Musicals

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,...

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...

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...