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Friday, January 12, 2018

BWW Interview: Catherine Lamb talks BUNNY at Tristan Bates Theatre by Cindy Marcolina

Catherine Lamb is an actress and Artistic Director of Fabricate Theatre. She's about to take the stage in her new production of Jack Thorne's Bunny at the Tristan Bates Theatre directed by L…

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Wednesday, December 20, 2017

BWW Review: WILDE CREATURES, Vaudeville Theatre by Cindy Marcolina

Tall Stories are back as part of Vaudeville Theatre's celebration of Oscar Wilde. They condense the author's fairy tales in Wilde Creatures, exploring morality in a show tailor-made for youn…

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BWW Interview: Joe McElderry Talks JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT by Cindy Marcolina

Joe McElderry - who won the 2009 edition of The X Factor - is ready to end the year taking the UK tour of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat to Newcastle, his hometown.

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:00AM
Thursday, December 14, 2017

BWW Review: BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (A MUSICAL PARODY), King's Head Theatre by Cindy Marcolina

What would happen if instead of Belle, there was Beau, Gaston was transformed into Chevonne, and the Beast wore a velvet corset Fat Rascal Theatre gender-swap the classic fairytale and trans…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:04AM
Saturday, December 9, 2017

BWW Review: CALLISTO: A QUEER EPIC, Arcola Theatre by Cindy Marcolina

It's 1680 in London, Arabella Hunt Marilyn Nadebe is secretly married to Amy Georgia Bruce in what inadvertently becomes the first ever recorded gat marriage in England. In the meantime but…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:35PM
Tuesday, December 5, 2017

BWW Review: DEAR BRUTUS, Southwark Playhouse by Cindy Marcolina

In a quaint little 1917 English village, a weird old man invites eight strangers to say at his house. The choice of guests is anything but casual, as they all have something in common, even …

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:39AM
Saturday, December 2, 2017

BWW Review: THE PASSING OF THE THIRD FLOOR BACK, Finborough Theatre by Cindy Marcolina

Mrs. Sharpe's Anna Mottram run-down boarding house is the home of a bizarre group of people. Harry's Benjamin Chandler music career is going down the drain, Vivian Claire Redcliffe is being …

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:51AM
Thursday, November 30, 2017

BWW Interview: Robyn Grant Talks BEAUTY AND THE BEAST at King's Head Theatre by Cindy Marcolina

Robyn Grant is a writer and performer. She is also the Artistic Director of Fat Rascal Theatre, a company whose aim is to create feminist musical theatre. She's embarking on a new journey wi…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:15AM
Sunday, November 26, 2017

Tonic Celebrates, Empowers and Emboldens Audiences and Creatives Alike by Cindy Marcolina

Lucy Kerbel and Tonic Theatre presented the fifth Tonic Celebrates event on 24 November at The Other Palace. The guests of the night were Rosalie Craig, Phyllida Lloyd, and Danielle Tarento,…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:14PM
Sunday, November 19, 2017

BWW Review: MISS JULIE, Jermyn Street Theatre by Cindy Marcolina

Directed by Jermyn Street Theatre's own artistic director Tom Littler, Miss Julie is revived in an effortlessly visceral new production.

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Wednesday, November 15, 2017

BWW Review: PHOENIX RISING, Smithfield Car Park by Cindy Marcolina

Eighteen-year-old Callum is taking his first steps out of care, dreaming of becoming a track star. He is immediately flung into a world of poverty and toxic company, and when his legs start …

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:38AM
Saturday, November 11, 2017

BWW Review: NO PLACE LIKE HOPE, The Old Red Lion Theatre by Cindy Marcolina

When Becca Holly Donovan is sent to a hospice in order to serve a community punishment, she meets Anna Clare Corbett, a cancer patient at terminal stage. An unlikely friendship starts betwee…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:18AM
Friday, November 10, 2017

BWW Interview: Stewart Pringle Talks TRESTLE at Southwark Playhouse by Cindy Marcolina

Stewart Pringle is the Associate Dramaturg of the Bush Theatre. His play Trestle is the most recent winner of the Papatango Playwriting Prize, and is at Southwark Playhouse until 25 November.

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:01AM
Tuesday, October 31, 2017

BWW Review: QUAINT HONOUR, Finborough Theatre by Cindy Marcolina

59 years after it first premiered, Roger Gellert's Quaint Honour is revived as part of the fiftieth anniversary of the Sexual Offences Act. In 50s Great Britain, homosexuality is still illeg…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:42AM
Wednesday, October 25, 2017

BWW Review: WHEN MIDNIGHT STRIKES, The Drayton Arms by Cindy Marcolina

It's New Year's Eve 1999 and Jennifer Elizabeth Chadwick and Christopher Simon Burr are ready to host the party of the millennium. But as their guests begin to arrive, everything starts fall…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:54AM
Tuesday, October 24, 2017

BWW Interview: David Mercateli Talks INSIGNIFICANCE At Arcola Theatre by Cindy Marcolina

Twenty years after its first premiere, Terry Johnson's Insignificance is being given new life by director David Mercatali. He discusses his career and how the world has changed since the pla…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:00AM
Monday, October 23, 2017

BWW Interview: Maggie Norris Talks PHOENIX RISING At Smithfield Car Park by Cindy Marcolina

Director Maggie Norris is embarking on a new journey with Phoenix Rising. She explains why she started The Big House and how vital it is to give support to youngsters leaving care.

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:12AM
Saturday, October 21, 2017

BWW Review: OF KITH AND KIN, Bush Theatre by Cindy Marcolina

Daniel James Lance and Oliver Joshua Silver are the picture of a happy gay marriage. Now, they're about to have their first baby with their closest friend Priya Chetna Pandya acting as a sur…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:36AM
Wednesday, October 4, 2017

BWW Review: TURKEY, The Hope Theatre by Cindy Marcolina

Madeline Peyvand Sadeghian wants the only thing her partner Toni Harriet Green can't give her a baby. When Maddie offers a solution involving someone from their past, Toni starts to be conce…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:42AM
Saturday, September 23, 2017

BWW Review: RAMONA TELLS JIM, Bush Theatre by Cindy Marcolina

On a geography trip to the Scottish Highlands around 1998, middle-schooler Ramona Ruby Bentall falls for Jim Joe Bannister, a socially awkward simpleton with a passion-bordering-obsession fo…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:10PM
Monday, September 18, 2017

Fresh Faces And Inspiring Words At The Stage Debut Awards by Cindy Marcolina

On Sunday, 17th September, 8 Northumberland Avenue saw theatre veterans and newcomers gathering together to celebrate the latter's accomplishments. The first edition of The Stage Debut Award…

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BWW Interview: Catherine Steadman Talks WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION by Cindy Marcolina

Catherine Steadman's career spans stage and screen from Mansfield Park to Downton Abbey, and from Oppenheimer which earned her an Oliver Award nomination to That Face at the Royal Court. She…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:24AM
Wednesday, September 13, 2017

Book Review: TIP OF THE TONGUE, Peter Brook by Cindy Marcolina

We use them every day. Sometimes we mean them, other times we don't. We whisper, sing, or scream them. Words permeate our lives from the very start, and theatre director Peter Brook accompan…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:42AM
Saturday, September 9, 2017

BWW Review: DOUBT, A PARABLE, Southwark Playhouse by Cindy Marcolina

When Sister Aloysius Stella Gonet, St. Nicholas Church School's conservative and distrusting principal, learns from Sister James Clare Latham that Father Flynn Jonathan Chambers had a one-on…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:06AM
Friday, September 8, 2017

BWW Review: WAITING FOR GODOT, Arts Theatre by Cindy Marcolina

Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot returns to the Arts Theatre, 62 years after making its English-language debut at the same venue. Thisproduction focuses on the play's essence, withdirector…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:12AM

BWW Interview: Cherrelle Skeete Talks THE SEAGULL At Lyric Hammersmith by Cindy Marcolina

Cherrelle Skeete, who originated the character of Rose Granger Weasley in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, is now starring in the Lyric Hammersmith's production of The Seagull, which begin…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:36AM
Tuesday, September 5, 2017

BWW Review: HYEM (YEM, HJEM, HOME), Theatre503 by Cindy Marcolina

Mick and Sylv's Patrick Driver and Charlie Hardwick home is a safe haven for some of the teenagers living in a small town in Northumberland. Dummey Ryan Nolan, Laura Aimee Kelly, and Shelley…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:54AM
Friday, August 25, 2017

BWW Review: LATE COMPANY, Trafalgar Studios by Cindy Marcolina

Michael Yale gives new life to Jordan Tannahill's Late Company at Trafalgar Studios after a critically acclaimed run at Finborough Theatre earlier this year. The cast is once again inspiring…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:43AM
Tuesday, August 22, 2017

BWW Interview: A Spoonful of Sherman with the Show's Creator and Narrator, Robert J. Sherman by Cindy Marcolina

Songwriter Robert J. Sherman just ended a run of his latest show A Spoonful of Sherman at Live at Zedel. He discusses the genesis of the cabaret and his family's musical heritage.

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:52PM
Friday, August 11, 2017

BWW Review: OLYMPILADS, Theatre N16 by Cindy Marcolina

Andrew Maddock explores a difficult family relationship marred by old issues and mental health in his new play. While Darren Nebiu Samuel believes he's going to beat Usain Bolt in the Men's …

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:42AM
Tuesday, August 8, 2017

BWW Review: BOOM, Theatre503 by Cindy Marcolina

Director Katherine Nesbitt leads the UK premiere of Boom, which premiered at the Ars Nova Theatre in New York in 2008. Following huge success in its first run, it became a favourite among pr…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:58PM