Tink continues at The Other Palace Studio until 20 October 2024. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ Its message that girls, like fairies, don’t have to shrink away as they grow up is sweetly delivered, with moments of real emotional power.
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‘We’ll always have Paris’: Cabaret – Lido2 / 42nd Street – Theatre du Chatelet
They might (just) be able to beat us at football but British-based casts sure as hell get their own back with Kander and Ebb’s stupendous Cabaret at the sparkling new Lido2 on the Champs-Elysees and a long-delayed revival of tap-tap-tap triumphant 42nd Street at the regal Theatre du Chatelet down by the Seine.
‘Willkommen, Bienvenue, Welcome!’: Paris prepares for the Kander and Ebb classic Cabaret
The French, who didn’t use to favour Broadway musicals, now turn out in droves to see them and with Cabaret playing at the new Lido2 Theatre on the Champs-Elysees and 42nd Street paying an eagerly-awaited return visit to the Theatre du Chatelet down by the Seine, they have two Broadway musicals to choose from over the festive period. And you don’t have to pay London Kit Kat Club prices for a ticket!
Indecent Proposal – Southwark Playhouse
Indecent Proposal continues at Southwark Playhouse, London until 27 November 2021. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ The immortal playwright Tennessee Williams wrote: “In this world, there are only two kinds of people: The buyers and the ones that get bought.” This musical adaptation of Indecent Proposal clearly explores the darker side […]
Lizzy Connolly completes lead cast for Indecent Proposal premiere
Lizzy Connolly will take on the central role of Rebecca when the musical version of the 1980s novel Indecent Proposal receives its world premiere at London’s Southwark Playhouse this autumn. Connolly (Sweet Charity, Donmar Warehouse, On the Town, Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre) will join the previously announced Norman Bowman (42nd Street, Theatre Royal Drury […]
Casts announced for MTFestUK at the Turbine Theatre
A number of West End stars have been lined up to appear in each of the new musicals chosen to feature in the programme for Paul Taylor-Mills’ MTFestUK at the Turbine Theatre next month. Running from 3-15 February 2020 at the newly opened venue on the banks of the Thames in Battersea, the second MTFestUK […]
Oklahoma! – BBC Proms – Royal Albert Hall
Oklahoma! at the BBC Proms was performed at the Royal Albert Hall, London. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Few titles deserve their exclamation mark more than Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Oklahoma! The score sounds as fresh as it did when it was written in 1943 and at this semi-staged performance there might have been folk […]
Vanities – The Musical – Trafalgar Studios
Vanities – The Musical continues at Trafalgar Studios, London until 1 October. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Trafalgar Studios hosts a brilliant trio of women giving new life to Jack Heifner’s award-winning play Vanities. Premiering in New York in the late 1970s, the play became an international success, only avoiding the London stages because […]
