Tag: Verity Quade

Posted in Cyndi Lauper LGBTQ+ Musicals Theatre Theatre review Top plays of 2015 West End

Re-review: Kinky Boots, Adelphi Theatre

  “Funk it up till it’s ostentatious Dress it up, it feels contagious” Now extended through to…

Posted in Cyndi Lauper LGBTQ+ Musicals Theatre West End

Review: Kinky Boots, Adelphi Theatre

  “Drag queens are mainstream. Just this morning I was offered a gig singing at a nursing…

Posted in Cast Recordings Music Musicals

Album Review: Sister Act the musical (Original London Cast Recording)

  “Queen of Angels is not your grandma’s church anymore. God help your grandmother if it were.” It…

Posted in Musicals Stephen Sondheim Theatre

Review: Sweeney Todd, London Coliseum

“At the top of the hole sit the privileged few” And it is mostly the privileged few…

Posted in Finborough Theatre Musicals Theatre

Review: Thérèse Raquin, Finborough Theatre

“Blood and nerves…blood and nerves” Rather oddly, I’ve already seen the first half of Craig Adams and…

Posted in Alan Ayckbourn Alan Bennett David Hare Digital Eugene O'Neill George Bernard Shaw Harold Pinter Howard Brenton Michael Frayn Musicals National Theatre Noël Coward Peter Shaffer Shakespeare Stephen Sondheim Tennessee Williams Theatre Tom Stoppard Tony Kushner

Review: National Theatre – Fifty Years on Stage

“We’ve got two hours to show the vast range of work the National has done over the…

Posted in Albums Music

Album Review: Scrapbook – The Songs of Robert Archibald and Verity Quade

  “Don’t want to be dependent on a wink, a smile, or kiss.” At the beginning of…

Posted in Musicals Theatre West End

Re-Review: Sister Act with Whoopi Goldberg, Palladium

“I had a revelation when I skipped my medication” One of the cardinal rules of theatre booking…

Posted in Musicals Theatre West End

Review: Sister Act, Palladium

I am nothing if not contrary, and whilst weighty fare such as Lantana features in my Top…