NEIL SIMON, the most prolific comedy writer in the world who died on 26 August 2018 at the age of 91, had a very long career as a writer for television, the theatre and the cinema. There was just nobody else to match him, not even Shakespeare! Michael Darvell looks back at the life of a total comic […]
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Casting details for Promises, Promises at Southwark Playhouse
Casting has been announced for the first major London production of the hit Broadway show Promises, Promises since its 1969 West End premiere. Directed by Bronagh Lagan, the new production of the multi award-winning show will play the Southwark Playhouse from Friday 13 January 2017 until Saturday 18 February with a press night on Tuesday […]
Booking open for Promises, Promises at Southwark Playhouse
Booking opened this week for the first major London production of the hit Broadway show Promises, Promises since its 1969 West End premiere. The new production of the multi award-winning show will play the Southwark Playhouse from Friday 13 January 2017 until Saturday 18 February. Featuring a number of timeless pop songs from the songwriting […]
Promises, Promises to return to London for first time since 1969
Promises, Promises – the hit Broadway musical based on the multi Oscar-winning 1960 film The Apartment – with music by Burt Bacharach, lyrics by Hal David and book by Neil Simon, is to get its first London production since its 1969 West End premiere. Promises, Promises, about a junior executive at an insurance company who sets out to […]
Sweet Charity – New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich
Sweet Charity continues at the New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich until 26 September. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ There is a bitter sweet quality in a good production of Sweet Charity, and Peter Rowe’s staging brings out all the comic tragedy of Neil Simon’s book. We see the seedy side of 1960s New York through the eyes of […]
The Goodbye Girl – Upstairs at the Gatehouse
The Goodbye Girl continues at Upstairs at the Gatehouse, London until 28 February. Star rating: 4 stars **** This soft-centred musical version of Neil Simon’s witty Oscar-nominated film – which won a Best Actor gong for Richard Dreyfuss in 1978 – has a sweet nature, a good heart and wonderful chemistry between the leads Paul Keating and Rebecca Bainbridge. […]
The Goodbye Girl musical revived at the Gatehouse in Feb 2015
For the first time in 18 years, Neil Simon’s The Goodbye Girl will be re-introduced to the UK in a brand new production at London’s Upstairs at the Gatehouse. It will be directed by Adam Lenson (associate director on the Olivier Award-winning production of Merrily We Roll Along), with musical direction by Richard Bates (Broadway […]
Little Me – Encores! – New York City Center
Little Me, presented by Encores!, continues at New York City Center until 9 February. Little Me, with its book by Neil Simon and its score by lyricist Carolyn Leigh and composer Cy Coleman, captures the joy-giving essence of those two oft-maligned words: musical comedy. This show from 1962 has plenty of great comedy and plenty […]
