Author JohnnyFox

This is a difficult one. I really like Annie Get Your Gun but the 1946 original was butchered in 1999 for a US revival with Bernadette Peters and most references to ‘Injuns’ excised to suit PC...

For the first time ever I would say I'm not 'afraid' but I am 'anxious'. In previous events I thought 'well - I could have been there, but it's not really likely' but this one was definitely on my 'patch'...

Producer Sasha Regan of the Union Theatre developed a nice line in all-male versions of the Gilbert and Sullivan comic operas: an inventive Harry Potter-ish Iolanthe reprised in the gloriously ramshackle...

There are lots of reasons I should like Lettice and Lovage: I loved the original production at the then-named Globe Theatre with Maggie Smith and Margaret Tyzack. I fell IN love once while watching Felicity...

These are the skeletons you want in your closet. In Addams Family Musical, Samantha Womack brings unexpected warmth to Morticia - is that a good thing? - and Cameron Blakeley’s Gomez, Carrie Hope...

By all accounts Helena Rubinstein was not a ‘nice woman’, but cresting her recent Bucket and Real Marigold Hotel TV successes, Miriam Margolyes bears all before her impersonating the outrageous...

Jordan Tannahill’s taut, 70 minute darkly comic real-life social drama Late Company draws two Toronto couples into God of Carnage country as they attempt to broker closure over the suicide of Joel, bullied...

I am inordinately fond of Forty Years On.  In only my second ever trip to London, my mother took me to see the original production the year I was fifteen and therefore readily able to identify with the...

I learned two things at the press night of The Braille Legacy.   One is that guide dogs may snarl at each other when passing – possibly a metaphor for critics and theatre bloggers I don’t have time to...

There’s only a handful of musical theatre royalty whose reputation so precedes them, particularly from New York to London, that they can guarantee to put a bum on every seat every night. Bette Midler, of...