting or kissing or anything. It wasn’t like they were a couple. Maybe they were just getting to know each other,” the source added.

    Back in February, Dianna Agron was seen at a pre-Oscars party with Hunger Games star Josh Hutcherson. Was she dating him, too?

    Nicholas Hoult is best known for his X-Men role, and will star in the upcoming Mad Max: Fury Road. Dianna Agron is in London where she’ll star next month in the James Phillips play McQueen.

    What do you think of Dianna Agron and Nicholas Hoult as a couple? Do you suppose they’re dating as one source hinted at, or just friends as another seemed to believe instead? And if they’re dating, what happened to Josh Hutcherson? Whatever they had didn’t seem to last too long.