Road Show continues at Upstairs at the Gatehouse, London until 12 January 2025. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Director/choreographer Amanda Noar has done a superb job of transposing the show into this wonderfully intimate and welcoming space.
Tag Archives | John Weidman
Assassins – Chichester Festival Theatre
Assassins continues at the Chichester Festival Theatre until 24 June 2023. Star rating: five stars ★★★★★
Full cast for Chichester Festival Theatre’s Assassins
The full company has been unveiled for the Chichester Festival Theatre’s upcoming production of Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman’s Assassins.
Menier announces three major musical productions for 2023
The Menier Chocolate Factory is returning to its musical theatre roots with a 2023 season that will feature two world premiere musicals and a revival of a Stephen Sondheim classic.
Assassins – Watermill Theatre, Bagnor
Assassins continues at the Watermill Theatre, Bagnor until 26 October 2019. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Every time I see Assassins, I like it more and more and this darkly comic Watermill revival of the controversial Stephen Sondheim/John Weidman take on the American dream that “every now and then goes a […]
Big the Musical – Dominion Theatre
Big the Musical continues at the Dominion Theatre, London until 2 November 2019. Star rating: two stars ★ ★ ✩ ✩ ✩ Why does the theatre think it can eclipse the success of one art form by turning it into a musical? Musical theatre shows are seldom totally original entities, but are often adaptations of […]
Road Show – Encores! Off-Center – New York City Center
Road Show, an Encores! Off-Center production, played at New York City Center. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman’s Road Show is a brilliant but daunting enterprise, so all kinds of credit and thanks have to be heaped on the Encores! Off-Center series for giving us another look at it. […]
Assassins – Pleasance Theatre
Assassins continues at the Pleasance Theatre until 8 April 2018. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Assassins is a show that I’ve seen countless times, but only really fully enjoyed on a handful of occasions. It’s a tricky show for newcomers to the material, set as it is in a limbo-like carnival […]
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 […]
London College of Music – Assassins
Assassins is performed by the London College of Music, Ealing until 30 April. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ London College of Music, the musical theatre arm of the University of West London, has always had a soft spot for the rich catalogue of the genius that is Stephen Sondheim and this year’s effort with […]
Road Show – Union Theatre
Road Show continues at the Union Theatre, London until 5 March. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ The adage that musical aren’t written but rewritten could’ve been conceived to describe Road Show – Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman’s portrait of two real-life brothers wrestling with the American Dream at the turn of the 20th century. […]
Road Show at the Union Theatre – meet the cast
Thanks to Musical Theatre Review’s official photographer Roy Tan, below you can meet the cast of the UK revival of Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman’s Road Show, presented by the Union Theatre and Phil Willmott Company and opening this week. At the turn of the last century old Pa Meisner sends his sons, the charming and ruthless Wilson and […]
Road Show at the Union Theatre – new behind the scenes images
Previews have begun for the UK revival of Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman’s Road Show, presented by the Union Theatre and Phil Willmott Company (press nights are Wednesday 10 February and Thursday 11 February). At the turn of the last century old Pa Meisner sends his sons, the charming and ruthless Wilson and the thoughtful, unambitious Addison […]
Sondheim’s Road Show revived at the Union Theatre
The Union Theatre and the Phil Willmott Company are presenting the first UK revival of Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman’s Road Show from 3 February to 5 March 2016 (press nights are Wednesday 10 February and Thursday 11 February). At the turn of the last century old Pa Meisner sends his sons, the charming and ruthless Wilson and the thoughtful, unambitious Addison off to […]
Assassins – Michael Xavier and Anna Francolini join cast
Michael Xavier and Anna Francolini are joining the cast of Jamie Lloyd’s production of Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman’s Assassins at London’s Menier Chocolate Factory from 10 February. Xavier takes over the role of John Wilkes Booth from Aaron Tveit. The latter is leaving the run due to a change in his schedule for the […]
Assassins – Menier Chocolate Factory
Assassins continues at the Menier Chocolate Factory, London, until 7 March 2015. Don’t bet against Assassins following Merrily We Roll Along, the last Sondheim musical the Menier staged, into the West End as it’s a humdinger of a show, hard to stomach at times, but never less than fascinating – a stunning ensemble piece brilliantly directed […]
Interview – Carly Bawden and Simon Lipkin on Sondheim’s Assassins at the Menier Chocolate Factory
When asked to name his favourite self-penned musical, Stephen Sondheim’s response, if he deigns to answer such a trite question, is often Assassins, the show he wrote with book writer John Weidman. “I wouldn’t change a thing,” he says of this 1990 revue-style musical about the people who’ve made attempts on the lives of American […]
Assassins at the Menier – Catherine Tate and Mike McShane star
Carly Bawden, Simon Lipkin, Mike McShane, Andy Nyman, David Roberts and Catherine Tate have been cast in Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman’s Assassins, directed by Jamie Lloyd, at the Menier Chocolate Factory from 21 November 2014 to 7 March 2015 (press night is 1 December). Public booking opens today (Monday 8 September). Thirteen people have tried to kill the president of the United States. Four have succeeded. […]
Pacific Overtures – Union Theatre, London
Pacific Overtures continues at the Union Theatre, London until 2 August. The almost-operatic Pacific Overtures was never going to be easy listening and it’s certainly not everybody’s cup of sake but the 45-seater Union Theatre appears to have itself an unexpected hit with this classy Michael Strassen revival of one of Stephen Sondheim’s most complex and ambitious […]
