Musicals

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...

‘We could have been anything that we wanted to be, With all the talent we had …’ … except these poor kids can’t. In April last year, the delightful Lyric Hammersmith reopened with a...

Guest reviewer: Dan Frost The long-awaited stage production of Disney’s Aladdin certainly gets an A for effort. Transferring from Broadway with much hyped attached, it’s an Arabian bazaar of...

Five rules for survival at Threepenny Opera: ONE: It’s an epic musical on a revolve, so think Les Miserables set in London any time since, but influenced by Sondheim because although this is the most...

What’s bloody hot. What’s bloody cheap. What’s bloody hot and cheap. BLOODY MINDED Get-your-Kit-off Harington’s Game-of-Thrones themed Faustus is full-on for gore and nudity.  Jamie Lloyd's...