English Touring Opera THE CORONATION OF POPPEA at Bath Theatre Royal
Walking through post-storm rain puddles and rush hour traffic en route to the Theatre Royal on a...
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BALLET BLACK at the Everyman, Cheltenham
The name of Ballet Black rather gives the game away. While not entirely a company of black dancers, there are not any white Anglo-Saxon performers either. Their stated aim is to “bring ballet to a more culturally diverse...
Read MoreOUR HOUSE at Bath Theatre Royal
Catherine Johnson found a gold-plated formula for staging the songs of Abba with the monster hit Mamma Mia. Playwright Tim Firth (Neville’s Island, Calendar Girls) has applied a far darker plot to showcase the genius of...
Read MoreTO SIR WITH LOVE on tour
It’s astonishing to think that it has taken so long for To Sir, With Love to make it onto the stage. The original, seminal book, by E.R. Braithwaite, was published in 1959 and the story was filmed in 1967 starring Sydney Poitier...
Read MoreOUT OF THE SHADOW at the Oxford Playhouse
Out of the Shadow, hosted by the Oxford Playhouse this week, is something very unique. Yes, it is a dance production, and yet, it is more than that. A vivid theatricality and poignant story-line shines through, and so to write...
Read MoreEVITA on tour
“…The strength of Evita over many other musicals of the past twenty or thirty years is its sheer volume of great numbers. You have to go back to the shows I mentioned earlier, and their like, to find so many outstanding songs per square yard. With Les Mis, Phantom or Cats, for instance, you only have one or two great, show stopping numbers. Evita has lots and lots….”
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