Musicals

Neil Patrick Harris may have told the Tonys audience that Theatre “is not just for gays any more” but he clearly wasn’t at the opening night of Company.  You could have died from the cloud of Tom Ford...

Over the weekend I'll write a longer and more personal reflection on Company.  For now, here's my Londonist review: UNLIMITED : COMPANY @ Gielgud Theatre  W1   Marianne Elliott’s...

Is it 'racist' not to love Porgy and Bess? In the 75 years between the abolition of slavery and the rise of the Civil Rights movement, South Carolina kept its black population ‘free’ but constrained by...

One of the reasons I decided to leave the London Gay Men’s Chorus was that we were obliged to learn complex choreography to Jai Ho, the thumping Oscar-winning Bollywood anthem A R Rahman wrote to underscore...

Just what is the big fuss about Heathers? It’s a school-of-Legally-Blonde musical derived from a cult movie which had an enthusiastic six-week run at The Other Palace, mostly for existing fans of the Winona...

I wonder if a new genre is forming in musical theatre? Let's call it 'cartoon rock' - because products like Eugenius!, Six and Knights of the Rose have little in common with the canons of Lloyd Webber, or...

Meanness and greenness have often gone hand in hand at Regent’s Park - £3.50 for a tiny ice cream cone, really? – but never more so than in Maria Aberg’s confident production of Little Shop of Horrors...

John Wilson is fantastic. The London Symphony Orchestra is fantastic. Headline singers like Louise Dearman, Celinde Schoenmaker, Nadim Naaaman: all fantastic. Leonard Bernstein was fantastic. So why is the BBC...

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...

'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,...