By 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…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 06:13PMBy Julian Eaves This is about as perfect a production of Philip Ridley’s scary monodrama – a kind of ‘The Events’, except with loads more jokes, and much less singing…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 06:49AMBy Julian Eaves What we have here is a clear successor to ‘Mamma Mia’, in that the show takes a seminal back-catalogue and lifts from it a mix of tracks to elaborate and decorate…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 10:44PMBy Julian Eaves Regretfully, I have to note that I personally didn’t find any work of that quality in this particular offering. This post REVIEW: Lunatic, TheatreN16 ✭ first appeared on…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 02:10PMBy Julian Eaves In miniature, a marvelous insight into the life and work of artists in musical theatre, with something a little bit different about it, drawing a nice crowd, reminding us of …
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 02:32PMBy Julian Eaves This is a remarkable and magnificent work, rich in detail and meaning, and – as we approach another decisive moment in the US (and therefore also global) history –…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 07:29AMBy Julian Eaves There is a lot, in fact, in the writing – and delivery – that reminds one of the best female stand-up comedy, and the audience here seems to be very like the audi…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 04:27AMBy Julian Eaves The show has been seen in London several times recently, and it is clearly a work that repays revisitation, and reinterpretation. I will certainly be back to see this version…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 11:14AMBy Julian Eaves That such a heavyweight should be having his work showcased by such a (still) small company in a fringe studio says a lot about him and a lot about the venue and its visitors…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 08:19AMBy Julian Eaves Wonderful Town Ye Olde Rose And Crowne Pub Theatre 14 October 2016 Book Tickets When Tim McArthur and Aaron Clingham started up this pub theatre eight years ago, I wonder how…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 06:41PMBy Julian Eaves Andrew Wright’s production does what it can to make us concentrate on the show’s many felicities. However, it may take more than bracing direction and lively movement to …
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 04:29PMBy Julian Eaves This is the funniest show of its kind since ‘Forbidden Broadway’. This post REVIEW: Musical Of The Year, Lost Theatre ✭✭✭✭ first appeared on British Thea…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 11:34AMBy Julian Eaves This is very New York. A constant hurly-burly of influences and crossed paths, with the players packed into the smallest space possible This post REVIEW: Wonderful Town, Ye O…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 10:45AMBy Julian Eaves This is the most important and exciting rediscovery of a ‘lost’ British musical since the 1982 King’s Head Theatre revival of Vivian Ellis’s ‘Mr Cinders’ This pos…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 02:47PMBy Julian Eaves Brilliantly well-written dialogue is always great to hear, especially when delivered with cut-glass panache as by this super quartet: in addition to the author, we have Lee C…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 11:25AMBy Julian Eaves It was a HUGE relief when it was all over. Not least for the accused, perhaps, who – like the rest of the cast – had had the almost impossible task of putting acr…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 06:00AMBy Julian Eaves Silver takes Williams’ American milieu and shifts it deftly – without changing a single word of the text – into the seedy, East-End-by-the-seaside, down-at-…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 11:06AMBy Julian Eaves So, should one see this show? In my book, even if only for the closing minutes, then most definitely. Bateman and Hughes are major new talents and this is an indicator that m…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 11:32AMBy Julian Eaves And the company, all giving their energies for a song and dance, make this the wonder it is: a rollicking night out, and also a landmark in the development of another great B…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 07:07AMBy Julian Eaves Musically, this is a serious work, that demands a lot of its listeners; but it repays handsomely in its dramatic and aesthetic effects. This post REVIEW: Adding Machine, Finb…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 06:50AMBy Julian Eaves There really is no infrastructure in Ireland for making work of this kind, which makes the achievement all the more striking. Everyone has another job, or two, and time has t…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 02:09PMBy Julian Eaves Nevertheless, this is another creditable creation from the production stables of Sasha Regan and underlines her continuing commitment to the development of new British musica…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 08:27AMBy Julian Eaves Cadogan Hall brought a lavish concert performance of the piece to its stage, and – once again – we saw and heard just why we should value this work amongst the hi…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 01:21PMBy Julian Eaves If anyone loves the music of Caro Emerald, then they’ll love this feast of her songs presented in a dramatic context. If anyone does not know her music, or has yet to be pe…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 01:14PMBy Julian Eaves Sid Above The Arts 21 September 2016 5 Stars Book Tickets If the last you heard of Sid Vicious was seeing Gary Oldman gradually die of heroin addiction in Alex Cox’s 1986 b…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 05:42AMBy Julian Eaves Added to this is the factor of Lippa’s music and Greenwald’s lyrics (they share credits for the book). Both can be bright, incisive, strongly characterised and emotionall…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 06:04AMBy Julian Eaves There is sometimes a rawness to the action, an absence of polish, but it is always convincing and involving: in fact, the wonderful paradox here is that, as the play progress…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 11:09AMBy Julian Eaves This current production looks like an object lesson in how to fuse the best of experienced industry leaders with dynamic new talent. And the writing-directing-choreographing …
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 10:36AMBy Julian Eaves Gregory S. Moss is an ingenious playwright who has created a sequence of tableaux, each of which can be understood as a ‘cover’ of a different musical ‘trac…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 06:42AMBy Julian Eaves Above all, this is a drama that might occur in anyone’s life: the sheer everyday nature of the story is in fact its raison d’etre. While it may not bark for atten…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 05:55AMBy Julian Eaves You must judge for yourself whether you think this may or may not the case with this play. Whatever decision you arrive at, you might also like to consider what effect would …
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