The Best of Ann Hampton Callaway continues at Crazy Coqs, London until 29 November 2025. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Callaway equates performing at Crazy Coqs to ‘singing in a human hug’, not such a bad description for how it feels to be in her presence.
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Ann Hampton Callaway: Finding Beauty – Inspired Classics and Originals – The Pheasantry
Ann Hampton Callaway: Finding Beauty – Inspired Classics and Originals continues at The Pheasantry, London until 25 November 2023. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Numerous stars pay tribute to legendary songwriter Burt Bacharach
Music lovers across the world are mourning the passing of the legendary Burt Bacharach at his home in Los Angeles at the age of 94.
‘The best that there is’: Remembering Marilyn Bergman (1928-2022)
Marilyn Bergman and her husband Alan were responsible for an untold number of classic songs for films, theatre and television. Michael Darvell takes a glimpse at their back catalogue. Where do you begin with the Bergmans? Well, they started life in the same New York hospital in Brooklyn where they were both born, Alan in […]
Singer-songwriter and actress Ann Hampton Callaway chats about life during lockdown & returning to the joy of live music and theatre
Chicago-born singer, pianist, composer, lyricist, arranger, actress, educator, TV host and producer ANN HAMPTON CALLAWAY was recently in London performing her show The Judy Garland Songbook at The Pheasantry and Cinematic Serenade at Pizza Express Jazz Club in Soho. In high school, Ann performed in musicals and after graduation studied acting at the University of Illinois […]
Dates announced for Streisand and Rivers-inspired comedy The Funny Girls
A fictional meeting between two of Hollywood’s most distinctive and outspoken stars – Barbra Streisand and Joan Rivers – is the subject of Roy Smiles’ new comedy The Funny Girls. Directed by Michael Strassen, the latest from the writer of Kurt and Sid which detailed a fictional meeting between Kurt Cobain and Sid Vicious, The […]
CD Review: Liza Pulman Sings Streisand
LIZA PULMAN SINGS STREISAND EP (Downloads) Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Liza Pulman, known to most as one third of the satirical trio Fascinating Aida, has released an EP of songs by Barbra Streisand for Barbra’s 79th birthday. Now, I expect that coda to the name of the EP is simply a marketing […]
INTERVIEW: Christina Bianco and Ashley Day star in Funny Girl at Theatre Marigny in Paris
American actress-singer impressionist CHRISTINA BIANCO is currently playing the title role of 1920s vaudeville star Fanny Brice in Funny Girl at the Theatre Marigny in Paris opposite British triple threat performer ASHLEY DAY as Nick Arnstein. The show (in English with French surtitles) finishes on 7 March 2020. Below, Musical Theatre Review’s Patrick Honoré chats […]
Standards and Ann-dards: Ann Hampton Callaway – The Pheasantry,
Standards and Ann-dards: Ann Hampton Callaway at The Pheasantry, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ When in the early 1990s the Prince of New York cabaret Steve Ross instructed me “on no account to miss” an exciting new name on the Manhattan beat when she debuted at Pizza on the Park. Little did […]
Barbra Streisand – British Summer Time Hyde Park
Barbra Streisand performed at British Summer Time Hyde Park, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ The legend lives on. Exactly six years after her last concert at the O2, Barbra Streisand was back in London for her first open-air concert here as part of the British Summer Time event in Hyde […]
Liza Pulman’s Streisand show returns to London
Fascinating Aida’s Liza Pulman will bring her third solo show Liza Pulman Sings Streisand back to London early in 2019. Following a sell-out run at The Other Palace and sold-out performances at Wilton’s Music Hall, Liza Pulman Sings Streisand will return to the capital to play the Lyric Theatre to play four Monday night shows […]
Funny Girl cinema screening: ‘Fans will be able to relive this joyous show’
In less than a month Funny Girl fans will be able to relive this joyous show as a filmed version of the stage production will hit cinemas nationwide on 24 October 2018. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ There’s nothing like live theatre and it does feel quite distant sat in a […]
Liza Sings Streisand – Liza Pulman – Cadogan Hall and Touring
Liza Sings Streisand was reviewed at the Cadogan Hall, London. The show continues touring until 15 April 2018. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Liza Pulman, a member of the fabulous satirical singing trio Fascinating Aida, is touring her third solo show, Liza Sings Streisand. This classy, well put together performance steers […]
Liza Pulman to tour Streisand inspired show
Fascinating Aida’s Liza Pulman will take her third solo show Liza Pulman Sings Streisand on tour next month. Beginning at The Exchange in Sturminster on 6 October, the popular singer and comedienne will celebrate the songs of Barbra Streisand in the show which features Pulman and her six-piece band The Stardust Ensemble. The tour, including […]
Liza sings… Streisand – Liza Pulman – Live At Zédel
Liza sings… Streisand – Liza Pulman at Live At Zédel, London (also shows on 22 May and 12 June). Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ When adding Barbra Streisand’s first album to the Chapman record collection in 1963 (still have it and it’s still sounding special 54 years later), little did we […]
Christina Bianco – O Come All Ye Divas – Charing Cross Theatre
Christina Bianco – O Come All Ye Divas continues at the Charing Cross Theatre, London until 7 January 2017. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Christina Bianco has made a name for herself as a comedy impressionist of some renown, specialising in mimicking a range of larger-than-life singers. In this new Christmas […]
Funny Girl – Menier Chocolate Factory
Funny Girl continues at the Menier Chocolate Factory, London until 5 March, then transfers to the Savoy Theatre from 9 April to 10 September. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ It’s nigh on half a century since Barbra Streisand brought Funny Girl over from Broadway and I forked out a precious two pounds […]
Interview – Kerry Ellis and Louise Dearman prepare for their one-off London concert in September
If this interview is anything to go by, KERRY ELLIS and LOUISE DEARMAN’s one-off concert on 27 September is bound to be a fun-filled evening of great songs, fantastic anecdotes and a lot of laughs. Both actresses have an association with the musical Wicked, Dearman being the first person ever to play both Elphaba and Glinda in the […]
The Jewish Legends – Upstairs at the Gatehouse
The Jewish Legends continues at Upstairs at the Gatehouse, London, until 15 March. Star rating: 3 stars ★ ★ ★ Where to start with The Jewish Legends? There are so darn many of them this idea for a show, the great Jewish talents who have graced showbusiness down the years, could run longer than EastEnders. Part One gives us […]
Steven Brinberg is Simply Barbra – Crazy Coqs
Steven Brinberg is Simply Barbra continues at the Crazy Coqs, London until 20 September and returns from 22–25 September. Back due to phenomenal demand, Steven Brinberg provides a fascinating evening’s entertainment in the persona of Barbra Streisand – a persona that he has occupied for over a decade and claims to have played in more cities than the […]
Sleepin’ Bee – Theatre Michel, Paris
Sleepin’ Bee was performed at the Theatre Michel, Paris. What a joy after coming out of the lengthy showcase of Dance of the Vampires – scheduled for the Mogador Theatre next fall – to be able to listen to real music just next door at a performance of Sleepin’ Bee at Theatre Michel. Sleeping Bee, an […]
Ann Hampton Callaway – Crazy Coqs
Ann Hampton Callaway: Diva Power continues at the Crazy Coqs, London, until 12 April. It’s been 13 years since the multi-talented American singer-songwriter Ann Hampton Callaway last aired her amazing vocal pyrotechnics and wicked sense of fun in London town and that’s far, far too long. She claims she hasn’t been back since 2001 “because […]
Carole J Bufford – Crazy Coqs
Carole J Bufford performs her show Body and Soul at the Crazy Coqs, London until Saturday 11 January. Now we know why the New York cabaret world is raving about the new kid on the block. Carole J Bufford is very, very special. A standing ovation for her very first gig outside the USA at […]
Barbra Streisand – O2 Arena
Barbra Streisand performed at the O2 on June 1 and 3. Something of a miracle happened when Barbra Streisand succeeded in turning the cold and unwelcoming atmosphere of the O2 into an intimate family reunion. Where else but at this venue are you denied to move to better empty seats at intermission since you paid […]
