As the longest January on record is at last ending and the days seem to be finally getting longer, it’s time to head into the West End for something rather different for me. Instead of my usual, nicely placed seat in front of a stage, I set my sights on Trafalgar Square and the wonderful… Continue reading Life: A spectacular sound and light experience at St Martin-in-the-Fields
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Instaprov at the Hen and Chickens Theatre | Review
I suppose it’s not surprising that anyone who would be happy for their Instagram posts to be displayed in front of an audience is a) unlikely to have anything beyond ridiculous or incriminating on there, and b) also happy to answer questions from the cast about the context of their online content, with some contributors… Continue reading Instaprov at the Hen and Chickens Theatre | Review
The King and I at the Dominion Theatre | Review
The King and I was first performed on Broadway in March 1951 and has been playing somewhere ever since. It’s based on what for years was thought to be the true story of an English widow, Anna Leonowens, who goes to Siam (now Thailand) to be the governess to the many children of King Mongkut. However… Continue reading The King and I at the Dominion Theatre | Review
Till the Stars Come Down at the Dorfman Theatre
There are various problems with families. First, they know each other too well, and second, on the whole, they can never get away from each other. Any resentments or feuds can go on for years, often simmering under the surface until someone lights the blue touchpaper – usually at a family function – and then… Continue reading Till the Stars Come Down at the Dorfman Theatre
Les Dennis in Not Too Tame Shakespeare
Not Too Tame’s production of Twelfth Night at Shakespeare North Playhouse in Prescot will feature actor, comedian and TV presenter Les Dennis as Malvolio. This “brilliantly bold” production of Shakespeare’s comedy follows the company’s previous production at the same venue of A Midsummer Night’s Dream in 2022 (featured on the BTG podcast at the time). The new production promises, “a contemporary… Continue reading Les Dennis in Not Too Tame Shakespeare
Thacker to direct Mamet in Salford
Former Octagon Artistic Director David Thacker will direct David Mamet’s American Buffalo for Rising Moon Productions at The Kings Arms in Salford. A junk shop. Midwest America. Three small-time crooks plot to carry out the midnight robbery of a coin collection. In the hours leading up to the heist, friendship becomes the victim in a conflict between… Continue reading Thacker to direct Mamet in Salford
Belfast’s c21 announces US premiere in Washington DC
Belfast’s c21 Theatre Company has revealed the details of its first visit to the Keegan Theatre in Washington DC in May when it will present the American première of Charis McRoberts’s Expecting. First seen in Belfast’s The Mac in May 2023 and subsequently at the Edinburgh Fringe, Expecting is a portrait of a young couple—deaf mother Shauna and hearing father… Continue reading Belfast’s c21 announces US premiere in Washington DC
Jesus Christ Superstar
The 2016 multi-award-winning Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre production of Jesus Christ Superstar now begins the 2024 leg of its UK tour at Leicester’s Curve, not that many weeks since the venue staged its own production of Evita, another Rice / Lloyd Webber classic. Last weekend, Ralph Fiennes caused a ripple in the media pond on BBC One’s Sunday… Continue reading Jesus Christ Superstar
When You Pass Over My Tomb
Franco-Uraguayan dramatist Sergio Blanco, one of South America’s most performed living playwrights, calls his work “autofiction” and he puts a writer with his name at its centre, a Sergio played here by Al Nedjari. No that’s not quite right: actor Al Nedjari is playing himself as a ghost; it is the ghost who plays Sergio… Continue reading When You Pass Over My Tomb
Noises off
Most of the cast of Michael Frayn’s frenetic farce will have clocked up close to 150 performances by the time it ends its six-month UK tour in Oxford next week. With the sort of energy they bring to the show, if this were sport, someone would be looking at what they put in their tea.… Continue reading Noises off