Category: Musicals

Posted in Almeida Theatre August Strindberg Barbican Theatre Federico García Lorca fosterIANs Gilbert and Sullivan Ivor Novello John Webster Martin Crimp Musicals Not-London Old Vic Theatre Union Theatre West End

Shows I am looking forward to in 2012

Though the temptation is strong, and the actuality may well prove so, I don’t think I will…

Posted in Musicals Not-London Sheffield Theatres Stephen Sondheim Theatre Theatre review Top plays of 2011 UK

Review: Company, Sheffield Crucible

“You ever wish you didn’t get married?” This trip up to Sheffield to see Company at the…

Posted in Musicals Theatre Upstairs at the Gatehouse

Review: Guys and Dolls, Upstairs at the Gatehouse

“What’s happening all over? I’ll tell you what’s happening all over” 2011 really has been a fantastic…

Posted in Musicals Theatre

Review: Little Women The Musical, LOST Theatre

“Mother says its going to be a hard winter for everyone” With music and lyrics by Lionel…

Posted in Dance Donmar Warehouse Lyric Hammersmith Mike Bartlett Musicals Opera Propeller RSC Shakespeare Shakespeare's Globe Sheffield Theatres Theatre Theatre awards UK UK Theatre Awards

Full list of 2011 UK Theatre Awards winners

Best Performance in a Play Derek Jacobi for KING LEAR: A Donmar Warehouse production at the Grand…

Posted in Musicals Oscar Wilde Riverside Studios Theatre

Review: The Importance of Being Earnest – a new musical, Riverside Studios

“A handbag…?!”   Last year, Hammersmith’s Riverside Studios scored itself quite the sleeper hit of the festive…

Posted in Andrew Lloyd Webber Anthony Neilson April De Angelis Barbican Theatre Bridge Project David Lindsay-Abaire Dennis Kelly Donmar Warehouse Eugene O'Neill Hampstead Theatre Jason Robert Brown Jeanine Tesori Lyric Hammersmith Mark Gatiss Menier Chocolate Factory Mike Leigh Morgan Lloyd Malcolm National Theatre Old Vic Open Air Theatre Penelope Skinner Richard Bean Royal Court RSC Shakespeare Shakespeare's Globe Southwark Playhouse Stiles + Drewe Terence Rattigan Theatre awards Union Theatre Vivienne Franzmann What's On Stage Awards

2012 What’s On Stage Award nominations

BEST ACTOR IN A PLAY James Corden – One Man, Two Guvnors at the National, Lyttelton & Adelphi  Benedict…

Posted in Film John Logan Musicals Stephen Sondheim

Film Review: Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)

“Eminently practical and yet appropriate as always” I’ve been experimenting with a few DVD reviews over the…

Posted in Albums Christmas Howard Goodall Music

Album Review: Howard Goodall’s Enchanted Carols

  “What does it mean, this strange and ancient mystery” I actually got this CD for Christmas…