Monday 8th July 2019 at the Grand Opera House, York. ⭐️⭐️ Thriller Live commendably tries a different tack when it comes to celebrating its source material. Thanks to creator and executive director Adrian Grant, this is no jukebox musical with loose narrative thrown in. Nor is it a jukebox musical with a whackily entertaining plot... Continue Reading →
Saturday 6th July 2019 at the Young Vic, London. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Death of a Saleman is a hard-hitting and melancholy play. It entertains very little joy but hammers home plenty of gripping drama and it’s in this element that the play remains timeless in appeal. In fact, considering the frightening numbers bandied about on the subject... Continue Reading →
Saturday 1st June 2019 at the Old Vic Theatre, London. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ There isn’t very long left to catch the Old Vic’s production of Arthur Miller’s All My Sons which closes June 8th. The play features a stellar starry cast including Sally Field and Bill Pullman at the helm and offers an intensely melancholy tale of... Continue Reading →
Wednesday 29th April 2019 at the Adelphi Theatre, London. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Based on Adrienne Shelly’s film with Book by Jessie Nelson and much publicised music and lyrics by Sara Bareilles, Waitress the musical comedy has some heavyweight backing. It’s a thoroughly modern affair bringing the harsher realities of life to the musical stage with pathos and... Continue Reading →
Saturday 11th May 2019 at the Vaudeville Theatre, London. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Morgan Lloyd Malcolm’s Emilia has made an indelible mark on many a woman with Emilia if the tears, enthused buzz and unanimous roar of the audience I sat with is anything to go by. Let it be said also that despite a primarily female audience,... Continue Reading →
I have a gripe. It’s about understudies. No, it’s not about the debate of whether or not we should be less enthusiastic about finding ourselves seeing understudies. Nor is it about whether or not we should openly express disappointment when leads are off. It’s not even about the furore surrounding understudies announcing when they’ll be... Continue Reading →
Tuesday 16th April 2019 at the Playhouse Theatre, London. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ From Tradition to If I Were a Rich Man to Matchmaker, Matchmaker, most will know catches of a ditty or two of Jerry Bock’s music and Sheldon Harnick’s lyrics from this show. After a knock out, sell out run at the Menier Chocolate Factory, this... Continue Reading →
Thursday 28th February 2019 at the Gielgud Theatre, London. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Marianne Elliott’s production of Company is pretty damn special - easily the best show I've seen in years. This production, with its finger on the pulse of our times, is a revival of George Furth and Stephen Sondheim’s musical comedy. In it we follow the... Continue Reading →
Wednesday 27th February 2019 at the Phoenix Theatre, London. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Come From Away is first and foremost an excellent piece of ensemble theatre. The show doesn’t fuss with multiple sets or big costume changes and it completely bypasses the formulaic approach found in many musicals. It’s 1hr 40 with no interval, which allows the swirling... Continue Reading →
