Sunday, September 25, 2011
I'm becoming something of a Cirque du Soleil junky. A regular dose still blowing my mind however formulaic their productions have become. "Zarkana" is very much par for the course …
SOURCE: The Tyro Theatre Critic at 06:53PMThursday, September 22, 2011
This production of Lully's "Atys" has been much lauded by just about everyone and it's hard to deny it is a spectacularly beautiful evening; filled with gorgeous music, fabulous costumes and…
SOURCE: The Tyro Theatre Critic at 09:08PMTuesday, September 20, 2011
For waspish, caustic wit you couldn't do much better than Diane in Douglas Carter Beane's enormously funny "The Little Dog Laughed". She is the lynch pin of this hysterical, but not altogeth…
SOURCE: The Tyro Theatre Critic at 05:57PMSunday, September 18, 2011
This should have been awful. An hour and a half of a cappella strung together by end of the pier, comedy schtick. Heck, just looking at the Voca People brings me out in hives. The first…
SOURCE: The Tyro Theatre Critic at 06:46PMFriday, September 16, 2011
The Rattigan fever seems to have crossed the pond with this revival of "Man and Boy". A reworked version of the Maria Aitken's West End staging from 2004, when it had David Suchet in the cen…
SOURCE: The Tyro Theatre Critic at 05:58PMTuesday, September 13, 2011
I don't really associate the New York City Ballet (NYCB) with big, full length works and off the back of their "Swan Lake", that's probably a good thing. Peter Martins's production is not a …
SOURCE: The Tyro Theatre Critic at 06:00PMSaturday, September 10, 2011
I'm steadily scoping out the various quirky venues around New York, they are many, but thanks to a recommendation from one of my Uni Professors: I've found my new Royal Court. Play…
SOURCE: The Tyro Theatre Critic at 05:00PMThursday, September 1, 2011
Retro or derivative? I fear "Catch Me If You Can" might well be the most painfully conventional and unoriginal new piece of musical theatre I've ever seen. Closing this weekend, Broadway wil…
SOURCE: The Tyro Theatre Critic at 02:00PMTuesday, August 30, 2011
Two "Master Class" production inside of a year, it's like Christmas come early for the opera/theatre lover. This Broadway revival is a plusher affair than the low key UK Touring production b…
SOURCE: The Tyro Theatre Critic at 11:00AMMonday, August 29, 2011
I wasn't lucky enough to catch the original Broadway production of "Rent". I've seen it in a variety of forms, multiple student productions and an ill fated West End reworking, but none have…
SOURCE: The Tyro Theatre Critic at 03:00PMTuesday, August 23, 2011
I knew little of "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying" before entering but it rapidly dawned on me this is just "Promises, Promises" with a bit more bounce. Fun and frivolous wi…
SOURCE: The Tyro Theatre Critic at 10:34PMSunday, August 21, 2011
With the summer months holding few operatic delights, especially now I've been ripped away from Glyndebourne, I jumped at the chance to catch Dell'Arte Opera Ensemble's production of "Die Za…
SOURCE: The Tyro Theatre Critic at 07:52PMPunchdrunk are a company like few others, their conjured worlds are breathtakingly beautiful. They are also a company who haven't managed to much change in the last few years. The strengths …
SOURCE: The Tyro Theatre Critic at 02:29AMWednesday, August 17, 2011
Nat Cassidy's adaptation of Dostoyevsky's "The Eternal Husband", currently running as part of FringeNYC, has pretty much everything. Moments of sheer terror mixed with darkly funny humour; a…
SOURCE: The Tyro Theatre Critic at 06:02PMMonday, August 15, 2011
I've never been strong on fringe theatre but with FringeNYC, the New York International Fringe Festival, happening practically on my new door step, I jumped at the chance to catch a few of t…
SOURCE: The Tyro Theatre Critic at 09:35PMSaturday, August 13, 2011
First up in my New York adventure came "Billy Elliot", not an exactly adventurous choice it must be said. I saw it when it was new, years ago, but having not been back since, it's now an alm…
SOURCE: The Tyro Theatre Critic at 10:42PMMonday, August 1, 2011
Little did I expect when I wrote my last self-indulgent "about me" type post that less than two years later I'd be uprooting myself from London and shipping myself off to New York. That's li…
SOURCE: The Tyro Theatre Critic at 11:34AMTuesday, July 26, 2011
For the final piece of theatre I'll be catching in London for a good long while, I can't think of a better show than "One Man, Two Guvnors". Only the British could come up with something qui…
SOURCE: The Tyro Theatre Critic at 07:03PMMonday, July 25, 2011
The Mariinsky "Swan Lake" is a museum piece. Unfortunately rather a moth eaten one. Opening their fiftieth anniversary tour, you'd think they could have tried a bit harder.The production is …
SOURCE: The Tyro Theatre Critic at 06:27PMSunday, July 24, 2011
The English National Ballet have done themselves proud. This can't have been an easy sell but all credit to them for trying. An evening of three Roland Petit ballets all of which produced dr…
SOURCE: The Tyro Theatre Critic at 01:43PMSaturday, July 23, 2011
After their gobsmackingly brilliant "A Midsummer Night's Dream", I came dashing back for Iris Theatre's "Die Fledermaus". Despite many of the cast's best efforts I came away rather disappoin…
SOURCE: The Tyro Theatre Critic at 06:19PMThursday, July 21, 2011
Insanely smart tutor terrifying students. It's like a flash-back to the worst bits of my time at university. Simon Gray's superb "Butley" is a play whose humour only disguises the sadness at…
SOURCE: The Tyro Theatre Critic at 06:10PMFilm-to-stage musicals have seldom come with such theatrically vivid productions. Matthew Warchus and his team have put together a staging of some brilliance. It's a pity the musical itself …
SOURCE: The Tyro Theatre Critic at 06:10PMWednesday, July 20, 2011
An adaptation of Kafka's "In the Penal Colony" performed entirely in Arabic. I can see why this wasn't a hot ticket. A pity really as Shiber Hur's production is terrific. In some regards its…
SOURCE: The Tyro Theatre Critic at 12:38PMTuesday, July 19, 2011
I haven't been more bemused since "Xanadu". "Priscilla, Queen of the Desert" is a relentless wave of outrageous costumes, sets and jokes. The score is a pile up of pop hits from the 60s, 70s…
SOURCE: The Tyro Theatre Critic at 06:11PMMonday, July 18, 2011
With virtually zero advertising I very nearly missed the National's latest trendy venture: "Double Feature in the Paintframe". It's lucky I didn't as having caught the first preview of the f…
SOURCE: The Tyro Theatre Critic at 06:46PMSunday, July 17, 2011
Wet to the bone and shivering, I should have hated every minute of this. Outdoor promenade theatre is always a gamble but no matter what the weather (and believe me, I struck the worst of it…
SOURCE: The Tyro Theatre Critic at 06:05PMClosing off their season The Royal Opera have managed to make all that came before instantly forgotten. "Tosca" as sung by Angela Gheorghiu, Jonas Kaufmann and Bryn Terfel under the baton of…
SOURCE: The Tyro Theatre Critic at 06:05PMFriday, July 15, 2011
The return of Hofesh Shechter's Political Mother is something to be cherished. Especially since the piece has come back leaner and meaner but with a bit more warmth. A tidal wave of vivid mo…
SOURCE: The Tyro Theatre Critic at 05:05PMThursday, July 14, 2011
The National Theatre describe "A Woman Killed with Kindness" as "Fast-moving, frightening and erotic: a major play in a radical production". It is none of these things. It's quite slow, not …
SOURCE: The Tyro Theatre Critic at 05:24PMWednesday, July 13, 2011
When Wayne Sleep playing a nine year old in an unfeasibly over the top manner is the highlight of the evening you've got to worry a bit. Especially when the lead couple are the virtually pee…
SOURCE: The Tyro Theatre Critic at 05:17PM 
