Tuesday, September 5, 2017
Deadline Day has echoes of The Likely Lads in its humour, drawn from the clashing of cultures as a boy wonder footballer and his go-getting agent travel to London to sign for Chelsea.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:18PM[SHARE]Friday, August 18, 2017
Salad Days is easy to dismiss is the lightest of light entertainment, but has plenty of political punch under its joyous exterior.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:42PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 9, 2017
Director, Amy Draper, packs plenty into realising writer Daniel Winder's ambitious take on the Grimm fairytale, but the show needs to be edited back to two hours maximum running time to succ…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:09PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 2, 2017
The Cunning Little Vixen is a opera favourite but no less fascinating for that, especially in this innovative and engaging production.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:24PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 1, 2017
Long a star of Wicked, Willemijn Verkaik delivers a splendid one-off concert to her adoring fans.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:24AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 26, 2017
The Marriage of Kim K is an innovative melding of musical genres, as three couples find life together more difficult than expected, their lives revealed in a very 21st century style.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:48PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 25, 2017
I Loved Lucy returns to the West End with a change in tone, but retaining its charm and its pathos with another incandescent star performance from Sandra Dickinson.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:57AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 11, 2017
La Voix Humaine, Poulenc's one act, one soprano opera based on a play by Jean Cocteau, is a visceral, demanding, rewarding evening, ferociously up to date in every sense.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:09AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 4, 2017
King Kong A Comedy tries a little too hard for laughs, but captures some of the pathos of its 1933 movie inspiration in a breathless 80 minutes show..
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:42PM[SHARE]Friday, June 30, 2017
A Macbeth that stays true to the 17th century origin of the play, yet feels bang up to date with plenty for teenage fans of Game of Thrones and Shakespeare veterans to enjoy.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:36AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 28, 2017
Blondel The Musical has elements of pantomime and elements of the real punch of musical theatre in a show that works well only intermittently.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:36PM[SHARE]Saturday, June 17, 2017
These Tress Are Made Of Blood tells the story of Argentina's Dirty War using cabaret as a vehicle to describe the horrors and the politics that drove it.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:36AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 1, 2017
La Strada, adapted from the Fellini movie is a play with music that captures the style and ethics of a classic movie, indeed the Neo-Realism style.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:14PM[SHARE]Vixen updates Leos Janacek's opera for the victims of Generation Rent moving the action into the big city of 2017 with hi tech and great singing.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:26AM[SHARE]Monday, May 29, 2017
Annie Get Your Gun delivers wonderful, uncynical entertainment, the romance studded with some of the finest songs ever written for the theatre.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:48AM[SHARE]Saturday, May 27, 2017
Jam, Matt Parvin's first play, shows promise but cannot overcome its structural and narrative problems to deliver its full potential.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:46AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 25, 2017
The Mikado is as much as ever in this all male version that showcases the great songs with some fine voices.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:25PM[SHARE]Monday, May 22, 2017
Continuing our series of favourite musical theatre songs is Carol Channing's version of 'Hello, Dolly'
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:42AM[SHARE]Saturday, May 20, 2017
Othello's extraordinary tapestry of human vulnerabilities, brilliantly woven in Richard Twyman's brutal production, remains as relevant today as ever.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:36AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 18, 2017
Teeth 'n' Smiles is an early work by Sir David Hare, tracking a punk band's disastrous night playing Jesus College Cambridge's 1978 May Ball.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:44PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 16, 2017
Greg Hicks' Richard III twists and turns his evil until he's left with nobody to hate, screaming for a horse and escape.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:33AM[SHARE]Saturday, May 13, 2017
110 In The Shade is both old-fashioned and bang up to date, full of pleasing songs, fine performances and a heartwarming message of love and hope.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:54AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 10, 2017
Occupational Hazards portrays the chaos of post-Saddam Iraq through the eyes of Rory Stewart, who was there and who tried.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:48PM[SHARE]Saturday, May 6, 2017
Cosmic Trigger The Play is an exhilarating event that entertains and educates, full of fun but never losing the serious dimension to Robert Anton Wilson's work.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:34AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 4, 2017
Voices From Chernobyl reminds us of a largely forgotten disaster and the terrible human cost, a price still being paid today.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:06PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 30, 2017
Home Truths nine plays paint a picture of chaotic and cruel housing policies that have shafted the poor for decades with little sign of any change coming - and it's also funny, warm and clev…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:12AM[SHARE]Saturday, April 29, 2017
Divine Chaos Of Starry Things is so concerned about the politics of revolution, colonialism and feminism that the stuff of drama is lost.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:42AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 25, 2017
The Braille Legacy tells the story of Louis Braille's fight for his system that allowed blind people to read by touch - music good, but book and lyrics lack excitement.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:00PM[SHARE]Monday, April 24, 2017
Nuclear War comprises elements of drama, dance, mime and song to create a dystopian vision of an alienating present that seemed both overly familiar and hazily unfocused.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:36AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 23, 2017
Nuclear War comprises elements of drama, dance, mime and song to create a dystopian vision of an alienating present that seemed both overly familiar and hazily unfocused.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:54AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 19, 2017
Whisper House comprises some lovely songs beautifully sung, but lacks the narrative drive one expects in musical theatre.
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