Tag: Julie Armstrong

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Review: Network, National Theatre

“I’m mad as hell, and I’m not going to take this anymore”  With Network, Lee Hall’s adaptation…

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2017 BroadwayWorld UK Awards Shortlist

Best Actor in a New Production of a Musical Andrew Polec, Bat Out of Hell, London Coliseum…

Posted in Musicals National Theatre Stephen Sondheim Theatre Theatre review

Re-review: Follies, National Theatre

  “Darling, shall we dance?” Not too much more to say about Follies that I didn’t cover…

Posted in Musicals National Theatre Stephen Sondheim Theatre Theatre review Top plays of 2017

Review: Follies, National Theatre

An utterly majestic production of Sondheim’s Follies is a masterpiece for the National Theatre “All things beautiful…

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Album Review: From Here To Eternity (2014 Live Cast Recording)

  “All along knowing that no-one has returned to care” Barely managing six months in the West…

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10 of my top moments in a theatre in 2015

The inevitable end-of-year lists of favourite plays and performances will be soon be coming (I just have…

Posted in Martin Sherman Musicals Not-London Terry Johnson Theatre Theatre review Theatre Royal Bath Top plays of 2015 UK

Review: Mrs Henderson Presents, Theatre Royal Bath

“Where’s that damn woman?” That woman is of course Laura Henderson, a rich widow who in 1937…

Posted in Film Moira Buffini Musicals Theatre

Film Review: London Road (2015)

“Everybody’s very very nervous” The theatrical production of London Road was a major success for the National…

Posted in Musicals Theatre West End

Re-review: From Here To Eternity, Shaftesbury Theatre

“I got the ‘ain’t where I wanna be’ blues” Suffering the fate of a fair few musicals…