A modern fairytale in which John McCrea’s Jamie is a force of nature
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Beirut, Park Theatre ★★★
Alan Bowne’s 1987 play imagines a future where anti-HIV prejudice has become law
A modern fairytale in which John McCrea’s Jamie is a force of nature
Reviewed for Musical Theatre Review: Those of us who grew up in the 1970s will remember the BBC sitcom It Ain’t Half Hot Mum, written by Jimmy Perry and David Croft about a group of Second World War entertainers getting up to all sorts deep in India and Burma. Peter Nichols’ 1977 play Privates on…
Reviewed for The Reviews Hub: In the pantheon of 1980s movies, Flashdance has achieved cult status far exceeding its own gaudy ambitions. The tale of a welding apprentice who supplements her meagre wages from a Pittsburgh steel firm by dancing in a local club, but who has ambitions to enrol at the local ballet school, mines every…
Andrew Lippa’s musical about father-son relations and the power of myth warms the heart
Perhaps the most sweet-natured take on a John Waters film one could possibly imagine
The touring production of the children’s classic has all the charm of a replacement bus service
Traditional, with a twist: the chocolatiers’ tale that serves as a metaphor for Emma Rice’s Globe tenure
Let the sun shine in with the 50th anniversary revival of this ground-breaking musical
Not exactly a Lazy Sunday, but…
Reviewed for Musical Theatre Review: If there’s one adjective which, when applied to musical theatre, fills one with a sense of trepidation, it’s “zany”. But that’s the only way to describe the first professionally produced collaboration between book writer and lyricist Lynn Ahrens and composer Stephen Flaherty, who would go on to create Once On…
Ira Levin’s postmodern comedy thriller entertains with its jumps, scares and laughs
The jukebox musical revival gets the whole spiegeltent jumping
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