INTO THE WOODS comes to Menier Chocolate Factory this summer
Following great critical success in New York, innovative and ground breaking theatre company Fiasco bring their enchanting reinvention of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s masterpiece Into The Woods to the Chocolate Factory this Summer. The production opens on 12 July, with previews from 1 July, and runs until 17 September. Using ten actors, multiple musical […]
REVIEW: The Great American Trailer Park Musical (Waterloo East Theatre)
“It will blow away your cobwebs” said my friend as we emerged from ‘The Great American Trailer Park Musical’ and I’m inclined to agree: this quirky show with music and lyrics by David Nehls and book by Betsy Kelso premiered Off-Broadway in 2005. The show follows the love triangle between agoraphobic Jeanie (Jemma Alexander), her […]
REVIEW: A WORKING TITLE (The Union Theatre)
What I love about The Union Theatre, is that it gives a voice to wonderful new theatre and promising unestablished writers. Fortunately ‘A Working Title’, was no exception to this. Original Impact Theatre Company tell the stories of the unsung twenty something Londoners, who still haven’t (if I may quote the play) ‘got their sh*t […]
TOM. A STORY OF TOM JONES. THE MUSICAL (Richmond Theatre)
They say that in Tom Jones’s home town of Pontypridd, everyone knows someone who knows Tom. One of Wales’s most famous exports, his stint as a judge on The Voice with his tales of hanging out with Elvis has brought him to the attention of a younger generation. The son of a miner who became […]