Grey Gardens, Southwark Playhouse
It’s not hard to see why Grey Gardens – the musical – has become such a collector’s item. This strange but true tale of American royalty gone rogue, of Jacqueline Kennedy’s rebellious relatives, of a stain on…
Funny Girl, Menier Chocolate Factory
It’s hard not to invoke the B word – Barbra, that is, not Brice – and I speak as one who bunked off school to catch her at a mid-week matinee. It was standing room only at…
The Force of Destiny, London Coliseum
Whenever the name Calixto Bieito is mentioned it’s invariably to mention ‘the toilets’ – not the reasons for them, just the fact that they were there at all. That production of Verdi’s A Masked Ball was one…
A Conversation With DAME DIANA RIGG
Sunday 7th February 2016 3.00pm, St James Theatre Dame Diana Rigg is one of our most distinguished actresses and has had an extensive, award-winning career in theatre, film and television. Dame Diana trained at RADA, made her professional…
Glenn Close talks Sunset Boulevard at ENO
On Monday 2nd November 2015, Edward hosted a press conference with Hollywood and Broadway star Glenn Close, and writers Don Black and Christopher Hampton to launch the eagerly anticipated, semi-staged performances of Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber‘s Sunset Boulevard at English…
Elf, Dominion Theatre
There’s nothing wrong with Elf that a decent song or two wouldn’t help put right. Oh, wait, there is one – “Nobody Cares About Santa” – which bucks up act two no end and turns rather deliciously…
The Stationmaster, Tristan Bates Theatre
Aria Entertainment’s From Page to Stage platform for new writing in musical theatre is another of those life-lines which refreshes the parts that the West End so rarely reaches – and to see a fledgling musical like…
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Chailly, Barbican
There’s an old conductor’s adage which suggests that the only way safe to start Strauss’ Don Juan is to start before the applause has died – that way no one hears any imperfections in the upward rush…
La Boheme, English National Opera
So this is the moment where the tables are turned and La Boheme, the opera, takes its cue from Rent, the musical, and Rodolfo the poet’s observation that he has “a few more lines” to finish takes…
In the Heights, King’s Cross Theatre
Lin-Manuel Miranda is America’s new Poet Laureate. When I first saw his fledgling opus IN THE HEIGHTS on Broadway it struck me that here was the moment where all the existing catergories previously used to define musical theatre…
