By 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…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 02:34PMBy Julian Eaves The musical performances in Anyone Can Whistle will please people who like brilliantly written songs, and they will fire the imagination of anyone who hears them to imagine a…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 10:03AMBy Julian Eaves There are shadows here of ‘The Events’, as well as other absurdist and expressionist drama. I hope we hear more from Mr Eyre very soon. This post REVIEW: Crocodile, Vault…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 07:53AMBy Julian Eaves The choice of location assists the grim spectacle no end, with spaces melting away into the dank, shadowy recesses of the apparently never ending cellars beneath the sprawl o…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 02:30PMBy Julian Eaves Bare Essentials Seven Dials Club Saturday 28th January New Writing shows always tell you a lot more about the producers than the writers, and this one is no exception. The st…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 10:31AMBy Julian Eaves Although this is carefully scripted and directed with minute attention to detail, it all feels totally spontaneous and improvised. And dangerous. We might go anywhere with th…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 12:37PMBy Julian Eaves JANUARY : The Musical Revue The Crazy Coqs 24th January 2017 It was lovely to get to see another outing for this charming seasonal work-in-progress feast last week. First lau…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 11:39AMBy Julian Eaves Maury Yeston’s magnificent score for Death Takes A Holiday – one of the finest in London right now – is a glory not to be missed in this European premiere o…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 04:50AMBy Julian Eaves It’s always a pleasure to discover talented new writers (Bounder and Cad), and these two are great fun. This post REVIEW: Bounder and Cad, The Pheasantry – Jan 20…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 07:49AMBy Julian Eaves The young cast is energetic, lively and likeable: it would be great to see them with a more developed script, a tighter production and a script with as much wit and sparkle i…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 05:56AMBy Julian Eaves this is the ‘must-see’ show of the moment, with a glamorous audience hurrying to get in on the fun. And, yes, ultimately it keeps its promises. All of them. This post REV…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 12:57PMBy Julian Eaves The glory of this work is in the vivid life that exists in its extraordinary criss-crossing of four versions of very ordinary people. Tune into that and you will have somethi…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 06:19AMBy Julian Eaves Willmott has gathered together a handsome cast of 14 mainly young professionals, admonished with a few seasoned actors, and offers us a new way of using the Union’s rec…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 07:18AMBy Julian Eaves One of the most keenly anticipated events of this year’s gathering in the cavernous spaces beneath the tracks of Waterloo Station is this sci-fi space rock musical by the h…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 02:02PMBy Julian Eaves We asked our reviewers to take a look at 2016 and to nominate some stand out productions for 2016. Julian Eaves replied with the following:- The stand-out moments of 2016 for…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 11:01AMBy Julian Eaves Suffice it to say that the whole was appreciated by the local audience, who brought with them to the theatre their loyal appreciation and good nature. This post REVIEW: A Chr…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 03:06PMBy Julian Eaves Make sure you see it! Your endorphins will thank you forever. As for Buddy Thomas, I suspect we in the UK are going to hear much more from him. This post REVIEW: The Crumple …
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 09:00PMBy Julian Eaves Some people attending probably only ever go to the theatre to see the Christmas panto, and this certainly doesn’t disappoint. Some attending may even by inspired to go and …
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 10:57PMBy Julian Eaves Once again, Southwark Playhouse’s in-house Christmas offering takes us into new territory for the festive season, providing another alternative to the usual panto tropes. T…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 08:54AMBy Julian Eaves The writers seemed to have found a mine of energy and vitality in a story of everyday tragedy, of the kind that litters the pages of The Evening Standard every day. This post…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 05:37AMBy Julian Eaves As for this show, it’s all rather pretty and well-behaved and won’t do you any harm. Nothing to be ashamed of. This post REVIEW: She Loves Me, Menier Chocolate Factory �…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 12:06PMBy Julian Eaves Wonderfully melodic, strongly rhythmic and engagingly structured, the musical numbers in this score are its greatest glory. This post UPCOMING: Summer Street, Old Red Lion Th…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 05:33PMBy Julian Eaves This work combines an App-based animated graphic novel with audio and music and is launched direct to individual phones/tablets (the PC-friendly platform will appear later). …
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 11:29AMBy Julian Eaves By the time everyone trooped back onto the stage for the group curtain call, we all knew we’d been through something special. And for all of you who missed him this time ar…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 01:00AMBy Julian Eaves This is a play which is going somewhere, and it could be going somewhere really, really big, but right now it’s a boy who is old enough to smell but not yet old enough …
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 12:27AMBy Julian Eaves As harmless, seasonal larking about goes, this show is an undemanding couple of hours: if you go to it with an abundant admiration of the author and/or subject matter, you ma…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 06:07AMBy Julian Eaves As with that show, it is only possible to ‘warm’ to the characters (and we have to take their side one way or another) if they can charm us. At present, the songs do that…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 01:46PMBy Julian Eaves I came away from the performance greatly impressed by the technical achievement in constructing an ingenious chamber musical with the material, but rather in the dark about w…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 01:03PMBy Julian Eaves It’s huge fun, and races past in barely over an hour, hitting many more pleasure-spots than lulls. This post REVIEW: Princess, LOST Theatre ✭✭✭ first appeared on Bri…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 02:03PMBy Julian Eaves Hannah Elsy met Julian Eaves to discuss why she set up The Lowdown, the only public scratch night exclusively for new musical theatre in London. This post An Experiment In Mu…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 03:43AMBy Julian Eaves All in all, this collaboration between the Chichester Festival Theatre and Cameron Mackintosh is a splendidly handsome revival of a much-loved classic story, offering a fresh…
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