Tag: Anna Francolini

Posted in Live Music Musicals Stephen Sondheim Theatre West End

Review: Hey, Old Friends, Theatre Royal Drury Lane

“Stop worrying where you’re going—move on” Theatreland does like to make sure every anniversary gets marked somehow…

Posted in Cast Recordings Music Musicals Stephen Sondheim

Album Review: Saturday Night (Original London Cast)

  “I guess the man means more than the means” For a still-living composer, Stephen Sondheim’s back…

Posted in Cast Recordings Music Stephen Sondheim

Album Review: Company (1996 London Cast Recording)

 “It’s things like using force together, Shouting till you’re hoarse together, Getting a divorce together” Sam Mendes’…

Posted in Manchester International Festival Moira Buffini Musicals Not-London Theatre UK

Review: wonder.land, Palace Theatre

“You have to live in this world” The lure of falling down the rabbit hole is one…

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 Almeida Theatre fosterIANs Internationaal Theater Amsterdam Ivo van Hove Royal Exchange Simon Stone Theatre Top moments Young Vic

11 of my top moments in a theatre in 2014

I’ll be doing a regular top 10 alongside all the other end-of-year totting up of the theatrical…

Posted in Almeida Theatre Theatre

Review: Our Town, Almeida Theatre

“The morning star always get wonderful bright the minute before it has to go” Some images sear…

Posted in Albums Alexander S Bermange Music

Album Review: Weird and Wonderful

  “”You seemed uplifted but a little upset” Alexander S Bermange is a composer and lyricist who…

Posted in Musicals Not-London Royal Exchange Theatre UK

Review: That Day We Sang, Royal Exchange

“It’s not exactly Roman Holiday, is it?” Victoria Wood’s That Day We Sang premiered at the Manchester…