When he’s not out toiling to pay the mortgage Richard is a fan of all things musical theatre, is a member of Mercury Musical Developments, and has been an active contributor to the Book, Music, and Lyrics Workshop Programme here in London since its inception.
If, like me, you’ve spent your entire life hoping that a show would some day come along incorporating the Greek Muses, a writer who couldn’t finish an...
There's an article in the programme for Eugenius! (note the hilarious exclamation mark!) the 1980's-set pastiche soft-rock musical that has opened at ...
Totes amazeballs and halle-flippin-lujah! It may have taken eight months, but London finally has its first solid gold, bona-fide, new, home-grown musi...
Off to The King’s Head in Islington for Guy, a new four-hander: a gay, millennial black-box retelling of the Beauty and the Beast myth - written by th...
I rightly raved about ENO’s new Iolanthe back in February. Director Cal McCrystal’s laugh-a-minute makeover turns this 1882 Gilbert and Sullivan story...
Cuba Gooding Jnr has apparently been engaged to play Billy Flynn in Chicago at The Phoenix Theatre for fourteen weeks. By my calculation that means yo...
‘Ruthless! The Musical’ - the high-camp in-joke of a show which is playing at The Arts until 23rd June - originally opened off-Broadway on March 13th ...
You could be forgiven for thinking that a show titled All Or Nothing would have at least a passing reference to Rodgers and Hammerstein, however the A...
