Musicals

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...

This is a very good production of a rather unmemorable musical.  As stories about an argumentative mother and daughter go, The Rink is several farmboys short of the picnic that is Gypsy.  Written in...

'Put it in the tissue paper' sing the cast of The Biograph Girl in its wistful closing number 'they won't want that shadow till another day' and there you have both the motif for the end of the silent film...

Two groups are better impersonated on television than by theatre: the Royal Family, and East Enders.   In H R Haitch they collide awkwardly in a royal wedding spoof musical with all the elegance of a bin...