369 stories by "Julian Eaves"
By Julian Eaves
As harmless, seasonal larking about goes, this show is an undemanding couple of hours: if you go to it with an abundant admiration of the author and/or subject matter, you ma…
By Julian Eaves
As with that show, it is only possible to 'warm' to the characters (and we have to take their side one way or another) if they can charm us. At present, the songs do that apl…
By Julian Eaves
I came away from the performance greatly impressed by the technical achievement in constructing an ingenious chamber musical with the material, but rather in the dark about w…
By Julian Eaves
It's huge fun, and races past in barely over an hour, hitting many more pleasure-spots than lulls.
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By Julian Eaves
Hannah Elsy met Julian Eaves to discuss why she set up The Lowdown, the only public scratch night exclusively for new musical theatre in London.
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By Julian Eaves
All in all, this collaboration between the Chichester Festival Theatre and Cameron Mackintosh is a splendidly handsome revival of a much-loved classic story, offering a fresh…
By Julian Eaves
This is about as perfect a production of Philip Ridley’s scary monodrama – a kind of ‘The Events’, except with loads more jokes, and much less singing…
By Julian Eaves
What we have here is a clear successor to ‘Mamma Mia’, in that the show takes a seminal back-catalogue and lifts from it a mix of tracks to elaborate and decorate…
By Julian Eaves
Regretfully, I have to note that I personally didn't find any work of that quality in this particular offering.
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By Julian Eaves
In miniature, a marvelous insight into the life and work of artists in musical theatre, with something a little bit different about it, drawing a nice crowd, reminding us of …
By Julian Eaves
This is a remarkable and magnificent work, rich in detail and meaning, and – as we approach another decisive moment in the US (and therefore also global) history –…
By Julian Eaves
There is a lot, in fact, in the writing – and delivery – that reminds one of the best female stand-up comedy, and the audience here seems to be very like the audi…
By Julian Eaves
The show has been seen in London several times recently, and it is clearly a work that repays revisitation, and reinterpretation. I will certainly be back to see this version…
By Julian Eaves
That such a heavyweight should be having his work showcased by such a (still) small company in a fringe studio says a lot about him and a lot about the venue and its visitors…
By Julian Eaves
Wonderful Town Ye Olde Rose And Crowne Pub Theatre 14 October 2016 Book Tickets When Tim McArthur and Aaron Clingham started up this pub theatre eight years ago, I wonder how…
By Julian Eaves
Andrew Wright's production does what it can to make us concentrate on the show's many felicities. However, it may take more than bracing direction and lively movement to brin…
By Julian Eaves
This is the funniest show of its kind since ‘Forbidden Broadway’.
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By Julian Eaves
This is very New York. A constant hurly-burly of influences and crossed paths, with the players packed into the smallest space possible
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By Julian Eaves
This is the most important and exciting rediscovery of a 'lost' British musical since the 1982 King's Head Theatre revival of Vivian Ellis's 'Mr Cinders'
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By Julian Eaves
Brilliantly well-written dialogue is always great to hear, especially when delivered with cut-glass panache as by this super quartet: in addition to the author, we have Lee C…
By Julian Eaves
It was a HUGE relief when it was all over. Not least for the accused, perhaps, who – like the rest of the cast – had had the almost impossible task of putting acr…
By Julian Eaves
Silver takes Williams’ American milieu and shifts it deftly – without changing a single word of the text – into the seedy, East-End-by-the-seaside, down-at-…
By Julian Eaves
So, should one see this show? In my book, even if only for the closing minutes, then most definitely. Bateman and Hughes are major new talents and this is an indicator that m…
By Julian Eaves
And the company, all giving their energies for a song and dance, make this the wonder it is: a rollicking night out, and also a landmark in the development of another great B…
By Julian Eaves
Musically, this is a serious work, that demands a lot of its listeners; but it repays handsomely in its dramatic and aesthetic effects.
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