NEIL SIMON, the most prolific comedy writer in the world who died on 26 August 2018 at the age of 91, had a very long career as a writer for television, the theatre and the cinema. There was just nobody else to match him, not even Shakespeare! Michael Darvell looks back at the life of a total comic […]
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Royal Academy of Music Musical Theatre Company – I feel a song coming on…
Royal Academy of Music Musical Theatre Company – I feel a song coming on… was performed at the Royal Over-Seas League, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ I feel a song coming on… is a cabaret celebrating the work of Dorothy Fields who at the tender age of 24 became a […]
Sweet Charity – Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester
Sweet Charity continues at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester until 28 January 2017. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ A whirling dervish of swinging sixties joie de vivre with a perfect storm of creative talent behind it, it’s no wonder that Sweet Charity still holds up so well 50 years after it first hot-footed […]
Feminine Persuasion – Ann Hampton Callaway Celebrates Women Songwriters – Crazy Coqs
Feminine Persuasion – Ann Hampton Callaway Celebrates Women Songwriters continues at Crazy Coqs, London until 24 April, as part of the London Festival of Cabaret. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ There aren’t enough stars in the galaxy adequately to convey the extraordinary pleasure of spending 90 minutes in the company of this […]
Sweet Charity – New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich
Sweet Charity continues at the New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich until 26 September. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ There is a bitter sweet quality in a good production of Sweet Charity, and Peter Rowe’s staging brings out all the comic tragedy of Neil Simon’s book. We see the seedy side of 1960s New York through the eyes of […]
Sweet Charity – Cadogan Hall
Sweet Charity was performed at the Cadogan Hall, London. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ As this year’s summer musical, the Cadogan Hall treated us to a concert version of Sweet Charity, just five years after the last London revival of this classic show transferred from the Menier Chocolate Factory to the Haymarket. Adapted by […]
