Musicals

In The Boys in the Band currently selling out the Park Theatre, Ian Hallard as Michael sings “any way you figure, it’s hard to be a nigger – but it’s better than being a jew”. There in one cheeky...

This isn’t an exhaustive list because there’ll be a panto somewhere in practically every postcode come December, but it is a rundown of your options – financial and artistic – for a special Christmas...

‘In a cavern, in a canyon, excavating for a mine …'  it's very hard to get Huckleberry Hound’s tone-deaf version of ‘Clementine’ out of your head at this musical where a young Kentucky man,...

Bumblescratch is a 'ratty' epic. 38 songs, mostly sung by Darren Day in a blonde beehive wig rescued from Mari Wilson's dumpster. Kid co-star Ilan Galkoff is excellent as a sort of Stuart Little to Day's Rat...

Two Edinburgh Fringe musicals - one home-grown and almost London-ready, one more pantomime but decorated by an impossibly handsome half nude 'Adam'. STOP THE TRAIN (The Musical) **** Paradise in...

The first thing to say here is that yet again the producer/director collaboration of Danielle Tarento and Thom Southerland has come up with a beautiful show, full of charm, of energy and of near perfection by...

Frances Hodgson Burnett, author of The Secret Garden, was the J K Rowling of her day. Her 1910 novel fused together almost as many memes from childhood stories as Harry Potter – there’s the orphan girl...

So what did I really think about Harry Potter and the Cursed Child? You need to know two things – first that I went to a press night because the reviewer assigned to it got a hospital appointment the same...

It’s a cause for celebration that London has (three-quarters of) a new fringe theatre. The Union has moved across the street to a new space with fine glass-fronted aspect to a furnished courtyard for...

There are some gay men through whom the word ‘Judy’ runs like a stick of cheap rock. To question their devotion to the long-deceased Ms Garland is to adopt the same dangerous stance as contemporary...