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Potted Panto post-show video and photos: Which is your favourite Christmas pantomime?

By |2020-01-25T12:07:20+00:008 December 2019|Tags: , , , , , |

It's official! Christmas is coming up fast. And that, of course, means it's pantomime season. How do you choose which of the biggies to see this year? Why choose? See the seven (or maybe twelve) top pantomimes in one hilarious show care of Potted Panto.

Escape From Planet Trash post-show video and photos: Sink the Pink continues its queer trilogy in outer space

By |2020-01-08T10:19:54+00:004 December 2019|Tags: , , , , , , |

A year on, during which they've released a single with Melanie C, Sink the Pink are back at the Pleasance Theatre with the second in their queer trilogy of alternative Christmas shows. Ginger Johnson and co are on top form.

The Good Scout post-show video and photos: How worried should we be about parallels between the 1930s and today?

By |2020-01-25T15:07:42+00:0030 October 2019|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , |

While MPs were voting for an election that is likely to accelerate the UK's lurch to the right, I was back at Above The Stag Theatre last night talking about the increasingly worrying parallels - and historic dominoes - between the 1930s and today. Is it any wonder that The Good Scout left me in tears, even on second viewing?

Sinatra: Raw post-show video and photos: What makes Frank Sinatra such an enduring icon?

By |2020-01-25T15:13:13+00:0023 October 2019|Tags: , , , , , , , |

Despite singing the songs of Sinatra since he was a teenager, Richard Shelton was turned down multiple times for a part in concert show The Rat Pack. When he was invited to audition for Rat Pack Confidential, he went in angry and impatient... and finally got his man. 

Ages of the Moon post-show video and photos: Remembering Pulitzer Prize winner Sam Shepard

By |2020-01-25T15:18:30+00:0020 October 2019|Tags: , , , , , , |

I'm a huge fan of the late, Pulitzer Prize-winning American playwright Sam Shepard. How wonderful to be able to discuss one of his late plays, Ages of the Moon, which now receives its UK premiere two years after Shepard passed away.

Groan Ups post-show video and photos: With the original Mischief Theatre company and co-writers

By |2020-01-25T15:24:21+00:0018 October 2019|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , |

As part of an ongoing series, I've chaired post-show talks with various Mischief Theatre casts this year, all of whom waxed lyrical about the brilliance of the company founders. At Groan Ups, I had a chance to pose questions to those original mischief-makers themselves.
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