Musicals

A ‘Privates on Parade’ for the war in the Pacific, YANK! is everything you don’t expect from the cheesy title - a cleverly-constructed and original musical about illicit gay love which avoids all the...

I’ve been trying to remember why I didn’t go to either the 1983 original or the 2006 London revival of Blondel. Especially as its central character is King Richard I of England whose heir presumptive...

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...

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...

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...

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...

I had high hopes for this first-full-London-staging-in-50-years production of How to Succeed In Business Without Really Trying whose 2011 Broadway revival was a surprise hit for Daniel Radcliffe as the...

The ultimate ‘backstage musical’ 42nd Street lifted America from the depression, and its timely arrival at Drury Lane in such majestic style is still an evening of total escapism, total delight as you...

In The Life, drug-dealing Guys and rent-by-the-hour Dolls walk a side of 42nd Street far shadier than the tapdancing one at Drury Lane. The daily grit and the nightly grind are underpinned with a spectacularly...

Hyperbole is a wonderful thing – Edinburgh’s gutters run with it. According to the PR, Adam & Eve and Steve comes from a “sellout season in Los Angeles” – actually a four and a half week run...