Friday, June 26, 2015
By 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…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 04:55AMWednesday, June 24, 2015
By Stephen Collins
This is a play where the inhabitants of a Nunnery are slain by poisoned porridge; where the daughter of a Jew becomes a Christian Nun, twice; where, having purchased a Thr…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 06:32AMTuesday, June 23, 2015
By Stephen Collins
Findlay's production of The Merchant Of Venice, like all great productions of Shakespeare, is brimming with ideas, spoken with assurance and intelligence, and illuminates …
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 07:19AMMonday, June 15, 2015
By Stephen Collins
This is Oresteia, not The Oresteia, the trilogy of plays (Agamennon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides) which won Aeschylus a prize in 458BC and which is considered the …
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 06:53AMBy Stephen Collins
James Dacre takes full advantage of the play's many moods and shifts of emphasis and style, with the result that the evening is rambunctious and thoroughly engaging: somet…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 04:59AMWednesday, June 10, 2015
By Stephen Collins
Marber is not writing just about football. The play is fundamentally about notions of masculinity as well as about modern society. The trio represents a kind of football h…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 04:26PMTuesday, June 9, 2015
By Stephen Collins
The cast, like a fine soufflé, is full of first rate choices and rises to the occasion in exactly the right way. The singing here is glorious. The Gershwins make a lot of…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 12:22PMThursday, June 4, 2015
By Stephen Collins
It's a great story, but the show's most glittering treasure is its music. There are folk tunes, love songs, impassioned ballads, comedy numbers, patter songs, soaring melo…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 12:31PMMonday, June 1, 2015
By Stephen Collins
Michael Strassen's richly detailed, splendidly cast, and lovingly staged premiere production of Duncton Wood (music and lyrics from Mark Carroll, book by James Peries, ada…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 04:24AMFriday, May 29, 2015
By Stephen Collins
10 Best New Plays in London 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 –…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 01:29PMBy 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 12:27PMBy Stephen Collins
The unstoppable, extraordinary Cynthia Erivo proved, twice, what a potent combination Brown's music and lyrics can be in the hands of a singer whose voice can electrify ev…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 05:09AMBy Stephen Collins
It is genuinely delightful to be able to report that anyone, child, adult, theatre sceptic or theatre lover, should have no hesitation in snaffling a ticket to the one man…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 04:36AMThursday, May 28, 2015
By Stephen Collins
Blanche McIntyre, whose revival of As You Like It now at the Globe, uses every trick in the book to make Shakespeare's play clear (it is, very), risqué (it is, very), eng…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 05:43AMWednesday, May 27, 2015
By Stephen Collins
Of all the cast, it is the gifted Susannah Fielding who comes closest to the right style of acting. She really is a tremendous performer, winning in her winsome style, wit…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 03:59AMMonday, May 25, 2015
By Stephen Collins
Tony, Tony, Tony… On June 7, the 69th Annual Tony Awards will be presented in a glittering ceremony hosted by Kristin Chenoweth and Alan Cumming. As, arguably, the most …
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 08:34AMFriday, May 22, 2015
By Stephen Collins
Despite its trappings and narrative, this is not a play about Anzac Day, the public holiday in Australia where attention is paid to those who fought for their country in w…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 04:26AMThursday, May 21, 2015
By Stephen Collins
On the strength of this first, tentative outing, concerts like this could come to rival those staged in the Encores! series in New York or by the Production Company in Aus…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 06:28AMMonday, May 18, 2015
By Stephen Collins
This is a genuinely terrific night in the musical theatre. Gypsy aside, there is nothing to touch it currently playing in London in terms of value for money and sheer, unr…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 12:21PMThursday, May 14, 2015
By Stephen Collins
The first fifteen minutes or so of Act Two are as good as, if not the equal of, any fifteen minutes of any musical currently playing on the West End (the final fifteen min…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 05:59PMTuesday, May 12, 2015
By Stephen Collins
The play strikes one as more comic, at least in the first Act, than it is played here under James Grieve's direction. More Thin Blue Line and less Z Cars might have helped…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 10:40AMSunday, May 10, 2015
By Stephen Collins
What is most admirable about Gary Lloyd's directorial vision here is that no attempt is made to recreate the film, the book or even the way this musical has been produced …
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 11:35AMFriday, May 8, 2015
By Stephen Collins
Felicity Kendal is a triumph as the effervescent, self-indulgent diva that is Judith. Her throaty, raspy tones; the endless lighting and stubbing out of cigarettes; the ca…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 11:27AMThursday, May 7, 2015
By Stephen Collins
It has everything: dirty, jazzy songs sung lustily; knob jokes; fake brawls; knickers tossed to the audience; knob jokes; sex scenes of all kinds; an altercation with a ga…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 09:00AMWednesday, May 6, 2015
By Stephen Collins
There is something undeniably fascinating about watching strangers find common ground, about seeing a team form in adverse circumstances, especially where, as here, the pa…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 07:21AMBy Stephen Collins
American Buffalo Wyndham’s Theatre 2 May 2015 3 Stars Book Tickets His whole body is a snarl of anger, resentment, pain. His shaved head suggests an innate meanness,…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 06:40AMBy Stephen Collins
There is no complaint about the writing. Frayn creates situations and conveys ideas quickly and cleverly. His knowledge of human kind and its foibles, the things which int…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 06:07AMBy Stephen Collins
Directed by Robert Shaw, this fifty minute satirical monologue is well worth seeing for Olivia Poulet's gifted comic turn. She extracts the humour rather as a surgeon lanc…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 05:36AMFriday, May 1, 2015
By Stephen Collins
10 Best New Plays in London 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 –…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 01:09PMBy Stephen Collins
Set firmly in its time, circa 1597, with costumes and accoutrements which establish an exotic, far away and, most importantly, bygone era, Munby avoids the great questions…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 12:46PMBy 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 11:02AM 
