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.
There's an inbuilt problem with screen to stage adaptations, especially those destined for the musical stage. Ideally you need a film that hardly anyo...
There's a brilliantly excoriating satire to be written on the get-rich-quick-without-doing-the-leg-work world of 'Talent Show Television', and in part...
Manchester-born producer Katy Lipson has been a steadily growing force to be reckonedwith on the London theatre scene now for the past three or four y...
I usually submit my reviews on the day I see the show. I offer this observation not as some badge of pride that I’m able to throw together 750 words b...
There are games you play when your mind wanders in a theatre. One of my favourites is to wonder what the cast I’m watching should actually be performi...
It's a curious place, The Landor. On the one hand this little powerhouse of a theatre above a pub a couple of minutes away from Clapham North undergro...
There's an awful lot to like about The A to Z of Mrs P, the new musical with book by Diane Samuels, and music and lyrics by Gwyneth Herbert, which has...
Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera HMS Pinafore, or The Lass That Loved A Sailor, proved an instant success when it opened at London’s Opera Comique t...
There are some things in life which seem like a really good idea over a couple of glasses of chardonnay and yet, in the cold light of artistic executi...
