Monday, October 12, 2015
By Stephen Collins
Quite simply, it is one of the most perfectly conceived, cast and executed productions of a musical on any stage anywhere in the world. It's shocking, brutal, brilliant an…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 08:45AMFriday, October 9, 2015
By Stephen Collins
Central to the power of the the production is the exquisite casting of the two doomed lovers, Eddie and May. Nina Arianda, a fan of this play since her very youngest days,…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 06:35AMTuesday, October 6, 2015
By Stephen Collins
The book is laid out like a sorta-score. There is an Overture, large chapters which form 'the key changes of (Bricusse's) life' - from A Minor to G Undiminished and a Coda…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 01:35PMBy Stephen Collins
Lecesne has a winning charm and a cast-iron technique, so his spinning wheel presentation of a myriad of small town character types is absolutely engaging and subtly preac…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 06:36AMMonday, October 5, 2015
By Stephen Collins
Part Felicity Kendall, part Carol Channing, with just a soupçon of Jo Grant (The Doctor Who companion she first played about forty five years ago) and legs that most 30 y…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 10:21AMBy Stephen Collins
It both shines a light on a corner of society which is misunderstood and unfairly vilified and, examines the rules, conventions, habits and language of a particular form o…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 06:01AMSaturday, October 3, 2015
By Stephen Collins
What play should you see first in London? We have compiled this list to save you the trouble of working it out! It’s just our view – and everyone has one ̵…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 06:16AMThursday, October 1, 2015
By Stephen Collins
What Musical should you see first in London? We have compiled this list to save you the trouble of working it out! It’s just our view – and everyone has one &#…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 05:40PMBy Stephen Collins
If you attend the theatre regularly, you will undoubtedly have encountered that rare, awful, but entirely exquisite, moment when an actor dries, a prop fails, a door doesn…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 10:49AMBy Stephen Collins
Bricusse's output is so prodigious and so tuneful that only the tone deaf would not find lots of numbers here satisfying and delicious. Many will find something to enjoy …
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 07:07AMTuesday, September 22, 2015
By Stephen Collins
When the climax to Act One involves a slapstick shovel-on-head knockout blow, a suit splitting across the central character's back, and Steven Berkoff finally making his e…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 04:00PMMonday, September 21, 2015
By Stephen Collins
The Hampstead season has all but sold out, if not actually sold out. Make every effort to grab a return. The production really ought to transfer to the West End and run an…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 04:00PMBy Stephen Collins
Lennox is sensational as Lauren, the whacky factory girl who flirts with and eventually wins the heart of the Boss. It is a comic tour-de-force from Lennox who doesn’t m…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 09:36AMThursday, September 17, 2015
By Stephen Collins
As directed by Luke Sheppard, Casa Valentino is a play about a marriage. Everything turns on the central relationship between George (Edward Wolstenholme) and Rita (Tamsin…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 07:07AMWednesday, September 16, 2015
By Stephen Collins
There are many extraordinary moments from Keenan. Highlights include his improvisation of horse-racing victories; the powerful sequence which opens the second Act when Edw…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 04:24PMBy Stephen Collins
It feels like a farce as it plays out. Yet, it is described as "a raucous family drama about the cost of living the life of our dreams". Bizarre and incomprehensible thing…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 08:25AMMonday, September 14, 2015
By Stephen Collins
It is important to be clear about Kidman's failures because the character she plays, Rosalind Franklin, at least in the version of history which Ziegler endorses in her sc…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 05:51PMBy Stephen Collins
Marc Elliott is the one cast member who seems to understand this and he completely subsumed himself in his dual roles of Thief and Reporter. Sinewy, handsome, bristling wi…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 04:14AMTuesday, September 8, 2015
By Stephen Collins
Stephens shares writing credits for Song From Far Away with Mark Eitzel who provides the lyrics and music for a haunting, quite beautiful song, pieces of which punctuate t…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 06:12AMTuesday, September 1, 2015
By Stephen Collins
What long running show should you see first in London? We have compiled this list to save you the trouble of working it out! It’s just our view – and everyone …
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 11:45AMBy Stephen Collins
What play should you see first in London? We have compiled this list to save you the trouble of working it out! It’s just our view – and everyone has one ̵…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 10:24AMBy Stephen Collins
What Musical should you see first in London? We have compiled this list to save you the trouble of working it out! It’s just our view – and everyone has one &#…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 09:42AMThursday, August 27, 2015
By Stephen Collins
The dancing is really the one area here where there is a consistent, utterly stylish, utterly camp, utterly "too much" approach. The cast are all accomplished dancers and …
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 06:29AMBy Stephen Collins
Nadia Fall has misunderstood the play and, by seeking to make her mark on it, has come dangerously close to obliterating its impact. Bad casting and bad direction, however…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 05:31AMWednesday, August 26, 2015
By Stephen Collins
There is no doubt that Mrs Henderson Presents should transfer to the West End. The material is first-rate and superior to many new musicals that have played there in recen…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 05:37PMTuesday, August 25, 2015
By Stephen Collins
Hamlet Barbican Theatre 14 August 2015 It has been two hours. The dreary Claudius has just dispatched his son-in-law, Hamlet, to England and confided to the audience that …
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 06:13PMSaturday, August 22, 2015
By Stephen Collins
I doubt anyone could hope for a finer, more delicate production of this great play. It is genuinely funny in parts, full of melodramatic touches which are not silly but in…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 08:45AMThursday, August 13, 2015
By Stephen Collins
It is difficult to remember a recent production of a drama where the design elements played so profoundly important a role in the understanding of the production that it i…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 05:44AMWednesday, August 12, 2015
By Stephen Collins
This gender, race and sexual politics canvas stretches across the entire platform of the performances, from the sharp opening patter of Fez Fa'anana which happily offends …
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 05:24AMTuesday, August 11, 2015
By Stephen Collins
Regardless of how it is characterised, Michael Strassen's production of Tommy is a genuine triumph, practically perfect in every way. From the first note, it grabs you by …
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 07:22AMBy Stephen Collins
Christian James is a wonderful Pinocchio. He completely captures the sense of the character's otherness and separation (being living wood) as well as a newcomer's desire t…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 06:17AM 
