★★★☆☆ It started as a film, before becoming a TV series that itself had a spin-off, a stage musical, and rounded out by a cinematic remake. Selladoor Productions brings the stage version back to the UK with all the leg-warmers and poppy 80s vitality you would expect from the fictionalised attendees of the High School of the Performing Arts.
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★★★★☆ A hit when it was released in 1988, the original American comedy drama road movie won four Oscars, one going to Dustin Hoffman for his portrayal of the autistic savant Raymond Babbitt. In this revival of Dan Gordon’s stage adaptation of Barry Morrow’s screenplay, there is virtually no actual ‘road’ . . .
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★★★☆☆ While several stage adaptions of the show exist, the first being performed in Manchester in 1986, the Birmingham REP’s adaption was first performed in 1993, so to celebrate its 25th anniversary it is being brought back for a 21st Century audience.
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★★★★☆ Their great detective is a lady of formidable intellect and with an even more formidable French accent, called Artemis Arinae. That’s a name not picked by chance, for Artemis is the goddess of hunting; and as for ‘Arinae’, I believe that’s a kind of parrot – surely a pun on Poirot?
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★★★★☆ This is the story of escaped criminal, Mitch Ruscitti, and his attempt to steal a priceless diamond from a bank in Minneapolis, the town where ‘everyone’s a crook’. He enlists the help of hapless prison guard, Neil Cooper to break out of prison, and aid him in his crime. . .
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★★★★☆ Star Flower is Whispering Woods’ new show – this time featuring Nina Bambrey and her creative performance partner Rory Bennett, who explore a dreamlike journey, a compassionate shared adventure, using aerial acrobatics, circus, dance and puppetry within a theatre environment.
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