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Thursday, May 9, 2013

Miss Nightingale - The Burlesque Musical, New Wolsey, Ipswich by Paul Vale

New Wolsey, Ipswich: Miss Nightingale is an intimate, original musical set in the nightclubs of Forties London with an equally original score by composer and lyricist Matthew Bugg. Read the…

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Friday, May 3, 2013

Gutted, Theatre Royal Stratford East, London by Paul Vale

Theatre Royal Stratford East, London: Told with shocking clarity but a keen sense of compassion, one of the remarkable things about this new drama is its eloqence. Read the full review

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Thursday, May 2, 2013

Merrily We Roll Along, Harold Pinter Theatre, London by Paul Vale

Harold Pinter Theatre, London: Once again the <a href="https://www.menierchocolatefactory.com/">Menier Chocolate Factory</a>, a tiny theatre in Southwark, proves itself…

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:45AM
Monday, April 29, 2013

Burlexe, Shadow Lounge, London by Paul Vale

Shadow Lounge, London: Burlexe attempts to bring a sense of social history to the art of striptease by interspersing the acts with pertinent dramatic monologues. The venue is a subterranean …

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:56AM
Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Sleeping Arrangements, Landor, London by Paul Vale

Landor, London: Judging by the amount of popular chick lit foisted onto the public every summer, it was only a matter of time before some enterprising composer attempted a musical adaptation…

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:20PM
Monday, April 22, 2013

The Universal Machine, New Diorama, London by Paul Vale

New Diorama, London: This new piece focuses on episodes in the life and death of mathematician, inventor and war hero Alan Turing. Much of the same territory is covered in Hugh Whitemore…

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:58AM
Thursday, April 18, 2013

Beautiful Thing, Arts, London by Paul Vale

Arts, London: One of the joys of Jonathan Harvey's 1993 play, Beautiful Thing, is that despite occasional references to celebrity it manages to remain a fairly contemporary piece. The t…

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:01AM
Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Academy Of Live and Recorded Arts Three-Year Acting Showcase 2013, Royal Court Theatre, London by Paul Vale

Royal Court Theatre, London: When you are faced with 36 duologues in an afternoon you really have to pack a punch to be noticed. Fortunately the graduating students of ALRA's Three-Year…

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:14PM
Monday, April 15, 2013

One Night With Joan, Leicester Square, London by Paul Vale

Leicester Square, London: At an age when most people contemplate their dotage, actress, writer and mother Joan Collins gamely takes the role of host in this one-woman show, detailing the hig…

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:47AM

The Revenge of Sherlock Holmes, Hoxton Hall, London by Paul Vale

Hoxton Hall, London: Based on the characters created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Revenge is an adaptation of the original Sherlock Holmes-The Musical, which managed a fairly forgettable s…

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:23AM
Thursday, April 11, 2013

Carnaby Street, Hackney Empire, London by Paul Vale

Hackney Empire, London: Over 16 years in the making, Carl Leighton-Pope's musical Carnaby Street offers a peek at London in the swinging sixties, when youth culture began to make an imp…

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:41AM
Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Once, Phoenix, London by Paul Vale

Phoenix, London: Thanks to the bellowing publicity machine of The Book Of Mormon, audiences might be forgiven for not noticing that another Broadway transfer has just opened in the West End.…

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Monday, April 8, 2013

Streets, Cockpit, London by Paul Vale

Cockpit, London: Streets, by Scottish composer and lyricist Finn Anderson, originally premiered to critical acclaim at the 2012 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Despite its hefty praise, the adage…

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:47AM
Tuesday, April 2, 2013

Mat Ricardo's London Varieties, Leicester Square, London by Paul Vale

Leicester Square, London: The set-up of Mat Ricardo's London Varieties is relatively straightforward, with juggler and performer Ricardo playing host to a selection of the finest variet…

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:11PM
Monday, March 25, 2013

Darling of the Day, Union Theatre, London by Paul Vale

Union Theatre, London: Plagued with problems in the lead-up to its premier on Broadway in 1968, Darling of the Day originally starred Patricia Routledge and Vincent Price in what was to be h…

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Friday, March 22, 2013

East 15 BA Acting and Contemporary Theatre Graduate Showcase, Soho, London by Paul Vale

Soho, London: In one of the more inventive and absorbing student showcases of the season, the graduating students of East 15's BA Acting and Contemporary Theatre course write, direct an…

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:56AM
Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Fruit Fly, Leicester Square, London by Paul Vale

Leicester Square, London: Leslie Jordan became a household name in the UK through his occasional appearances on the NBC sitcom Will & Grace. In 2011, Jordan brought his one-man show, My …

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:54AM

Priscilla, Queen of the Desert - The Musical, New Wimbledon, London by Paul Vale

New Wimbledon, London: After a healthy run in the West End, Broadway and, of course, its original run in Australia, the ultimate road-musical is finally taking a tour of the UK. Based on the…

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:33AM
Thursday, March 7, 2013

Mile High - The Musical, Lost, London by Paul Vale

Lost, London: With its glamorous commercial PR and heavy reinforcement of class hierarchy, commercial airline travel has long been a rich source of humour, from the woefully short-lived The …

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:12AM
Monday, March 4, 2013

Glasgow Academy Musical Theatre Arts Graduate Showcase 2013, Criterion, London by Paul Vale

Criterion, London: Although based in Glasgow, <a href="http://www.gamta.org.uk/">GAMTA</a> is keen to ensure that its musical theatre graduates are afforded all the opp…

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:58AM

The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Broadway Studio, London by Paul Vale

Broadway Studio, London: Originally conceived from an improvised play, this charming musical follows a disparate group of quirky adolescents as they take part in a school spelling competitio…

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Friday, March 1, 2013

Oedipus, Blue Elephant, London by Paul Vale

Blue Elephant, London: In a city driven to the edge of collapse after bloody wars, King Oedipus triumphs, only to be faced with horrifying discoveries about the curse of his birth. For this …

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:11AM
Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Top Hat, Aldwych, London by Paul Vale

Aldwych, London: In something akin to a moment from a classic Hollywood movie, Gavin Lee - the new leading man of Top Hat - is suffering with a chest infection and unable to appear. While we…

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:36AM
Tuesday, February 26, 2013

The Great Gatsby, Wilton's Music Hall, London by Paul Vale

Wilton's Music Hall, London: The presence of The Great Gatsby in London will linger on for a while, on the fringe at least. After last year's three stage adaptations and ahead of the re…

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:29AM
Monday, February 25, 2013

The Mikado, Tabard, London by Paul Vale

Tabard, London: For the past two years Pulling Focus Ltd have produced the light operas of Gilbert and Sullivan with an emphasis on the word 'light'. While it's true that the …

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:48AM
Friday, February 22, 2013

Sherie Rene Scott - Piece of Meat, Hippodrome, London by Paul Vale

Hippodrome, London: Relatively unknown in the UK, Sherie Rene Scott is a big name on and off stage on Broadway. A double Tony Award nominee for The Little Mermaid and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels…

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:22AM
Thursday, February 21, 2013

The Route to Happiness, Landor, London by Paul Vale

Landor, London: The Landor's From Page to Stage season, running until March 17, aims to highlight new musical theatre by showcasing and running workshops of new writing from a collectio…

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:12AM
Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Elaine Delmar - Gershwin and More, The Crazy Coqs, London by Paul Vale

The Crazy Coqs, London: Elaine Delmar has had an enviably diverse career as a performer, working on the West End stage in productions such as Cowardy Custard and Bubbling Brown Sugar in the …

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:15PM
Wednesday, February 6, 2013

SIRO-A, Leicester Square, London by Paul Vale

Leicester Square, London: Having won Mervyn Stutter's Spirit of the Fringe award in 2011, performance artists from Sendai - Japan SIRO-A - are finally making their London debut. The nam…

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:28AM
Friday, February 1, 2013

An Evening with Lorna Luft, The Crazy Coqs, London by Paul Vale

The Crazy Coqs, London: Being the daughter of Judy Garland and producer Sid Luft means that a career in cabaret comes with certain expectations. By no means as big a star as her mother and p…

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:47AM
Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Janie Dee - Satin Doll, The Crazy Coqs, London by Paul Vale

The Crazy Coqs, London: Janie Dee is billed as "one of the most versatile performers on the British stage", so it is perhaps understandable that her new cabaret show Satin Doll is …

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:03PM

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