Category: Musicals
Review: The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 ¾, Menier Chocolate Factory
“You may be 13 but you’re still an adolescent boy” After premiering at the Curve Theatre in…
Album Review: Half A Sixpence (2016 London Cast Recording)
“Um-tiddly-um-pum-um-pum-pum Stick it in your fam’ly album” With Half A Sixpence due to close in the…
Album Review: Betty Buckley – Quintessence (2008)
“You drove me, nearly drove me, out of my head” It seems a little churlish to criticise…
Review: Girl From The North Country, Old Vic
“Everything’s a little upside down As a matter of fact the wheels have stopped” I’m no great…
Album Reviews: Bonnie Langford – Jazz at the Theatre / Laura Osnes – If I Tell You / Renée & Bryn: Under the Stars
The trio of album reviews takes in Bonnie Langford – Jazz at the Theatre, Laura Osnes –…
Review: Fiddler on the Roof, Chichester Festival Theatre
“How can I hope to make you understand” Though my life has long been filled with musicals,…
Review: The Hired Man, Union Theatre
“We’re not hurried, or flurried, or worried, for ourselves” The Hired Man remains one of my all-time…
Round-up of news and other interesting things
In the wake of a global shift in politics that saw reality star Donald Trump become the…
Review: Blondel, Union Theatre
“I’m a fool…just a fool” There’s something admirable in the Union Theatre’s admirable determination to work its…
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