Category: Musicals

Posted in Greenwich Theatre LGBTQ+ Musicals Theatre

Review: Bare, Greenwich Theatre

“The boys have gonorrhea, now they burn for you each time they pee” Not really being a…

Posted in Andrew Lloyd Webber Musicals Theatre West End

Preview: Stephen Ward The Musical

“I invented a new way of lie, some might call it unconventional, All that stuffy post-war Englishness,…

Posted in Musicals Theatre

Review: Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, New Wimbledon Theatre

“That was some mighty fine dancing” Seven young men enter a backwoods Oregon town, kidnap a woman…

Posted in Leeds Playhouse Musicals Not-London Stephen Sondheim Theatre UK

Review: Sweeney Todd, West Yorkshire Playhouse

“You shouldn’t harm nobody” It is always good to hear that major UK theatres are co-producing shows,…

Posted in Musicals National Theatre Samuel Adamson Theatre Theatre review Top plays of 2013

Review: The Light Princess, National Theatre

“You are, you are…Althea, you are…changing the world for me” Long awaited and long gestated, Tori Amos…

Posted in Musicals Theatre Union Theatre

Review: The Boys from Syracuse, Union Theatre

“Keep your fingers under control” As a Rodgers and Hart musical from the late 1930s, The Boys…

Posted in Musicals National Theatre Samuel Adamson Theatre

(P)review – The Light Princess, National Theatre

Any thought that I might have attended The Critics’ Circle Centenary Conference were immediately quashed when I…

Posted in Musicals Theatre Union Theatre

Review: On A Clear Day You Can See Forever, Union Theatre

“How it will astound you…” Alongside the rightly lauded all-male Gilbert and Sullivans, the Union Theatre in…

Posted in Musicals Theatre Upstairs at the Gatehouse

Review: When Midnight Strikes, Upstairs at the Gatehouse

“Making resolutions we’ll hold on fast” Abigail may have been the one holding the party in the…