“…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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Good ballet, like opera, is such a demanding and hugely satisfying medium that it can...
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In many ways the small(ish) independent, itinerant theatre companies have picked up the dusty...
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As someone with dreadful coordination and balance, I have always been wildly jealous of anyone...
Read MoreThe National Theatre of Scotland and the Royal Shakespeare Company put on a performance of Dunsinane this evening that was easily one of the most enjoyable plays I’ve seen in a while. A vigorous epic tale with big sweeping...
Read MorePART 1 – Harry the Sixth The company of the Globe Theatre on Tour is at Oxford this week with performances of Shakespeare’s Henry VI, Parts 1-3 This evening’s play is Harry the Sixth, which begins with the death of King Henry V...
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