Chiswick Playhouse will mark its reopening with Chiswick Playhouse Recharged, a socially distanced festival of magic, musicals, comedy and more running from 17 May to 27 June 2021. The programme includes two nostalgic and powerful musical productions presented by Scenaria, The Soprano Behind the Screen: The Untold Story of Marni Nixon and a brand-new song […]
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Book Review: Wild Card – Martin Milnes
WILD CARD – Martin Milnes (Paperback ZULEIKA: ISBN 9781916197725 – also Audiobooks) Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Martin Milnes was born in the wrong era – or at least that’s how it seemed. As a child he wore jazz-shoes to his junior school disco, expecting eight-year-olds to Mambo like the dancers […]
London’s Playground announces autumn shows
New London venue, The Playground Theatre has unveiled a first full autumn season featuring two world premiere productions and a Christmas revival of Mary Rodgers and Marshall Barer’s musical Once Upon a Mattress. Following a successful first year, the West London theatre will open its autumn Season with the world premiere of The Paradise Circus […]
Once Upon a Mattress – Abrons Art Center, New York
Once Upon a Mattress continues at the Abrons Art Center, New York until 3 January. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Jackie Hoffman, whose grumpy persona has provoked supporting player belly laughs in such Broadway offerings as Hairspray and On the Town, grabs the spotlight as a fully-fledged leading lady in the new […]
Composer Adam Guettel – why he is drawn to cabaret
Composer, lyricist, performer, teacher and conservationist, Adam Guettel, a patron of the 2014 London Festival of Cabaret, will appear in concert and conversation with Maria Friedman at the Ambassadors Theatre on 20 and 21 May. Guettel’s musical The Light In The Piazza premiered on Broadway in 2005 and received six Tony Awards. Guettel also wrote […]
