REVIEW: Big Shot, London Irish Centre ★★★
By Julian Eaves There really is no infrastructure in Ireland for making work of this kind, which makes the achievement all the more striking. Everyone has another job, or two, and time has t…
By Julian Eaves There really is no infrastructure in Ireland for making work of this kind, which makes the achievement all the more striking. Everyone has another job, or two, and time has t…
By Julian Eaves Nevertheless, this is another creditable creation from the production stables of Sasha Regan and underlines her continuing commitment to the development of new British musica…
By Julian Eaves Cadogan Hall brought a lavish concert performance of the piece to its stage, and – once again – we saw and heard just why we should value this work amongst the hi…
By Julian Eaves If anyone loves the music of Caro Emerald, then they'll love this feast of her songs presented in a dramatic context. If anyone does not know her music, or has yet to be pers…
By Julian Eaves Sid Above The Arts 21 September 2016 5 Stars Book Tickets If the last you heard of Sid Vicious was seeing Gary Oldman gradually die of heroin addiction in Alex Cox's 1986 bio…
By Julian Eaves Added to this is the factor of Lippa's music and Greenwald's lyrics (they share credits for the book). Both can be bright, incisive, strongly characterised and emotionally ex…
By Julian Eaves There is sometimes a rawness to the action, an absence of polish, but it is always convincing and involving: in fact, the wonderful paradox here is that, as the play progress…
By Julian Eaves This current production looks like an object lesson in how to fuse the best of experienced industry leaders with dynamic new talent. And the writing-directing-choreographing …
By Julian Eaves Gregory S. Moss is an ingenious playwright who has created a sequence of tableaux, each of which can be understood as a ‘cover’ of a different musical ‘trac…
By Julian Eaves Above all, this is a drama that might occur in anyone’s life: the sheer everyday nature of the story is in fact its raison d’etre. While it may not bark for atten…
By Julian Eaves You must judge for yourself whether you think this may or may not the case with this play. Whatever decision you arrive at, you might also like to consider what effect would …
By Julian Eaves The show’s score is one that you want – you need – to revisit again and again. Till and his collaborators are such major talents that there isn’t a si…
By Julian Eaves The Dark Tower Youth Music Theatre, CLF Cafe, Bussey Building, Peckham Rye Lane, Wednesday 24th August 2016 5 Stars This is probably the biggest musical theatre event of the …
By Julian Eaves But the message this work has to speak to us is not going to be dismissed: in an era when the management of the world by politicians is so signally lacking in hope, this stor…
By Julian Eaves The genius of this work is that it opens up to us what is really great about the writer: his vision of humanity, his craft as a composer of lyrical epics of the struggle of p…
By Julian Eaves With a script and score this good, with such a robustly simple and flexible and clear set-up and artists of such sterling quality, this was like being at a really, really goo…
By Julian Eaves H G Wells could see into the future, and he gave us his alter ego – the ebullient draper’s boy, Kipps, who is even now, thanks to the combined efforts of Anthony …
By Julian Eaves Hartwell has crafted a play that is clearly taking him into an altogether more sophisticated and craftsmanlike area. Yosiphon and this excellent company are his dream compani…
By Julian Eaves Behind the scenes across the UK talented writers are working on great new ideas for musicals. Many will never be seen and many need support to get onto the stage. BritishThea…