London’s Finborough Theatre has commissioned the first professional UK production of David Heneker and Warner Brown’s The Biograph Girl in nearly four decades. Part of the award-winning venue’s Celebrating British Music Theatre series, the show which focuses on the relationship between film directing legend D.W. Griffith and silent movie leading ladies Lillian Gish and Mary […]
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It is Easy to Be Dead – Finborough Theatre
It is Easy to Be Dead continues at the Finborough Theatre, London until 9 July. Rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Neil McPherson’s exploration of a young poet fatally caught up in the First World War could not arrive at a better time. Not only do centenary events continue to commemorate the conflict, but we face the uncertainty of our […]
Free As Air – Finborough Theatre
Free As Air continues at the Finborough Theatre, London until 21 October. Free As Air, originally produced at the Savoy Theatre in 1957, was the musical that the composer Julian Slade and his co lyricist-author Dorothy Reynolds wrote while Salad Days, their first collaboration, was still playing at the Vaudeville Theatre across the way in the Strand. It […]
Valley of Song CD launch – Finborough Theatre
Following a successful run of Ivor Novello’s last musical show Valley of Song, the cast of the Finborough Theatre production have recorded the songs for the first-ever CD of the score. Michael Darvell reports… Many London fringe theatres have a policy of producing new work, none more so than the tiny Finborough Theatre above what was […]
