UNKNOWN SOLDIER – Original Cast Recording (Ghostlight Records – digital album) Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Written by Michael Friedman and Daniel Goldstein and produced on stage two and a half years after Friedman’s untimely death from AIDS at the age of 41, this is a beautiful piece of theatre written […]
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CD Review: (I Am) Nobody’s Lunch – Original Cast
(I AM) NOBODY’S LUNCH – Original Cast (Ghostlight Records – download) Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ What a wonderful concept. This show is: “A cabaret about how we know what we know when nobody knows if everyone else is lying and when someone or something wants to have you for lunch.” The […]
Loveless Texas – The Sheen Center, New York
Loveless Texas continues at The Sheen Center, New York until 24 September. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ The yen to turn Love’s Labour’s Lost, one of Shakespeare’s lesser-known comedies, into a musical can be a siren song. Kenneth Branagh’s 2000 film adaptation, which remade the play into a lush old-time (and […]
Royal Academy of Music – Love’s Labour’s Lost
Love’s Labour’s Lost was performed by the Royal Academy of Music’s Musical Theatre Company at Hackney Empire, London. This review refers to the cast at the Saturday evening performance (Cast A). Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ The lofty heights of Shakespearian adaptation have famously permeated the Broadway canon to its very […]
The Fortress of Solitude – The Public Theater, New York
The Fortress of Solitude contnues at The Public Theater, New York until 16 November. The Public Theater, one of New York’s most esteemed and venerable not-for-profit theatre companies has been stretching the boundaries of musical theatre for decades. In the 1960s and 1970s, it made theatrical history – and lucrative Off-Broadway to Broadway transfers – with […]
