Murder For Two – A Killer Musical Comedy continues at the Barn Theatre, Cirencester until 5 March 2022. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Yet again another very enjoyable evening at the Barn Theatre Cirencester. The first production in the 2022 Built By Barn season is a new revival production of Kellen […]
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Cast for Barn Theatre’s re-imagined Murder For Two
Actor-musician graduate in 2020 Lee O’ Reilly will make his professional debut in The Barn Theatre’s new production of musical comedy Murder For Two next month. O’Reilly will play Officer Marcus Moscowicz alongside Sam Denia (Anton Chekhov’s Sketches and Vaudevilles) as the Suspects in the opening production of the 2022 Built By Barn season at […]
Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens – Union Theatre
Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens continues at the Union Theatre, London – until 8 June 2019. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ It is easy to forget, in these days of effective drug treatments, that life for HIV-positive people was so very different 30 years ago. There was no drug […]
Marc Almond and Soft Cell-inspired musical Tainted to be showcased in London
The distinctive songs of Marc Almond and Soft Cell form the basis of new stage musical Tainted which will debut in London with a special public showcase performance later this month. Featuring a book by Michael McManus and Charlie Ross Mackenzie and songs from every stage of Almond’s career, the show is described as a […]
Salad Days – Richmond Theatre and Touring
Salad Days continues at Richmond Theatre until 15 September 2018, then tours until 17 November. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Salad Days wears its 64 years lightly. It still has the silliest storylines and awful puns that composer Julian Slade and lyricist Dorothy Reynolds wrote, but also all the charm and feelgood factor that […]
Wendi Peters to join Salad Days autumn tour
Former Coronation Street favourite Wendi Peters will star in a major new touring production of classic British musical Salad Days this autumn. Presented by Regan de Wynter productions, director Bryan Hodgson’s re-imagining of the show which debuted in Bristol in 1954 will begin its UK tour to the Theatre Royal, Brighton from 5 to 8 […]
Twang!! – Union Theatre
Twang!! continues at the Union Theatre, London until 5 May 2018. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ The original production of Lionel Bart’s Twang!! opened in the West End in December 1965 and despite a stellar cast including James Booth, Barbara Windsor, Ronnie Corbett and Bernard Bresslaw, it ran for only 43 […]
Updated version of Lionel Bart’s Twang!! to play at the Union Theatre
The updated version of Lionel Bart’s 1965 musical Twang!! will make its professional debut at Union Theatre next month. Featuring Bart’s original music and lyrics, a new book by Julian Woolford and arrangements and orchestrations by Richard John and Oli Jackson, the production will play the London venue from 11 April until 5 May. The […]
Salad Days – Union Theatre
Salad Days continues at the Union Theatre, London until 9 September. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ The 1950s musical Salad Days is, let’s face it, an odd one. Ostensibly the story of two Oxbridge graduates who rebel against their parents in the most genteel of ways – by marrying and getting […]
Union Theatre to stage Salad Days 63 years after its West End debut
Classic British musical Salad Days will return to London next month over six decades since it made its West End debut. Reimagined for the Union Theatre later this month, director Bryan Hodgson’s new production of the show which debuted in the capital in 1954 will play a strictly limited season at the Off-West End venue […]
Chaplin – The Charlie Chaplin Story – Aylesbury and Touring
Chaplin: The Charlie Chaplin Story was reviewed at the Waterside Theatre, Aylesbury and continues touring until 24 July. Rating: two and a half stars There was enough drama in Charlie Chaplin’s life to create a lengthy mini-series, so perhaps it makes sense that the creators of this musical play (librettist Stuart Price and composer Jake […]
