The Secret Garden: The Musical continues at York Theatre Royal until 4 April 2026. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ The combined talents of an all-singing, playing, acting cast results in a magical, albeit abbreviated, version of the Secret Garden story.
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Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Musical – Theatre Royal Bath
Alfred Hitchcock Presents – The Musical continues at Theatre Royal Bath until 12 April 2025. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ Such a sophisticated and innovative production is a rare gem, making a visit to the beautiful Theatre Royal Bath a must-do before the show concludes its run.
Bath world premiere for Alfred Hitchcock Presents The Musical
Presented by Theatre Royal Bath Productions in association with Universal Theatrical Group, Alfred Hitchcock Presents The Musical will begin preview performances in Bath on 22 March 2025.
Carmen Jones – Classic Stage Company, New York
Carmen Jones continues at Classic Stage Company, New York until 29 July 2018. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Georges Bizet, Oscar Hammerstein II and John Doyle prove to be amazing collaborators. True, Bizet and Hammerstein have long left this earth, but the John Doyle-directed revival of Carmen Jones, which has just opened Off-Broadway at Classic […]
Pacific Overtures – Classic Stage Company, New York
Pacific Overtures continues at Classic Stage Company, New York until 18 June. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ If there’s such a thing as minimalist grandeur, director John Doyle achieves it with his rendering of Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman’s Pacific Overtures. Doyle is capping his first season as artistic director of […]
The Color Purple sets Broadway closing
The Tony Award-winning revival of The Color Purple will join the New Year exodus of Broadway musicals, setting a closing date of 8 January. With its final finale, the Broadway mounting, which opened last December, will have played 33 previews and 449 regular performances. The show was a transplant of director John Doyle’s searing reworking, […]
Cynthia Erivo wins Drama Desk Award for The Color Purple on Broadway
British singer actress Cynthia Erivo has collected a prestigious Drama Desk Award for her performance in the Broadway transfer of The Color Purple. The Londoner first played the role of Celie Harris in the Menier Chocolate Factory production in 2013. Following her Broadway debut in the transfer of the show last year, she has won the […]
The Color Purple – Bernard B Jacobs Theatre, New York
The Color Purple continues at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre, New York. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Director John Doyle’s wondrous redo of The Color Purple may be minimalist, but it’s drenched in emotion. At the same time, he has gloriously amped up this Broadway musical’s power as a feminist […]
The Visit – Lyceum Theatre, New York
The Visit continues at the Lyceum Theatre, New York. Star rating: 5 stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Standing downstage center in The Visit, the long-brewing Kander and Ebb musical that has finally reached Broadway, Chita Rivera playing Claire Zachanassian, the richest woman in the world, declares: “I’m unkillable.” The applause that greets this declaration is, of course, not […]
Kander and Ebb’s The Visit finally makes it to Broadway
The Visit, the brooding musical stew of love and revenge that has been cooking for years, will be served up on Broadway at last. As a last-minute addition to the 2014-2015 season, it will join the crush of musicals opening in April. The first-night curtain is to rise on 23 April, the final date for […]
Allegro – Classic Stage Company, New York
Allegro continues at Classic Stage Company, New York, until 14 December. “Of all the musicals I ever worked on that didn’t quite succeed,” Richard Rodgers writes in his autobiography Musical Stages, “Allegro is the one I think most worthy of a second chance.” Now that show is being given its second chance, thanks to director John […]
Broadway and Off-Broadway season – we preview what’s ahead
Ron Cohen writes: It’s almost autumn in New York but the thrill of first-nighting (as Vernon Duke expressed it in his classic song) won’t be felt on Broadway – at least as far as musicals are concerned – until mid-October when the first one of the fall opens, a revival of the enduring 1944 landmark On the Town. […]
The Visit – Williamstown Theatre Festival, Massachusetts
The Visit was performed as part of the Williamstown Theatre Festival, Massachusetts. This is a revamped 95-minute version of The Visit – one of the last collaborations between John Kander and Fred Ebb, with a book by Tony Award winner Terrence McNally – which is often entertaining and sometimes captivating. The production features Broadway legend Chita Rivera as Claire Zachanassian, the oft-widowed richest woman in the world who returns to the […]
Irma La Douce – Encores! – New York City Center
Irma La Douce, an Encores! Production, continues at New York City Center until 11 May. The Encores! series at New York City Center winds up its three-show season with a sprightly rendering of a Broadway hit from 1960, Irma La Douce. This tale of a Parisian streetwalker and the poor law student who becomes her […]
