The Scottsboro Boys continues at the Garrick Theatre until 21 February 2015. Any play dealing with America’s troubled racial history can struggle to feel like it has a place on a British stage at times. There isn’t quite the same sense of shared history, so what can feel raw and visceral to US audiences risks leaving their […]
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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 […]
Flora, the Red Menace – Guildford School of Acting
Flora, The Red Menace is performed by Guildford School of Acting MA Musical Theatre students at the Ivy Arts Centre, Guildford, Surrey. Unless you’ve lived near Dundee, Richmond, Brighton or the London Fringe, you are unlikely to have seen Kander and Ebb’s first collaboration Flora, the Red Menace, as this 1965 forerunner to Cabaret and Chicago has never made […]
Carin Filipcic – Telling Stories – Theater Akzent, Vienna
Carin Filipcic performed Telling Stories at the Theater Akzent, Vienna. After appearing in numerous productions (Der Mann von la Mancha, Xanadu, Rebecca, Romeo & Julia, Mozart) in both Austria and Germany, as well as performing in various concerts and cabarets, Austria’s first lady of musicals, Carin Filipcic, presented her first ever programme entitled Telling Stories at […]
The Scottsboro Boys – Young Vic
The Scottsboro Boys continues at the Young Vic, London until 21 December. Once in a while an original cast album comes along that really excites, grabs the imagination and makes one long to see it staged. The Scottsboro Boys was such a one. After a long wait, it’s hats off to the Young Vic for […]
Chicago – Oldham Coliseum
Chicago continues at the Coliseum Theatre, Oldham until 12 October. “Give ’em the old razzle dazzle, razzle dazzle ’em. Give ’em an act with lots of flash in it, and the reaction will be passionate.” And that is exactly what Kevin Shaw’s new actor/musician production of Chicago does at the Oldham Coliseum. This is the […]
Cabaret – Wimbledon Theatre and Touring
Cabaret was reviewed at the New Wimbledon Theatre, London before continuing on tour. Never mind what those ‘Best Musicals of All Time’ polls say, John Kander and Fred Ebb’s hilarious, poignant and, yes, frankly shocking interpretation of Christopher Isherwood’s autobigraphical novel is one of the greatest ever written, some would say THE greatest, and now […]
