Author JohnnyFox

It’s turning in to a great season for the student theatre showcases – the British Theatre Academy (which features Cameron Mackintosh on its website) is split between Southwark and Stockwell Playhouses with...

“Good morning, Matron, and whom do we have here?” “Good morning, Dr Tinkle – this is Mr Bennett, he’s suffering from chronic sentimentality with complications of mawkishness and false...

'She's a little bit Hairspray, he's a little bit Glee ...' is not actually a lyric from Bring It On, a high school musical being given a sparky showcase by the British Theatre Academy at Southwark Playhouse,...

There were moments when this was actually frightening. It's interesting to see Tommy Steele at 81 playing a London audience, which he clearly loves but whoever he was, he wasn't Glenn Miller. Glenn...

All the advance publicity for Knights of the Rose gave me a sense of foreboding. I thought the Arts Theatre had hit rock bottom with Ruthless but it seems there is further to go. This hideous mash-up of...

Seventy years before Maria left the abbey to look after the von Trapp children, British governess Anna Leonowens sailed to Bangkok to tutor the 82 princes and princesses of the Siamese court, far outranking...

At last, the Young Vic has come of age. Fun Home marks one of the best productions it has housed, and breaks new ground for musical theatre. Fun Home charts the real life steady progress towards coming out...

You can tell you’re in a posh family house on stage when there’s salad on the table with a meat meal.   One For Sorrow (the F must be capitalized, so we’re parked at Pretention Central right from the...

Ripping Yarn, or Old Rope? Hogwarts or Hogwash?  Bit of both, really, in Daisy Pulls It Off. I've said before that Guildford School of Acting turns out the best ‘triple threats’: those performers who...

If you think The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is some whimsical reincarnation of the 1969 film with Maggie Smith flitting about Edinburgh in a chiffon scarf dripping witty epigrams about Mussolini – think...