Supported by the superb musicianship of Will Van Dyke and The Whiskey 5, Ashford is an effortlessly delightful performer, whether ripping through the vocal splendour of Dreamgirls' 'One Nigh…
Music, soft as easy listening. That's the somewhat surprising turn of events on Marin Mazzie's album Make Your Own Kind of Music, recorded live at her cabaret show at 54 Below.
The rivalry between beauty moguls Helena Rubinstein and Elizabeth Arden has proven a rich one for theatrical exploitation, impressively so given that the pair never actually met.
Here's a round-up of interesting titbits on upcoming productions Son of a Preacher Man and Jane Eyre, plus a new release from West End diva Madalena Alberto.
My heart jumped for joy when the Union Theatre announced their revival of Salad Days as the Julian Slade and Dorothy Reynolds classic is probably one of my favourite musicals (and following …
It is tempting to think that this revival of Alexi Kaye Campbell's 2009 play Apologia was mooted simply so that the above line could get the laughs it richly deserves for its prescience. As …
From the atmospheric parade of its opening to the desperate brutality with which it ends, Ricky Dukes' production immerses its audience in a world of toxic masculinity and political power-pl…
I'm not much of a fan of farce (my fault I fear...) and only really booked for two reasons. 1 - it's on the list. And 2 - Sinéad Matthews, future queen of all our hearts.
Picking at the scab of the Brexit vote and the ongoing refugee crisis, Muthy reveals the kind of festering wound that is shocking to see, even as it has infected so many levels of our societ…
I may be the wrong target audience for Anastasia, currently doing decent business on Broadway, being 18 when the film came out and never having made the effort to see it since.
It's no secret that director Yaël Farber creates the most immersive of worlds in her theatre but it is still a sensory thrill to allow yourself to submerge entirely into it.
"I'll be an inspirationA musical sensation"The cast recording for USHERS: The Front Of House Musical was released in advance of its 2014 run at the Charing Cross Theatre but ever the trail-b…
Reviewing in list form: for and against Christopher Shinn's new play AGAINST, starring Ben Whishaw and Amanda Hale, at the Almeida Theatre.
A 1990s musical of an 80s film - nostalgia has a lot to answer for but it was to Maltby Jr and Shires' 1996 adaptation of the Tom Hanks-starring film that producers turned for their big Chri…
As fizzy as a sherbet dip, as baffling as the rules of cricket, as delightful as the finest afternoon tea, Julian Slade and Dorothy Reynolds' Salad Days is quite possibly the best classic Br…
Blue Stockings is set at the turn of the last century in the hallowed grounds of the University of Cambridge, Girton College to be precise, the first to admit women.
On The Town is an undoubtedly frivolous show, a plot as light as gossamer, but seeing it recently at the Open Air Theatre reminded me just how tuneful a musical it is.
With the National's highly anticipated production of Follies about to start previews, I thought I'd listen to about a hundred different versions of perhaps its most famous song - Losing My M…
As A Spoonful of Sherman, a tribute to three generations of Sherman family music, including childhood classics by the Sherman Brothers, continues Live at Zedel until 20 August 2017, Ian Fost…
As A Spoonful of Sherman, a tribute to three generations of Sherman family music, including childhood classics by the Sherman Brothers, continues Live at Zedel until 20 August 2017, Ian Fost…
As A Spoonful of Sherman, a tribute to three generations of Sherman family music, including childhood classics by the Sherman Brothers, continues Live at Zedel until 20 August 2017, Ian Fost…
I saw, and rather liked, the musical of Finding Neverland when it premiered in Leicester back in 2012 but given the extreme redevelopment it underwent thanks to Harvey Weinstein's involveme…
Hitting the West End just before I moved to London and well before I started blogging, Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Woman In White has the ignominy of being one of his less successful shows.
The chance to see see the Peter Quilter play Glorious! with the marvellous Stella Gonet in the lead was one I gladly took. It also meant my first trip to the Frinton Summer Theatre out by th…
Telling the contrasting but complementary stories of two young women who have gone missing - one from t'north, one from the capital - Abigail Hood's Dangling is a brutal, at times harrowing …