Monday, May 25, 2015

What's cool got to dooby-do with it? by Philip Norman

A new musical proves that Neil Sedaka really did have the hip songwriting touch, argues its author

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Stephen Sondheim: 'My ideal collaborator is me' by Alan Franks

With A Little Night Music back in the West End, the master of music theatre gives a rare interview

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Simon Stephens and Mark Eitzel sing together by Jasper Rees

The playwright contacted his favourite musician through a fan website and the two ended up co-writing a musical

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Antonia Fraser on her affair with Harold Pinter by Valerie Grove

Their love affair scandalised 1970s society, but the details have stayed private - until now. From the reckless, champagne-fuelled first night onwards, the historian is finally revealing all

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Wired for sound: how Richard Dreyfuss remembers his lines by Kaya Burgess and Jack Malvern

Theatregoers said that Dreyfuss's earpiece did not affect his performance

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Complicit at the Old Vic by Benedict Nightingale (**)

Earpiece or not, Dreyfuss scores a success - which is more than can be said for the play

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A modest man but certainly not retiring by Valerie Grove

At 75, Timothy West is in a care home for his latest play, Ronald Harwood's Quintet, but he's far from taking it easy

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A Steady Rain at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre, New York by Matt Wolf (***)

The play's above-the-title wattage has pulled in the audiences but fans of Daniel Craig and Hugh Jackman will be disappointed

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Oliver! at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane by Benedict Nightingale (****)

Dickens of a revival for Rowan Atkinson who plays Fagin as Mr Bean with menace

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Trumbo at Jermyn Street Theatre, SW1 by Dominic Maxwell (**)

Before the start of the week, the talk about Corin Redgrave's return to the stage was how he would fare in only his second stage role since his heart attack of 2005. Now, the death of his ni…

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Forbidden Broadway UK: third time lucky by Brian Logan

Forbidden Broadway, the cult New York show, is coming to London to mock our musicals one last time

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It's far too stuffy in here by Christopher Hart

The Donmar's Late Middle Classes, director by David Leveaux, has some great actors, but is ultimately dull, dull, dull

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Breakfast at Tiffany's, at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, W1 - Review by Benedict Nightingale (**)

Anna Friel has her moments but she doesn't have the mercurial, emotionally dangerous quality that Holly Golightly needs

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An Inspector Calls at the Novello, London WC2 by Sam Marlowe (****)

More than 15 years after its first appearance at the National, Stephen Daldry's reinvention of Priestley is still heart-thumpingly thrilling

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Why the West End has become bewitched by Wicked by Ben Hoyle

Wicked is the biggest thing in musicals since The Phantom of the Opera opened - and other theatres are green with envy

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Mandy Patinkin on acting versus singing by David Cote

He famously swaggered through The Princess Bride but it's as a singer that Mandy Patinkin excels

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Kim Cattrall - the lady is no tramp by Dominic Wells

The actress, who is returning to the West End stage, could not be more different from her role as the maneating Samantha Jones in Sex and the City

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Alison Steadman: why I won't be heading for the Hollywood Hills by Hugo Rifkind

Alison Steadman is happy to talk about her new play and Gavin & Stacey, but don't mention the H-word

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Jonathan Pryce, finding freedom by Benedict Nightingale

The actor insists that he has finished with musicals and has taken on his most difficult role in years

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Mother Courage at the Olivier, SE1 by Benedict Nightingale (***)

This depiction of war's horrors and perverse magnetism is brought to a raucous climax by Fiona Shaw's Mother Courage

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Why Caryl Churchill is the Top Girl by Lucy Powell

As Caryl Churchill turns 70, her admirers and collaborators tell what it's like to work with one of our most important playwrights

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Calendar Girls tackle the full Monty... almost by Hamish McColl

Bringing Calendar Girls to the stage posed one obvious problem - how to bare the flesh. The director reveals the naked truth

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May 30, 2023: Grey House - Lyceum Theatre
Jun 26, 2023: Just For Us - Hudson Theatre
Jul 24, 2023: The Cottage - Hayes Theater
Nov 16, 2023: Spamalot - St. James Theatre
Dec 18, 2023: Appropriate - Hayes Theater
Mar 07, 2024: Doubt - Todd Haimes Theatre
Apr 14, 2024: Lempicka - Longacre Theatre
Apr 17, 2024: The Wiz - Marquis Theatre
Apr 18, 2024: Suffs - Music Box Theatre
Apr 25, 2024: Mother Play - Hayes Theater
Jun 10, 2024: The Drama Desk Awards