369 stories by "Julian Eaves"
By Julian Eaves
If you see nothing else this year, see this! It is a hallucinogenic wander through a maze of brilliantly realised spaces, evoking scenes and adventures from the eternally att…
By Julian Eaves
Overall, Whisper House is an interesting experiment, a novel departure from the ‘norms’ of musical theatre. If it doesn’t quite fulfill its ambitions, well,…
By Julian Eaves
There is a simplicity to the characters which is artless and appealing in its own way, but it also makes them rather thinly drawn, and even over the course of an hour, we fin…
By Julian Eaves
Kray Kray is another terrific feather in the cap of the enterprising Theatre N16 and not to be missed.
This post REVIEW: Kray Kray, Theatre N16 âœâœâœâœ firs…
By Julian Eaves
If you can get a ticket for the remaining shows, do. If not, she’ll be at the Wyndham’s as ‘Lady Day’ in May. Perfect.
This post REVIEW: Audra McDonal…
By Julian Eaves
Go for the music, and you'll have a ball.
This post REVIEW: This Joint Is Jumpin’, The Other Palace Studio âœâœâœâœ first appeared on British Theatre. …
By Julian Eaves
Treading similar terrain as the recently seen ‘Mrs Henderson Presents', it has an infectious score, well-written dialogue, and a story that revolves around more than on…
By Julian Eaves
This is a worthwhile exercise, it is well produced, well acted and well nigh bound to leave you thinking that, as far as the development of nineteenth century British theatre…
By Julian Eaves
The Life Southwark Playhouse 29th March 2017 5 Stars Book Now Every now and then, a musical comes along that talks to us as grown-ups. It doesn't happen very often, but when …
By Julian Eaves
Tennant offers what the West End loves: a tour-de-force performance that looks totally at home in the gilded, plush, ornate interior of this exquisite fin-de-siecle theatre.
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By Julian Eaves
Patterson's aim is to create a light comedy, and he has succeeded pretty well.
This post REVIEW: Threesome, Union Theatre âœâœâœ first appeared on British Theatr…
By Julian Eaves
These songs rank amongst Sondheim's best, and the witty, light-as-air confection of the book is a constant joy, managing to stay always earthy and 'grounded', no matter how f…
By Julian Eaves
The key to all this is John Partridge's iconic rendition of the complex, fascinating, physically and emotionally demanding role of Albin: an exercise in stagecraft of the hig…
By Julian Eaves
Right from the first notes of the thrilling overture, this was going to be a night no one present would ever forget.
This post REVIEW: Honeymoon In Vegas In Concert, London P…
By Julian Eaves
There’s lots of gentle humour, gentle pathos, gentle social critique, and a gently uplifting ‘message’ to go away with at the end.
This post REVIEW: Souther…
By Julian Eaves
It’s very pleasant, often amusing, and if it doesn’t plumb any depths in its conventional story of growing up.
This post REVIEW: The Diary Of A Teenage Girl, Sout…
By Julian Eaves
The great, central achievement of this production is in the two-handed coup of Jeremy Legat and Ed MacArthur’s dazzling performance as duetting singer-actor-dancer pian…
By Julian Eaves
It’s a very clever idea, and writer Tom Stenton is to be congratulated for having formulated it and brought it thus far along the road to taking theatrical shape.
This …
By Julian Eaves
If you like simple – very simple – soap-operas about nice middle-class people, who drink lots of prosecco and talk at inordinate length and to no great purpose ab…
By Julian Eaves
By the time the reprise of the title song reappeared as 'Your Voice' and then led us into the finale ultimo of 'Encore!', we were ready to leave the cabaret with fond feeling…
By Julian Eaves
Cases Phoenix Artist Club Sunday 12th February 2017 A new work by the breathtakingly talented Dominic Powell (who is barely into his third decade) is always a cause for celeb…
By Julian Eaves
This is the greatest American musical since ‘Sweeney Todd’. I have seen it twice this week, in the wonderful production by the American director, Victoria Bussert…
By Julian Eaves
This delicious new musical is the wittiest, most elegant and most extraordinary new show on offer in town right now.
This post REVIEW: The Sorrows Of Satan, Tristan Bates The…
By Julian Eaves
The wonder of Aria Entertainments' revues is their simplicity and coherence: two qualities easy to strive for, but easy to miss in this deceptively simple form.
This post REV…
By Julian Eaves
Julian Eaves attended a preview presentation of new musical The Sorcerer's Apprentice by Ben Frost and Richard Hough. The wonderfully gifted songwriting team of Ben Frost (mu…
