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Making musical history: Privates on Parade, Ordinary Days and The End of History

By |2020-03-27T12:43:55+00:001 December 2017|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Clockwise from top: Privates on Parade, Ordinary Days and The End of History

Acts of theatre resistance: Insignificance, The Lorax, Young Marx, Imagine This, Bernarda Alba

By |2020-03-27T12:44:13+00:007 November 2017|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Clockwise from top left: Young Marx, The House of Bernarda Alba, Insignificance, Imagine This

Musicals diary: Hair, Five Guys Named Moe, Young Frankenstein

By |2020-03-27T12:44:38+00:0023 October 2017|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Clockwise from top: Five Guys Named Moe, Young Frankenstein and Hair. In the

Press Pass: Everything you need to know about Follies at the National

By |2020-03-27T12:45:41+00:007 September 2017|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , |

Sondheim's Follies is a monster hit at the National Theatre What do you

My (non-Edinburgh) theatre diary: Salad Days, Mrs Orwell, Boom and Cowboy Rufus

By |2020-01-08T09:55:47+00:0022 August 2017|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Clockwise from top left: Mrs Orwell, Salad Days, Boom and King Cowboy Rufus Rules

From Page to Stage Q&A podcast and photos: How is the international scene changing for new musicals?

By |2020-03-27T17:00:35+00:0015 August 2017|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Two years ago, I chaired the opening night discussion at the third annual From Page to Stage festival of new musicals founded by Aria Entertainment's Katy Lipson. The central question on that occasion was "are we doing enough to nurture new musicals?" And the central answer was no.

Musicals diary: Spoonful of Sherman, Adrian Mole, Girl from the North Country

By |2020-03-27T12:46:18+00:0014 August 2017|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Sheila Atim & Shirley Henderson in Girl from the North Country; Ilan Galkoff and

Q&A podcast and photos: How new British one-man musical Superhero took flight

By |2020-03-27T17:47:50+00:0012 July 2017|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , |

How many creatives does it take to make a one-man musical? The answer can be "quite a few". And that it is in the case of SUPERHERO, the British one-man - or rather "one-dad" - musical now receiving its world premiere at London's Southwark Playhouse.

My theatre diary: West End Live, Lady Day, Hamlet and Quentin Dentin

By |2020-03-27T12:47:08+00:003 July 2017|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

My theatre diary w/c Sunday 25 June 2017: Lady Day at Emerson's Bar &

Q&A photos and podcast: Swinging Sixties-style with new musical Pete ‘n’ Keely

By |2020-03-27T18:23:05+00:007 May 2017|Tags: , , , , , , , , , |

A string of hits, a cast of two, ‘Forever Plaid’ meets ‘I Do, I Do’. James Hindman's 2000 Off-Broadway musical two-hander Pete ‘n’ Keely gets its European premiere at Tristan Bates Theatre. The production, directed by Matthew Gould, stars David Bardsley and Katie Kerr as the titular stars in a primetime TV bust-up.
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