By Julian Eaves With Birds Of Paradise there is the sense that they (David Evans and Winnie Holzman) are trying out an ingenious idea, and nearly getting it right. This post REVIEW: Birds Of…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 12:03PMBy Julian Eaves Pete ‘N' Keely is great fun and if you just focus on the plentiful goodies, you’ll have a ball. This post REVIEW: Pete ‘N’ Keely, Tristan Bates Theatre �…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 01:28PMBy Julian Eaves Margoyles is all stillness and urgent rouge-et-noir power; her delivery like acid etching a design on copperplate. Barber speaks with that magical voice that sounds like olor…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 03:02PMBy Julian Eaves “You don’t so much leave at the end of this concert, as sail away from it on a wave of euphoria” says our theatre critic Julian Eaves of Maria Friedman. This po…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 01:13PMBy Julian Eaves Maybe James Shirley isn't one of the greatest playwrights ever to animate the stages of this country, but he's far from the worst, and this is probably his best effort. It's …
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 05:09AMBy Julian Eaves If you see nothing else this year, see this! It is a hallucinogenic wander through a maze of brilliantly realised spaces, evoking scenes and adventures from the eternally att…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 11:26AMBy Julian Eaves Overall, Whisper House is an interesting experiment, a novel departure from the ‘norms’ of musical theatre. If it doesn’t quite fulfill its ambitions, well,…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 05:00AMBy Julian Eaves There is a simplicity to the characters which is artless and appealing in its own way, but it also makes them rather thinly drawn, and even over the course of an hour, we fin…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 01:00PMBy Julian Eaves Kray Kray is another terrific feather in the cap of the enterprising Theatre N16 and not to be missed. This post REVIEW: Kray Kray, Theatre N16 ✭✭✭✭ first appeared o…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 06:00PMBy Julian Eaves If you can get a ticket for the remaining shows, do. If not, she’ll be at the Wyndham’s as ‘Lady Day’ in May. Perfect. This post REVIEW: Audra McDonal…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 09:34AMBy Julian Eaves Go for the music, and you'll have a ball. This post REVIEW: This Joint Is Jumpin’, The Other Palace Studio ✭✭✭✭ first appeared on British Theatre. Hurrah!
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 04:53PMBy Julian Eaves Treading similar terrain as the recently seen ‘Mrs Henderson Presents', it has an infectious score, well-written dialogue, and a story that revolves around more than on…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 07:21AMBy Julian Eaves This is a worthwhile exercise, it is well produced, well acted and well nigh bound to leave you thinking that, as far as the development of nineteenth century British theatre…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 12:13PMBy Julian Eaves The Life Southwark Playhouse 29th March 2017 5 Stars Book Now Every now and then, a musical comes along that talks to us as grown-ups. It doesn't happen very often, but when …
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 04:25AMBy Julian Eaves Tennant offers what the West End loves: a tour-de-force performance that looks totally at home in the gilded, plush, ornate interior of this exquisite fin-de-siecle theatre. …
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 01:10PMBy Julian Eaves Patterson's aim is to create a light comedy, and he has succeeded pretty well. This post REVIEW: Threesome, Union Theatre ✭✭✭ first appeared on British Theatre. Hurrah!
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 10:35AMBy Julian Eaves These songs rank amongst Sondheim’s best, and the witty, light-as-air confection of the book is a constant joy, managing to stay always earthy and ‘grounded’, no matter…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 02:35PMBy Julian Eaves The key to all this is John Partridge’s iconic rendition of the complex, fascinating, physically and emotionally demanding role of Albin: an exercise in stagecraft of the h…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 02:19PMBy Julian Eaves Right from the first notes of the thrilling overture, this was going to be a night no one present would ever forget. This post REVIEW: Honeymoon In Vegas In Concert, London P…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 02:48PMBy Julian Eaves There’s lots of gentle humour, gentle pathos, gentle social critique, and a gently uplifting ‘message’ to go away with at the end. This post REVIEW: Souther…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 04:23PMBy Julian Eaves It’s very pleasant, often amusing, and if it doesn’t plumb any depths in its conventional story of growing up. This post REVIEW: The Diary Of A Teenage Girl, Sout…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 06:48AMBy Julian Eaves The great, central achievement of this production is in the two-handed coup of Jeremy Legat and Ed MacArthur’s dazzling performance as duetting singer-actor-dancer pian…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 05:40AMBy Julian Eaves It’s a very clever idea, and writer Tom Stenton is to be congratulated for having formulated it and brought it thus far along the road to taking theatrical shape. This …
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 02:45PMBy Julian Eaves If you like simple – very simple – soap-operas about nice middle-class people, who drink lots of prosecco and talk at inordinate length and to no great purpose ab…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 09:03AMBy Julian Eaves By the time the reprise of the title song reappeared as ‘Your Voice’ and then led us into the finale ultimo of ‘Encore!’, we were ready to leave the cabaret with fond…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 04:12AMBy Julian Eaves Cases Phoenix Artist Club Sunday 12th February 2017 A new work by the breathtakingly talented Dominic Powell (who is barely into his third decade) is always a cause for celeb…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 07:07AMBy Julian Eaves This is the greatest American musical since ‘Sweeney Todd’. I have seen it twice this week, in the wonderful production by the American director, Victoria Bussert…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 09:00AMBy Julian Eaves This delicious new musical is the wittiest, most elegant and most extraordinary new show on offer in town right now. This post REVIEW: The Sorrows Of Satan, Tristan Bates The…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 11:26AMBy Julian Eaves The wonder of Aria Entertainments' revues is their simplicity and coherence: two qualities easy to strive for, but easy to miss in this deceptively simple form. This post REV…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 09:43AMBy Julian Eaves Julian Eaves attended a preview presentation of new musical The Sorcerer's Apprentice by Ben Frost and Richard Hough. The wonderfully gifted songwriting team of Ben Frost (mu…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 08:09AMBy Julian Eaves It has been fifteen years in the making, and – finally – My Land's Shore has made it to the stage in its world premiere full production. This post REVIEW: Mt Land…
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