International opera singer and actress Rebecca Caine is currently on tour across the UK with her show Dividing Day, ‘a journey of self-discovery with help from writers including Bernstein, Bucchino, Guettel, La Chiusa, Sondheim, Weill and Yeston’. accompanied by Nathan Martin on the piano.
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Hello Again – Union Theatre
Hello Again continues at the Union Theatre, London until 21 September 2019. Star rating: two stars ★ ★ ✩ ✩ ✩ This show is effectively a rather bitty song cycle featuring ten scenes in which ten performers explore coupledom in various combinations. Inspired (or something) by the play La Ronde by Arthur Schnitzler, Michael John LaChiusa’s songs […]
Queen of the Mist – Charing Cross Theatre
Queen of the Mist continues at the Charing Cross Theatre, London until 5 October 2019. Star rating: two stars ★ ★ ✩ ✩ ✩ In 1890s America, Niagara Falls had become well known for people’s desire to combine vaudevillian performance with stunts that were rather less death-defying than death-inviting. Perhaps the most well-known was the […]
Royal Academy of Music – The Wild Party
The Wild Party was performed by the Royal Academy of Music at the Susie Sainsbury Theatre, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Although I hated The Wild Party, such was the brilliance of the direction (Hannah Chissick), choreography (Chris Whittaker), set design (David Harris), all the dancing and most of the acting/singing, it […]
Transfer run for Pint Of Wine’s Queen of the Mist
Pint of Wine’s critically-acclaimed European professional premiere of Michael John LaChiusa’s Queen of the Mist will transfer to the Charing Cross Theatre this summer. Following on from its successful sold-out run Jack Studio Theatre in Brockley in April, the new theatre company’s version of LaChiusa’s award-winning show will play a limited seven-week season at the […]
Interview – Frances Ruffelle invites you to a Wild Party at The Other Palace
FRANCES RUFFELLE has one of the most idiosyncratic voices of any singer in the West End or Broadway. Hers is a husky, sultry sound, with an unmistakeable rawness and vulnerability that is sure to make her the perfect fit for the role of Queenie in composer-lyricist Michael John LaChiusa’s version of The Wild Party, which opens […]
Casting for The Wild Party includes John Owen-Jones and Donna McKechnie
Full casting has been revealed for the first major London production of Michael John LaChiusa’s The Wild Party at The Other Palace early next year. Joining the previously announced Frances Ruffelle are John Owen-Jones, Simon Thomas, Donna McKechnie, Dex Lee, Victoria Hamilton-Barritt, Ako Mitchell, Gloria Obianyo, Genesis Lynea, Melanie Bright, Lizzy Connolly, Steven Serlin, Sebastian […]
The Wild Party – Drew McOnie directs – Frances Ruffelle stars
Award-winners Drew McOnie and Frances Ruffelle will join forces for the first major London production of Michael John LaChiusa’s The Wild Party at The Other Palace early next year. Formerly the St James Theatre, the newest addition to The Really Useful Theatres Group will mark its debut as a new home for musical theatre with […]
First Daughter Suite – The Public Theater, New York
First Daughter Suite continues at The Public Theater, New York until 15 November. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Composer-lyricist-librettist Michael John LaChiusa is known for creating demanding and somewhat esoteric musical theatre. And for audiences up for that kind of work, his latest opus, First Daughter Suite, will not disappoint. It […]
Hello Again – Hope Theatre
Hello Again continues at the Hope Theatre, London until 7 November. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ It’s almost as if there is a version of La Ronde running every week somewhere on the London Fringe. Adaptations of Arthur Schnitzler’s cyclic play come in various shapes and sizes from David Hare’s renowned […]
TODAY! Top West End performers support Hello Again revival
Today performers from some of the West End’s biggest shows will join forces for a special concert to raise funds for the first British revival of Michael John LaChiusa’s Off-Broadway musical Hello Again at The Hope Theatre, Islington next month. Proceeds of the concert entitled Lust and Love at the Actors’ Church in London’s Covent Garden […]
Interview – Jonathan Butterell on why See What I Wanna See has made him want to act again
JONATHAN BUTTERELL, who choreographed the original production of Michael John LaChiusa’s Off-Broadway hit See What I Wanna See at New York’s Public Theater, has joined the cast of its London premiere at the Jermyn Street Theatre after a 22-year break from acting (in recent times he has been mainly concentrating on directing). Jonathan also directed the premieres of Michael John LaChiusa’s other works Giant and Tres Nińas. […]
See What I Wanna See – Jermyn Street Theatre
See What I Wanna See continues at the Jermyn Street Theatre until 3 October. Rating: two stars ★★✩✩✩ A collection of short stories rarely makes the best material for a coherent full-length musical, a point proved by Michael John LaChiusa’s See What I Wanna See, a misfiring hotchpotch of trite tropes that one of London’s best Fringe […]
See What I Wanna See – original choreographer Jonathan Butterell joins cast
Casting has been announced for Michael John LaChiusa’s Off-Broadway hit See What I Wanna See, which will receive its London premiere in a limited four-week run at Jermyn Street Theatre from Tuesday 8 September to Saturday 3 October, with a press night on Friday 11 September, 7.30pm. The cast features Jonathan Butterell as The Janitor/The Priest, Marc Elliott as The Thief/A Reporter, Cassie […]
Off-Broadway musical See What I Wanna See has London premiere at Jermyn Street Theatre
Michael John LaChiusa’s Off-Broadway hit See What I Wanna See will receive its London premiere in a limited four-week run at Jermyn Street Theatre from Tuesday 8 September to Saturday 3 October, with a press night on Friday 11 September. See What I Wanna See is a vibrant and provocative new musical that explores the nature of truth, and how it is altered by perspective. From medieval Japan where […]
