Bernstein at the Proms, The John Wilson Orchestra
Yes, this was one of those evenings where EVERYONE stepped up. So many highlights: Louise Dearman’s “100 Easy Ways’, Julian Ovenden’s “Maria” with a stonking top B, Scarlet Strallen’s quite startling “Glitter and Be Gay” and Lucy…
A Sneak Preview of Bend It Like Beckham
A YouTube video of the opening number! You saw it here first (hopefully)!!! Interested in learning more? Read ‘an earlier post about this musical’ written by Edward Seckerson last year. It is the afternoon of Friday 2 May…
A Little Night Music, Palace Theatre
Can it really be 40 years since Sondheim’s waltzy, nostalgia-flecked, fancy first intoxicated our senses with its promise of indiscretion and insatiable desire? But that’s the thing, isn’t it – every Sondheim piece feels brand new on…
The Cherry Orchard, Young Vic
For a play in which inertia, atrophy, indecision, and the inability to move forward are key elements – aren’t they always in Chekhov – Katie Mitchell’s marvelously busy and concentrated staging of The Cherry Orchard fair zips…
BBC Radio 2 Arts Show with Claudia Winkleman
Delighted to be back as a regular guest on the the Radio 2 Arts Show with the amazing Claudia Winkleman 03/10/2014: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04hcmtp 06/03/2015: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b053zw4n… [Read More]
A Streetcar Named Desire, Young Vic
The first thing one needs to grasp about A Streetcar Named Desire – and director Benedict Andrews has seized hungrily upon it in his unnerving staging at the Young Vic – is Tennessee Williams’ sense of the…
Amadeus, Chichester Festival Theatre
Peter Shaffer has always been a big ideas man and the curse laid upon Antonio Salieri that he and he alone should recognise the genius of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart while all around him – not least himself…
Carousel, Arcola Theatre
The first thing that strikes you about this joyously inventive postage stamp staging of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s masterpiece – and it strikes you so forcibly in this high-decibel digital age that it’s almost a pinch-yourself moment –…
Don Giovanni, Glyndebourne
The darkness descends with the shocking first chord of the Overture brutally shutting out a beautiful day at Glyndebourne. Such comedy as there is in this show (and that aspect of the piece is kept well in…
The Life of the Party, Menier Chocolate Factory
I still regard myself as an Andrew Lippa newbe – though now that his recent outing at the St James Theatre has morphed into fully-produced all-singing, all-dancing London show with props and projections and costumes and lights…
