Tag: Michael Simkins

Posted in Live Music Musicals Theatre

Review: Sweet Charity in concert, Cadogan Hall

“You’re a blockbuster buster” It’s been five years since the Menier’s glorious revival of Sweet Charity so…

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 Musicals Theatre Theatre Royal Stratford East

Review: Oh What A Lovely War, Theatre Royal Stratford East

“There must be no squeamishness over losses” In the centenary year of the beginning of the First…

Posted in Film LGBTQ+ Oscar Wilde

Film Review: Wilde (1997)

“It is monstrous how people say things behind one’s back that are perfectly true” Based on Richard…

Posted in Theatre West End

Revew: Yes Prime Minister, Trafalgar Studios

“Do we have to deal with this tonight?” When it was first announced that Yes Prime Minister…

Posted in Hampstead Theatre Theatre

Review: Loyalty, Hampstead Theatre

“The closer you are to the truth, the harder it is talk about it” Loyalty is the…

Posted in Jermyn Street Theatre Terence Rattigan Theatre

Review: Less Than Kind, Jermyn Street Theatre

“There’s not a single situation that can’t be resolved with small talk” Getting in with the celebration…

Posted in Live Music Musicals Stephen Sondheim Theatre

Review: Company, Queens Theatre

“Good things get better, bad get worse. Wait, I think I meant that in reverse” Last up…