By 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 06:17AMBy Stephen Collins Proud’s choreography is redolent with an acute understanding of all this and everything he does aims to help involvement in and understanding of the work’s intent. The…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 07:41PMBy Stephen Collins The Globe is not really a space for claustrophobic intense drama and this production really brings that home. This production would look and feel very different in the Sam…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 09:06AMBy Stephen Collins The utterly reliable Laura Pitt-Pulford brings strength, warmth and thoughtfulness to Milly - frankly, she outdoes Jane Powell by some distance. Her Milly is completely be…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 11:48AMBy Stephen Collins Vocally, Madeleine Haynes was more than a match for the requirements of Strouse's score. She handled the plaintive "Maybe" like a seasoned trooper, and belted out "Tomorro…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 05:13PMBy Stephen Collins This is Whishaw's show - no question. He is a force of nature, fiercely unearthing every moment of nuance, humour and purpose from the text and giving a totally committed,…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 04:54PMBy 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 11:40AMBy Stephen Collins The comic performance of the night, and the source of most consistent pleasure, came from the very talented Tom Edden who made an acting masterclass out of the portrayal o…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 10:50AMBy 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 07:41AMBy 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 06:19AMBy Stephen Collins Rachel Kavanaugh presents us with a wily, almost feral Aunt Eller, a metrosexual Curly, a tomboy Laurey, an arch but staunchly feminine Ado Annie, a profoundly stupid but …
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 10:07AMBy Stephen Collins Happily, Oh! Carol provides a thoroughly entertaining and exuberant cross-section of Sedaka's work. There are the hits but also lesser remembered works, and truly no numbe…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 09:27AMBy Stephen Collins The Spitfire Grill is a musical treat. James Valco's score is richly rewarding and creates a genuinely engaging musical atmosphere which helps shape and drive the narrativ…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 11:50PMBy Stephen Collins In Jenna Russell, Damian Humbley and Cynthia Erivo, Lenson has assembled three of the best, most exciting performers of musical theatre in London. Each performer turns in …
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 05:30PMBy Stephen Collins The result here is that this is more the Comedy of Richard II than the Tragedy of Richard II. There is an unseemly pursuit of laughter – characterisations are extreme, l…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 12:19PMBy Stephen Collins Ball is an exceptional, utterly convincing Mack. He completely gets under the skin of the character, finding precisely the right level to pitch every moment of anger, driv…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 06:42PMBy Stephen Collins The Invisible is a soap opera featuring some beautifully written female characters. It might skirt around the issue of legal aid cuts and the invisibility of some members …
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 07:41AMBy Stephen Collins There are shreds and patches of key songs, which, like Wagnerian leitmotifs, bind the whole experience, make it less a concert and more a pop/rock/r&b opera. "What's i…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 09:18AMBy Stephen Collins This is a curious production of Othello. You get the bones of the story, clearly, but the flesh, the marrow, the heart - all of which depends upon the rich characters of t…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 12:52PMBy Stephen Collins Henry Goodman is assured and magnetic as the titular Volpone. He gives a larger than life performance which suits - entirely - Johnson's larger than life character. In the…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 11:36AMBy Stephen Collins Viewed one way, Hoffman's play is not a play about AIDS and its repercussions; it is a play about ignorance, discrimination and fear. Viewed that way, it is still a play o…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 05:33AMBy Stephen Collins Watching Julie Atherton, Simon Lipkin, Gina Best and Samuel Holmes work their magic, individually, in couples, and as a quartet, it was difficult not to wonder if there wa…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 05:11AMBy Stephen Collins Director AdrianNoble strikes gold in the quartet of lovers: Gwendolyn, Jack, Cicely and Algernon. Without any question, Emily Barber and Imogen Doel are utterly exquisite,…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 07:02PMBy Stephen Collins This is a feel-good production of a difficult play. The very best thing about it is Dominic Rowan’s exceptionally charismatic Duke. In the second half, particularly, the…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 01:32PMBy 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 09:36AMBy Stephen Collins The star of the show, in truth, is Carole Todd's spirited, cheeky, and knowing choreography, which brings out the very best in the cast and masterfully establishes high re…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 08:29AMBy 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 05:38AMBy Stephen Collins Crouch delights in theatre which unsettles and pushes boundaries and An Oak Tree is no exception. In parts, it is brilliant and it is never less than compelling – at lea…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 08:38AMBy Stephen Collins It's not that this is a bad play; it's more that it is not really a play at all. It's a series of separate scenes, mostly two-handers, which chiefly concern the central ch…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 06:27AMBy Stephen Collins Betts' adaptation (re-imagining is perhaps more accurate) certainly tries to evoke the same effect Chekhov must have had on his original audiences. There is a robust moder…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 05:21AMBy Stephen Collins Act Two is practically perfect. It starts with a fabulous number for the girls, Glorious, and it never looks back. It's full of great music from Goodall and the range of s…
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