Category: Musicals

Posted in Musicals Theatre West End

Re-review: Ghost the musical, Piccadilly Theatre

“It’s just relief to suspend my disbelief” It feels a bit like I’m cursed when it comes…

Posted in Live Music Music Musicals

Review: The Golden Age of Broadway, Royal Festival Hall

“But now and then he’ll do something wonderful” Despite, or maybe because of, its richly diverse programming,…

Posted in Chichester Festival Theatre Musicals Not-London Theatre UK

Review: Kiss Me, Kate, Chichester Festival Theatre

“But when the thermometer goes right up, and the weather is sizzling hot…” So confident in their…

Posted in Live Music Musicals Theatre West End

Review: Little Women in concert, Playhouse Theatre

“Little women grow” Little Women is one of those enduring classic stories that has continued to resonate…

Posted in Musicals Theatre Union Theatre

Review: The Fix, Union Theatre

“Is it possible to be drunk and have a hangover at the same time” Staged and directed…

Posted in Musicals Theatre

Review: Sister Act the Musical, New Wimbledon Theatre

“When I was still a school girl, standing just about yay high, I saw the face of…

Posted in Broadway Drama Desk Awards Joe DiPietro Musicals Nina Raine Not-London Theatre Theatre awards

Winners of the 2012 Drama Desk Awards

Outstanding Play David Henry Hwang, Chinglish Dan LeFranc, The Big Meal Members of the Plastic Theatre, Unnatural Acts Itamar Moses, Completeness…

Posted in Musicals Open Air Theatre Theatre

Review: Ragtime, Open Air Theatre Regent’s Park

“Giving the nation a new syncopation” Is there a greater opening number to a musical than the…

Posted in Finborough Theatre Musicals Theatre

Review: Merrie England, Finborough Theatre

“No other land could nurse them” The Finborough’s policy of celebrating neglected British musical theatre has unearthed…