Category: Musicals

Posted in Gilbert and Sullivan Richmond Theatre Theatre

Review: The Pirates of Penzance, Richmond Theatre

“We can’t make piracy pay” Gilbert and Sullivan’s titular buccaneers may struggle with a lack of a…

Posted in Musicals Theatre West End

Review: Gypsy, Savoy Theatre

“Ready or not, here comes Mama…” These days, it’s more of a surprise when the big musicals…

Posted in Musicals Theatre

Review: Rumpy Pumpy, Landor Theatre

“Boobs, tubes, jellies and lubes  All do the trick if the problem’s a prick”  You can head…

Posted in Musicals Richard Bean Theatre West End

Review: the final night of Made in Dagenham, Adelphi

“Everybody out…” So here we have it, barely six months after opening, the machinery at Ford Dagenham…

Posted in Broadway David Hare Kander + Ebb Lin-Manuel Miranda Musicals Not-London Outer Critics Circle Awards Penelope Skinner Peter Morgan Simon Stephens Stephen Adly Guirgis Stephen Sondheim Theatre Theatre awards

Nominations for 2014-2015 Outer Critics Circle Awards

John Gassner Playwriting Award (Presented for an American play, preferably by a new playwright) Ayad Akhtar, The…

Posted in Broadway Duncan Macmillan Ivo van Hove Jeanine Tesori Lin-Manuel Miranda Lucille Lortel Awards Musicals Not-London Stephen Adly Guirgis Stephen Sondheim Suzan-Lori Parks Terrence McNally Theatre Theatre awards Tom Stoppard

Nominations for 2015 Lucille Lortel Awards

Outstanding Play Between Riverside and Crazy Produced by Atlantic Theater Company. Written by Stephen Adly Guirgis Father…

Posted in Cast Recordings Music Musicals

Album Review: Paradise Lost (Studio Cast Recording)

“If I go to Heaven, my fate is assured”  Full disclosure first, I was a contributor to…

Posted in Andrew Lloyd Webber Film Musicals

Easter DVD Review: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat

“How we miss his entertaining dreams” An impromptu Easter treat came courtesy of a charity shop in…

Posted in Musicals Stephen Sondheim Theatre

Review: Sweeney Todd, London Coliseum

“At the top of the hole sit the privileged few” And it is mostly the privileged few…