New UK Musicals: Live in Concert at The Other Palace, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ In the UK, new musical theatre writing, and particularly new British writing, is something of a Cinderella – it tends to get overlooked. With the West End filled with established long-runners and an endless cycle of […]
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Superhero – Southwark Playhouse
Superhero continues at the Southwark Playhouse, London until 22 July. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Not every superhero wears a cape, and not everyone who wears a cape is a superhero. In the Southwark Playhouse’s new one-man musical Superhero, directed by Adam Lenson, Michael Rouse plays a man who struggles to […]
Michael Rouse stars in Superhero at the Southwark Playhouse
Michael Rouse will star in the world premiere of the one-man musical Superhero at London’s Southwark Playhouse from 28 June to 22 July 2017 (press night is 30 June). Directed by Adam Lenson and written by Richy Hughes, Joseph Finlay and Michael Conley (based on an original idea by Hughes), Superhero is the first musical […]
Sondheim Society Student Performer of the Year 2015/Stiles & Drewe Prize – Garrick Theatre
Stephen Sondheim Society Student Performer of the Year competition/Stiles & Drewe Best New Song prize at the Garrick Theatre, London. Hats off, here they come, those Beautiful Girls! Yes, girl power ruled the roost at the Sondheim Society’s student ‘Oscars’ for the second year running and, to rub it in, they grabbed runner-up honours as […]
