Tag: Haydn Gwynne

Posted in Musicals National Theatre Simon Stephens Theatre

Review: The Threepenny Opera, National Theatre

“There will be no moralising tonight” Whatever you think a national theatre should be for, I bloody…

Posted in Film Shakespeare

DVD Review: NOW – in the Wings on a World Stage

“We’re not doing in fucking tights, with whatever those fucking old jock-strap things are called that they…

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

Album Review: City of Angels (Original London Cast Recording 1993)

  “I’m one of a long line of good girls” I was no real fan of the…

Posted in Cast Recordings Music Shakespeare

Album Review: Merry Wives the musical (2006 RSC Cast)

  “He stinks of drink and urine And thinks he’s so alluring” One might have hoped that…

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2015 Laurence Olivier Awards nominations

Best New Play  King Charles III by Mike Bartlett – Almeida / Wyndham’s Taken at Midnight by…

Posted in Musicals Theatre West End

Review: Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Playhouse Theatre

“The car’s OK but where’s the wheels…?” The Broadway production of Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown was…

Posted in Music YouTube

Saturday afternoon music treats

Lucie Jones + Lauren Samuels – Disney Medley A rather adorable medley which sees this likeable pair…

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Radio Review: The Boy At The Back / Chiwawa / Silk: The Clerks’ Room, Jake

“Literature doesn’t teach us anything” Juan Mayorga’s The Boy At The Back turned out to be one…