Please Please Me continues at the Kiln Theatre, London until 29 May 2026. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ See another side to the band whose artistic and cultural impact remains unsurpassed 60 years on. Flawed but fab.
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Come Together – Barb Jungr and John McDaniel – St James Theatre Studio
Come Together – Barb Jungr and John McDaniel – continues at the St James Theatre Studio, London until 29 November. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ If there were a London cabaret theatre crown, it would rest on Barb Jungr’s head. Her reputation for giving great performances and interpretation of songbooks that […]
Mark McGann brings John Lennon musical In My Life back to Liverpool
On 30 August 2015, actor, director, writer and musician Mark McGann brings his acclaimed show based on the life of John Lennon, In My Life, to the Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool. Part-concert, part-narration, In My Life bears the distinction of being the only theatrical work about Lennon which is endorsed by his immediate family. It was performed to a sell-out house at the Royal Court last […]
Lennon: Through a Glass Onion – Union Square Theatre, New York
Lennon: Through a Glass Onion continues at the Union Square Theatre, New York until 22 February 2015. John R. Waters (a noted London-born Australian performer not to be confused with the quirky American filmmaker John Waters) makes an imposing figure as he takes to the stage in Lennon: Through a Glass Onion. The production, created and performed […]
Let It Be – Palace Theatre, Manchester and Touring
Let It Be continues at the Palace Theatre, Manchester until 8 March, before touring until 5 July 2014. I’m not sure that, strictly speaking, you could class Let It Be, a theatrical tribute to the Fab Four – which has been a West End mainstay since its debut in 2012 – as a musical. Forty of […]
Hot Stuff dazzles, sizzles and giggles
Playing at the Curve, Leicester until May 26. There is an insatiable appetite in Leicester for the rock musical Hot Stuff, an audacious, impudent, high-energy re-working of the Faust legend in which Joe Soap abandons his sweetheart, Julie, on the dance floor and sells his soul to Lucy Fur for fame and fortune as a rock singer. […]
