Tag: Alexander Hanson

Posted in Rose Theatre Kingston Shakespeare Theatre

Review: Henry VI, The Wars of the Roses at the Rose Theatre Kingston

“Between the red rose and the white  A thousand souls to death and deadly night” Of the…

Posted in Cast Recordings Music Musicals National Theatre Stephen Sondheim

Album Review: Candide (1999 Royal National Theatre Recording)

   “I’ll show my noble stuff by being bright and cheerful!” They don’t make ‘em like they…

Posted in Live Music Music Musicals Stephen Sondheim Theatre

Review: Follies in Concert, Royal Albert Hall

“Flawless charmers Every one” An early birthday from my Aunty Jean saw me get to revisit those…

Posted in Blanche McIntyre The Other Palace Theatre

Review: Accolade, St James Theatre

“Everybody has one vice…” An interesting choice of revival rounded off the One Stage season for emerging…

Posted in Broadway Cast Recordings Music Musicals National Theatre Stephen Sondheim Theatre

Album Review: A Little Night Music (NT vs Broadway Revival Cast recordings)

  “Isn’t it bliss? Don’t you approve?” I always assume that people know where the name of…

Posted in Andrew Lloyd Webber Musicals Theatre West End

Review: Stephen Ward The Musical, Aldwych Theatre

“Manipulation, that’s the technique,  This conversation must not leak”  It’s a curious thing, to take a relatively…

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 Andrew Lloyd Webber Musicals Theatre

Review: Jesus Christ Superstar, O2 Arena

“Tell the mob who sing your song that they are fools and they are wrong” Having gone…

Posted in Anton Chekhov Chichester Festival Theatre Michael Frayn Not-London Theatre UK

Review: Uncle Vanya, Minerva

“I could have been a Dostoevsky” Opening the season for Chichester’s 2012 Festival, celebrating its fiftieth anniversary…