WONDERFUL TOWN to play at Ye Olde Rose and Crown
To conclude our 2016 season, All Star Productions are delighted to present a new chamber production of Leonard Bernstein’s 1953 musical WONDERFUL TOWN. Based on the play, MY SISTER EILEEN by Joseph Fields and Jerome Chodorov, the Tony award winning WONDERFUL TOWN is a bright and cheery love letter to the colorful experience of living […]
Check out these rehearsal images of the cast of THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS
Rehearsals have begun for the highly-anticipated major new musical theatre adaptation of THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS, created by Julian Fellowes, George Stiles and Anthony Drewe. Premiering at Theatre Royal Plymouth from 8th October 2016, the production will then open at The Lowry in Salford and Mayflower Theatre in Southampton, prior to opening in London’s […]
REVIEW: MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING (Selfridges’ reFASHIONed Theatre) ★★★★
As you may or may not know, Sir William Shakespeare fancied himself a bit of a comedian, occasionally taking a break amongst his usual feats of tragedy and historical dramas to create ‘Much Ado About Nothing’, written in (it is believed) about 1598-1599. The title of the play gives clues to the plot, which entails […]
REVIEW: CHILDREN OF EDEN (The Union Theatre) ★★
Children Of Eden is the re-telling of the story of the book of Genesis. The show premiered in the West End twenty five years ago, where is ran for just three months and received little praise. The show is now being staged at the new Union Theatre in the heart of Southwark. The Union Theatre […]
REVIEW: BRASS (Hackney Empire) ★★★★
Sixty years ago my parents used to reminisce nostalgically about the demise of the Hackney Empire music hall and so entering that big, lovely, traditional theatre was exiting for me. I was not disappointed. It is lovely, ornate and has been beautifully restored. The ‘acney ’empire, to quote my parents, is now a long way […]
Life According to Saki wins the Carol Tambor Best of Edinburgh Award
This weekend, at the Scotsman Award Ceremony in the Spiegeltent in St Andrews Square, award-winning children’s author Katherine Rundell’s debut play Life According to Saki won the coveted Carol Tambor Best of Edinburgh Award. This is the first production by new company Atticist Productions, who now as part of the award take the play to […]
REVIEW: BEST BOY (Underbelly Cowgate) ★★★★
My first experience at the 2016 Edinburgh Fringe Festival ended with me up on stage playing a War Trumpet. To be short, Best Boy is a delight. Charlie Mizon and Dan Smith have fantastic chemistry that doesn’t tire throughout the show. Skipping from sketches to rather impressive magic, the pace of the show is mostly […]
REVIEW: THE ROUNDABOUT (PARK Theatre) ★★★★
J.B.Priestley plays are elegant, literate and funny, if a little dated. The Roundabout (never the most popular of his works) was written in the 1933 when the world was a different place. The play explores the relationships between the varied characters over a single weekend. Priestley threw in a number of diverse characters and looked […]
Check out these pictures from UNFAITHFUL which opens next week
Following the critically acclaimed, sold out productions of The Dazzle and Bug at Found111, Emily Dobbs Productions is thrilled to pesent the London premiere of Unfaithful, a blackly comic new play starring Sean Campion (The Borgias, Stones in his Pockets), Niamh Cusack (Heartbeat, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time), Ruta Gedmintas (The […]
REVIEW: PAPER HEARTS (Med Quad: Underbelly) ★★★★★
The best piece of advice I was ever given when I started writing was always to find the reason the story needed to be told. Why is this story important for people to see, why do the characters need to be heard. Paper Hearts is this through and through. It is a story that so […]