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A Little Night Music – Edinburgh Festival Fringe
A Little Night Music continues at the Assembly Rooms – Music Hall (alternating with Fountain of You) until 25 August 2024. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ Such a talented cast belies that this is a student production.
A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Forum – Lido2, Paris
A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Forum continues at Lido2, Paris until 4 February 2024. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Why not revive Forum which brings such joy to everyone?
National Youth Music Theatre – Merrily We Roll Along
Merrily We Roll Along was performed by the National Youth Music Theatre at the Southwark Playhouse Elephant, London. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩
Merrily From Center Stage: Ann Morrison – Crazy Coqs
Merrily From Center Stage: Ann Morrison at Crazy Coqs, London. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩
Exclusive: Paris’ Lido2 to stage A Funny Thing Happened On The Way to the Forum
Fresh from a triumph with their opening English-language musical Cabaret, Paris’ newest theatre, the Lido2 in the Champs-Elysees, has announced its first show back following a ten-month closedown for a major makeover will be the hilarious A Funny Thing Happened On The Way to the Forum at the end of the year.
CD Review: I Know Things Now – Jeff Harnar
I KNOW THINGS NOW – JEFF HARNAR (PS Classics). Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ This Jeff Harnar CD of the deeply personal Sondheim show he performed pre-pandemic at London’s Crazy Coqs and in February at The Pheasantry is the real, beautifully packaged deal. On the cover and in the booklet inside […]
Into the Woods – Theatre Royal Bath
Into the Woods continues at Theatre Royal Bath until 10 September 2022. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ The eagerly anticipated – and long-delayed – production of Sondheim and Lapine’s Into the Woods co-directed by Terry Gilliam and Leah Hausman finally opened this August, not at its originally intended home of the Old Vic […]
London return for Tim McArthur’s Sondheim’s Divas
Actor, presenter and cabaret performer Tim McArthur will take his celebration of Stephen Sondheim’s leading ladies to London’s Hippodrome for one night only later this month. The Sondheim aficionado, known for hosting the popular Sondheim Society’s monthly Cabaret Nights for three years, will step into the spotlight once again with his Sondheim’s Divas show on […]
Tickets for a live screening of the sold-out Sondheim’s Old Friends Gala to be released
Tickets for a live screening at the Prince Edward Theatre of the sold-out Sondheim’s Old Friends Gala are to be released today, 30 March 2022. Priority will be given to the thousands of people who signed up in the hope of securing tickets but couldn’t be accommodated for the performance at the Sondheim Theatre. Booking […]
INTERVIEW: Rob Houchen, Celinde Schoenmaker & MD Arlene McNaught discuss Marry Me A Little at the Barn Theatre Cirencester
Fresh from storming the barricades of Britain’s Got Talent, ROB HOUCHEN (Les Misérables, Light in the Piazza, Candide) joins his cast mate, CELINDE SCHOENMAKER (The Phantom of the Opera, Rocketman, Light in the Piazza) and musical director ARLENE MCNAUGHT (Six, Little Miss Sunshine) to talk about a new revival of Stephen Sondheim’s Marry Me A […]
Cast for Barn Theatre’s Recovery productions of Marry Me A Little and Peter Pan
Rob Houchen (Les Misérables) and Celinde Schoenmaker (The Phantom of the Opera) will take to the stage in the Barn Theatre’s new revival of Stephen Sondheim’s Marry Me A Little. Directed by Kirk Jameson, the production will reunite the stars who previously appeared together in the 2019 London premiere of the Adam Guettel musical The […]
Take Me To The World: Sondheim 90th Birthday Celebration
Take Me To The World: Sondheim 90th Birthday Celebration – Live on Broadway.com’s YouTube channel. Never mind it’s over a month since Stephen Sondheim celebrated his 90th birthday, never mind the show started 70 minutes past its advertised time because of technical difficulties, this almighty love-in for a musical legend was well worth the wait. […]
A Crossword of Sondheimian Rhyme
Stephen Sondheim is probably theatre’s greatest living lyricist. This is a compliment he may or may not be sick of reading, especially after last month’s deluge of well-deserved 90th birthday encomiums. Either way, as a (somewhat less-acclaimed) musical theatre maker myself I know there is something every proud lyricist could never tire of: people noticing […]
Janie Dee – Live at Zédel
Janie Dee continues at Live at Zédel, London on 16 and 17 March 2018. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ “Making an entrance again with my usual flair,” so sings Desiree Armfeldt in A Little Night Music, and no one can deny Janie Dee that accolade as she entered Live at Zédel stage right in a […]
Janie Dee – Live at Zédel
Janie Dee continues at Live at Zédel, London on 16 and 17 March 2018. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Janie Dee returns to cabaret after her sensational performance in the National Theatre’s production of Follies. After the ice cold Phyllis, Dee transforms herself into a sultry piece of mischief, sweeping into the room and […]
Melissa Errico Sings Sondheim – Live at Zédel
Melissa Errico Sings Sondheim at Live at Zédel, London until 25 February 2018. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Sometimes five stars aren’t enough. Such was the case with the hypnotic New York star Melissa Errico’s triumphant solo UK debut at Zedel’s, 90 minutes of pure bliss. A vision in black with long […]
Chester Storyhouse summer season to open with A Little Night Music
Stephen Sondheim’s haunting A Little Night Music will be the opening production of the 2018 summer season at Chester’s multi award-winning arts venue Storyhouse. The first of three pieces of home-produced work in the season, A Little Night Music will play the distinctive theatre within the former 1930s Odeon cinema building from 5 May until […]
Lovett + Todd – King’s Head Theatre
Lovett + Todd continues at the King’s Head Theatre, London until 1 August. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ It’s an audacious theatre company that tackles a brand new musical inspired by Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street. But it’s the kind of audacity that we’ve come to expect from Another Soup, creators of […]
Caroline Sheen – Sondheim & So Forth – Jermyn Street Theatre
Caroline Sheen: Sondheim & So Forth at the Jermyn Street Theatre, London, as part of the London Festival of Cabaret. Star rating: Four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ Caroline Sheen has been gracing the London stage since her West End debut in Grease at the Cambridge Theatre in the late 1990s – a job that saw her cut short […]
Janie Dee – Dee-Licious, Lightful and Lovely! – Crazy Coqs
Janie Dee performs her show Dee-Licious, Lightful and Lovely! at the Crazy Coqs until 14 March. Star rating: 5 stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Last night a packed audience filled with showbiz personalities was treated to a masterclass in cabaret perfection. The multi-talented Janie Dee entertained, enthralled and enchanted her many fans with glorious singing as well as amusing […]
Mark Turnbull Sings Sondheim – Ye Olde Rose and Crown Theatre
I’m Still Here: Mark Turnbull Sings Sondheim was performed at Ye Olde Rose and Crown Theatre, London. As a member of The Stephen Sondheim Society, I can’t think of a much better way to spend a dreary Sunday afternoon than listening to a cabaret of Sondheim songs, performed by a veteran of the West End, staged […]
Janie Dee and Jason Carr – The Pheasantry
Janie Dee and Jason Carr performed their shows at The Pheasantry, London. It was little wonder that the divine Janie Dee chose the old Liza Minnelli number ‘Yes’ for her late-show cabaret at The Pheasantry as the Kander & Ebb classic encapsulates exactly the sort of trip this extraordinary actress-singer is on right now. You […]
Sutton Foster – Cafe Carlyle, New York
Sutton Foster is performing at the Café Carlyle, New York until 28 September. There aren’t many performers these days who merit the old-time appellation ‘a toast of Broadway’, but Sutton Foster is certainly one of them. Foster toiled away in four Broadway shows before her career-making Tony-winning lead performance in Thoroughly Modern Millie in 2002. […]
Criswell, Henshall, Friedman at Cadogan Hall
Jeremy Chapman previews From West End to Broadway, a trio of concerts at London’s Cadogan Hall. The glorious voice of Kim Criswell launches an August series of Thursday treats for musical theatre aficionados at the Cadogan Hall, London, on 1 August. An honorary Brit after marrying one and settling here shortly after playing the title role […]
Anne Reid at Crazy Coqs
Anne Reid In a New Key, at the Crazy Coqs, London. Electrocuted as Valerie Barlow in Coronation Street in 1971, Dinnerladied by Victoria Wood in 1998, kit off as a daring 66-year-old who beds a pre-Bond Daniel Craig in The Mother in 2003 and wooed by Derek Jacobi in last autumn’s wonderful TV series Last Tango […]
Stuart Matthew Price, a leading man to be
Stuart Matthew Price – The Roles I’ll Never Play. Reviewed at St James Theatre Studio, London. Stuart Matthew Price, who is about to turn 30, made his London stage debut exactly six years ago in the Donmar Warehouse’s UK premiere of Jason Robert Brown’s Parade, where his stand-out tenor rang out over the opening number, ‘The […]
