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 ...
‘I’m reviewing a Bock and Harnick show at The Park Theatre. I’ve got a spare ticket. Want to come? It’s about – ’
‘Bock and Harnick? Oh, I just love ...
The month or so from about half way through December to half way through January is an important time for theatres, for this is the period when people...
It’s not often that a revival manages so completely to expunge the memory of the original production. However, Thom Southerland’s new staging of The W...
Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, the new musical which has just opened at The Apollo Shaftesbury Avenue to generally positive reviews, is as life-affi...
I can see what writers Iain Hollingshead (book and lyrics) and Timothy Muller (music) were trying to do with their show The End of History, and had th...
The musical Hair lays claim to being the world’s first ‘Rock Musical’. I’m not qualified to argue the point, but there can be little doubt that, when ...
