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.
It’s a rare show indeed where you can actually hear grown men crying at the final curtain, before the audience rises to its feet almost as one in a wa...
Pint Of Wine Theatre Company have pulled off that all too rare occurrence. Buoyed up by a sell-out run, and on a raft of excellent reviews for Queen o...
Get the first fifteen minutes of a show right, and the audience will go anywhere you lead them. Get it wrong, and it makes for a VERY long evening of ...
A well-written play can have the power to transport you from your tawdry, hum-drum existence, drawing you in and creating worlds which are perhaps new...
How the mind plays tricks. I remember both Marguerite, and The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, the last two Michel Legrand musicals to play in the West End, a...
It’s always a pleasure to visit a theatre in London that I’ve not previously attended, and given that there are around 240, large and small, in the ca...
I’ve just read a most enjoyable book entitled My Old Man by, of all people, former Conservative Prime Minister John Major. It’s notionally about his p...
In their first show of 2019 ‘Pint of Wine Theatre Company’ have pulled off that all-too-rare beast; a faultless British premiere of a show with a near...
I was lucky enough to be able to spend some time with Blake Klein, Creative Producer of the Pint of Wine Theatre Company, to discuss their forthcoming...
Normally it’s our house style at Playstosee.com to try and keep a review as much in the present tense as possible. After all, you might well want to g...
