Midlife Cowboy continues at the Pleasance Theatre, London until 6 October 2019. Star rating: two stars ★ ★ ✩ ✩✩ There is a point in Midlife Cowboy where Stuart, the titular lead and longtime head of the Swindon Country and Western Club, wonders if he hasn’t been a little selfish in his approach to the play he’s […]
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World premiere for new British musical Midlife Cowboy
Comedian and best-selling author Tony Hawks will debut his new full-length musical, Midlife Cowboy at London’s Pleasance Theatre in September. Writer/director Hawks will also take to the stage as mid-life crisis suffering Stuart, alongside former Coronation Street favourite and gifted impressionist Debra Stephenson (Son of a Preacher Man, UK tour) as his country music-loving wife, […]
The Musical of Musicals (The Musical) – Above the Stag
The Musical of Musicals (the Musical) continues at Above the Stag, London until 22 December 2018. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Musical theatre composers have their certain foibles and tropes, those thematic elements which crop up from show to show. No more effectively is that illustrated than in Joanne Bogart and Eric Rockwell’s The […]
