40 stories by "Stephen Farrow"
It's probably damning Kinky Boots with faint praise to say that it's one of the better recent-ish musicals adapted from recent-ish films. It might also raise your expectations slightly too f…
 Take one Shakespeare comedy. Fillet out most of the poetry, throw in an eclectic set of songs by Shaina Taub, add a brightly-coloured Notting Hill streetscape (by Rob Jones), a thirty-m…
By the time the lights fade on the final scene of the Bridge Theatre's production of what one must assume is the unrevised first draft of Martin McDonagh's very very very uneven new play A V…
Understudies do a tremendous job in difficult circumstances, and often don't get enough credit for it. I say this upfront because at the performance I saw of Alan Bennett's new play Alleluja…
It's probably as well to say this upfront: Stefano Massini's The Lehman Trilogy, at least as adapted into English by Ben Power, is basically an extended theatrical stunt. Three (superlative)…
 Good news/bad news. Danny Rubin and Tim Minchin's new musical adaptation of Rubin and Harold Ramis's Groundhog Day deserves every single one of the five-star reviews it received last we…
Or, some collected thoughts on Wednesday's matinee performance of the pre-West End tour of Chichester Festival Theatre's (mostly terrific) revival of Guys and Dolls: First, heaven. Guys and …
…and I sort of wish it didn't. There's nothing at all wrong with the production. In fact, I almost don't have enough superlatives to describe the production. Under the artistic direction o…
Or, some reflections on the experience of attending Wednesday's matinée performance of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert at the Opera House in Manchester: It's fun, sometimes relentlessly so. …
This is a photograph of the front of one of the buses I took to get home this evening, taken so that I could get a record of the vehicle number. What you can't see in this photograph is the …
I love theatre. I love going to the theatre more than very nearly anything else. I go to the theatre as often as I can (although not always as often as I'd like), and I'll see very nearly an…
This afternoon, I saw the current UK tour of The King and I at the Liverpool Empire. Unless hell freezes over, or I get forced to at gunpoint, or I suffer some kind of permanent concussion, …
They're ba-aack! And this week they're in Leeds. Sister Act: The Musical has hit the road in Britain, billed as being 'direct from the London Palladium'. 'Direct', in this case, involves a 7…
Or rather, afternoon, although Thursday evening was in some ways similarly unenchanting. We'll get to that in a minute. Today, I'm afraid, was just one of those days. I had a ticket this aft…
Or, My Trip to the Apple Store. On the enjoyment scale, it did not rate ten out of ten. [Edit " there is more to this story. Apple subsequently made amends, spectacularly. I'm leaving this p…
