Ghost: The Musical Mel Cooper 28/02/2014 Ghost: The Musical is an exemplar of a trend to turn well-known titles into staged versions and add singing and dancing. The problem is that, unlike t...
The One Rowena Hawkins 28/02/2014 Harry (Rufus Wright) and Jo (Phoebe Waller Bridge) are bored: bored of their sex life, bored of each other. Their relationship, which began as an exci...
Oh, What a Lovely War! Mel Cooper 28/02/2014 For the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of WWI, and the fiftieth of Joan Littlewood’s creative, inventive musical entertainment, the adventurous The...
Secret Cinema: The Grand Budapest Hotel Becca Kaplan 28/02/2014 If you are a movie nut, like myself, then no doubt you’ve shared a similar daydream: to enter into a beloved cinematic world and become a part of the ...
Our Big Land Irina Kostyleva 27/02/2014 The writer Dan Allum, himself brought up in a caravan, was inspired to write the story by the two mysterious and independent Gypsies, a mother and a s...
The A to Z of Mrs P Richard Voyce 26/02/2014 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...
Dreamboats and Petticoats – The Musical Mel Cooper 24/02/2014 What can I say? I went to this musical with very low expectations – the prospect of a show built around a collection of hit songs of the 1960s strung ...
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead Sophie Nevrkla 23/02/2014 Tom Stoppard has often been referred to as one of the greatest modern playwrights, Rosencratz and Guildenstern Are Dead being the first of his plays t...
Brassed Off Zoe Skipworth 22/02/2014 It’s rare that I find myself sitting through a play so lifeless that I consider leaving. Most plays that receive weak reviews have a few stand-out ...
Kodo: One Earth Tour 2014: Legend Ellie Buchdahl 22/02/2014 Primeval, beautiful, visceral, explosive, bone-shaking, spine-thrilling, mind-freezing… just how many overblown adjectives will it take to show that y...