Cold War continues at the Almeida Theatre, London until 30 January 2024. Star rating: two stars ★ ★ ✩ ✩ ✩ For a venue’s big Christmas show, it’s traditional for a venue to go for something crowd-pleasing, optimistic, something to add sparkle to the drab winter evenings. So it’s a bold choice by the Almeida to go against the flow and instead bring a drab, overlong dirge of a half-musical instead.
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Cold War – Almeida Theatre
Almeida announces world premiere of Cold War plus cinema screenings of Spring Awakening
The Almeida Theatre’s artistic director Rupert Goold will direct the world premiere of Conor McPherson’s adaptation of Pawel Pawlikowski’s Academy Award-nominated Cold War.
Music Review: Cabaret At The Kit Kat Club – 2021 London Cast Recording
CABARET – London 2021 Cast Recording (Decca Records). Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ If you cannot get to the show itself, the album is the next best thing.
Cabaret triumphs with seven awards at Olivier Awards 2022 while Back To The Future wins Best New Musical
The winners have been unveiled for this year’s Olivier Awards with Mastercard, British theatre’s biggest night, which took place at London’s Royal Albert Hall in London, hosted by Jason Manford. The biggest winner of the night was Cabaret, a revival of the 1966 Kander and Ebb musical which has transformed the West End’s Playhouse Theatre […]
Cabaret leads nominations for Olivier Awards 2022
Musicals are once again making their presence felt in the nominations for the Olivier Awards 2022 with Mastercard with the innovative West End revival of Cabaret topping the list with 11 nominations. In the running for the Magic Radio Best Musical Revival, the production which has transformed the Playhouse Theatre into the Kit Kat Club […]
Cabaret – Kit Kat Club – Playhouse Theatre
Cabaret continues at the Kit Kat Club, London (Playhouse Theatre). Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ The post-lockdown rebirth of the West End has been centred around escapism and shelter from the political and economic turmoil of the last few years. Kudos to the producers of Cabaret for backing a very different […]
Full cast and more tickets released for London’s new Cabaret
Full casting has been confirmed for the new London production of Cabaret at the newly created Kit Kat Club. As previously announced the innovative production will feature multi-award-winning movie actor Eddie Redmayne (The Theory of Everything, Red, West End and Broadway) in his genre debut as The Emcee opposite BAFTA nominee and British Independent Film […]
Nine Lessons and Carols: Stories for a long winter – Almeida Theatre
Nine Lessons and Carols continues at the Almeida Theatre, London until 9 January 2021. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ This year has been hard on everyone. Cut off from friends and family, or alternatively trapped with someone you can only tolerate in the smallest of doses. And, of course, unable to […]
