Tony nominated and Olivier Award-winning actress Jenna Russell will step into the spotlight as Edith Piaf in Pam Gems’ Piaf – the reopening production at Nottingham Playhouse this summer. Presented by Nottingham Playhouse and Leeds Playhouse, the production which is directed by Nottingham’s artistic director Adam Penford had been due to debut in 2020 with […]
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‘Expect to be immersed in a gorgeous story’: Bernadette Robinson brings Songs For Nobodies to the West End
Written specifically to showcase the extraordinary talents of BERNADETTE ROBINSON, Songs For Nobodies is a 90-minute play featuring songs from five iconic divas: Judy Garland, Patsy Cline, Billie Holiday, Edith Piaf and Maria Callas, as each of them come into the lives of five ‘nobodies’. Bernadette takes on the divas in her one-woman show as she performs […]
Remembering Charles Aznavour
The singer-songwriter and actor left school at age nine having been encouraged by his father to become a performer. Thus began a career that lasted for over 85 years. He was still working, touring in Japan, until a few weeks before he died on 1 October 2018. Michael Darvell recalls the genius talent that was […]
Piaf – No Regrets: Christine Andreas – The Pheasantry
Piaf – No Regrets: Christine Andreas at The Pheasantry, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ One of the finest voices in the cabaret world, two-time Tony nominee Christine Andreas was at her electrifying best in a three-night residency at The Pheasantry. Superbly accompanied by composer husband Martin Silvestri on piano and […]
Hymn to Love – Jermyn Street Theatre
Hymn to Love continues at the Jermyn Street Theatre, London until 18 August 2018. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Edith Piaf was, and probably still is, the most famous French singer of our time. She was a popular figure all over the world and yet she came from very humble and tragic beginnings. […]
A Song Goes Round the World – St James Theatre Studio
A Song Goes Round the World at the St James Theatre Studio. London. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ This cabaret takes its patrons on a musical journey through 20th century European chansons and offers a chance, as the European continent seems to be drifting apart, for an audience to be reunited through music. The […]
Piaf – Charing Cross Theatre
Piaf continues at the Charing Cross Theatre, London until 2 January 2016. Star rating: two stars ★ ★ ✩ ✩ ✩ This month sees the centenary of Edith Piaf’s birth. Born Edith Gassion, the name by which she is best known derives from her nickname of ‘La Môme Piaf’ or ‘The Little Sparrow’. The diminutive […]
No Regrets – The Life Story and Songs of Edith Piaf – Leicester Square Theatre
No Regrets – The Life Story and Songs of Edith Piaf at the Leicester Square Theatre, London. Star rating: 5 stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ With only limited knowledge of the life story of the French singing legend that was Edith Piaf, I was intrigued to learn more about this icon during Linder Productions’ one-woman show, No Regrets. Starring […]
Judy Garland and Edith Piaf celebrated in two new shows from Linder Productions
Linder Productions is bringing its two critically acclaimed international touring productions to London this spring, celebrating the lives and music of the legendary performer Judy Garland and the iconic French chanteuse Edith Piaf. Not typical tribute shows, these productions are a blend of compelling stories, fascinating facts, charming humour and passionately performed Garland and Piaf classics. “The […]
Frances Ruffelle – Paris Original – St James Studio Theatre
Frances Ruffelle performs her show Paris Original at the St James Theatre Studio, London. Frances Ruffelle is one of those impressively versatile performers who has no problems shifting tickets for any of her shows, the Tony Award-winning actress here doing a three-night stint at the perfectly suited and highly intimate St James Studio. Being the […]
Frances Ruffelle – Paris Original – Crazy Coqs
Frances Ruffelle reprises her show Paris Original at the Crazy Coqs, London. Having created the role of Eponine in Les Miserables and recently re-created Edith Piaf at Leicester’s Curve, Frances Ruffelle is no stranger to the musical world of Paris and its street life. For Paris is the milieu where her cabaret act is set […]
Frances Ruffelle – French Connection
Frances Ruffelle’s new cabaret, Paris Original, will be a celebration of French singers and songs. The show premieres at the Crazy Coqs from 8–12 October and represents something of a golden Gallic thread that has run through her career. This began when, at the age of 19, she originated the role of Eponine in Les […]
