Howard Goodall’s THE HIRED MAN returns to London
Melvyn Bragg and Howard Goodall’s passionately captivating musical The Hired Man will be returning for a limited run at London’s Union Theatre in July. Directed by Brendan Matthew whose previous directing includes the critically acclaimed world premiere of My Land’s Shore and The Kissing Dance will be reviving this romantic drama, with previews from the […]
REVIEW: MY COUNTRY: A WORK IN PROGRESS (Theatre Royal Stratford East) ★★★
My Country: A Work in Progress is a Brexit-inspired collaboration between Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy and Artistic Director of the National Theatre Rufus Norris. It was conceived primarily as a listening project, in response to a referendum campaign characterised by stark divides and bitter debates. In a country that often feels like it doesn’t […]
REVIEW: TRIBE (London Theatre Workshop) ★★★
“What would Bear Grylls do?” Tribe is a new play about Scouting and its relevance for the youth of today, written by Brandon Force, Matthew McCray and Rowena Russell. It’s 2012 and a group of Scouts are spending the weekend preparing for a competition against other troops, to challenge their Scouting skills. This was the […]
REVIEW: CLEAN SLATE (Courtyard Theatre) ★★★★
Clean Slate began as Table Rase, written by Catherine Chabot and produced in Montreal in 2015. The play won the award for best new writing in Quebec in 2016. The first English language staging of the play comes to the Courtyard Theatre in Hoxton in a production by Trip & Guts Theatre, a company that […]
BLOG: Is celebrity casting ever a good thing?
Celebrities mean more people buy tickets, ticket sales mean a successful run of a show, a successful show keeps actors employed. This week saw the announcement that former England cricket captain, Andrew “Freddie” Flintoff will swap the cricket pitch to tread the boards in the world premiere of Kay Mellor’s Fat Friends – the Musical on […]
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Musical EVITA set to return to the West End
The current touring version of EVITA is set to return to the West End this summer, replacing Gary Barlow’s Musical The Girls at the Phoenix Theatre from 28 July 2017. The story of an ordinary woman’s meteoric rise to power at a time of extraordinary political unrest, Evita is set to captivate West End audiences […]