An Evening of Jake Thackray: Stefan Bednarczyk at The Pheasantry, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ It’s always a wonderful surprise when a show is twice as good as you expected it to be and this lovely evening with the charmingly old-school Stefan Bednarczyk, despite his name a quintessential English gentleman, regaling us with the oh-so-clever work of a half-forgotten singer-songwriter was all that and more.
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The Sorrows of Satan – Brocket Hall, Hertfordshire
The Sorrows of Satan, a musical play is streaming until 9 May 2021. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ This glossy production, filmed in the grandeur of the ballroom at that stately Hertfordshire pile Brocket Hall, is a streamed version of a show that premiered at the cosy off-West End Tristran Bates […]
Luke Bateman, Michael Conley, Stefan Bednarczyk and Molly Lynch star in streaming premiere of The Sorrows of Satan
Luke Bateman, Michael Conley, Stefan Bednarczyk and Molly Lynch will star in the streaming premiere of ‘A hell of a comedy about a devil of a musical’, The Sorrows of Satan, a musical play by Luke Bateman and Michael Conley, directed by Adam Lenson. Streaming from 5-8 May 2021 and then on-demand from 9-31 May, The Sorrows […]
60 Glorious Years: I’m Still Here! – Stefan Bednarczyk – Crazy Coqs
60 Glorious Years: I’m Still Here! – Stefan Bednarczyk – live-streamed from Crazy Coqs, London. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ An hour spent with cabaret maestro Stefan Bednarczyk is always a pleasure and this man of many parts did not let us down, even though the Crazy Coqs show he put together to […]
New cabaret season launched at Above The Stag
Multi-award-winning West End star Janie Dee (Carousel, National Theatre, Hello Dolly!, Curve) will feature in conversation with actor, writer, director and radio presenter Tim McArthur this weekend as part of a new season of socially distanced cabaret at London’s Above The Stag Theatre. Featuring a mix of cabaret, musical theatre, LGBT+ poetry, comedy and drag […]
Looking Forward with Janie Dee – The Pheasantry, London
Looking Forward with Janie Dee at The Pheasantry, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ The adorable, dee-licious and absurdly talented Janie Dee doesn’t believe in letting the grass grow under her feet and she managed to slip in a couple of cabaret nights at The Pheasantry as part of her crowded […]
On Reflection: The Cast of Follies in Cabaret – Underbelly Festival
On Reflection: The Cast of Follies in Cabaret at the Underbelly Festival, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Janie Dee, who played Phyllis in the National Theatre’s stunning revival of Follies, keeps the musical theatre magic alive with her On Reflection cabaret. In this intimate hour-long cabaret in the Underbelly spiegeltent on the […]
More Coward: Stefan Bednarczyk – The Pheasantry
More Coward: Stefan Bednarczyk at The Pheasantry, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ It is 66 years since Noel Coward wrote the wickedly prophetic ‘There are Bad Times Just Around the Corner’ but in these dark Brexit days the bitingly witty words could not be more timely. The redoubtable Stefan Bednarczyk brought his […]
Tonight at 8:30 – Jermyn Street Theatre
Tonight at 8:30 continues at the Jermyn Street Theatre, London until 20 May 2018. Star rating: four stars ★★★★☆ Nothing embodies the breadth and depth of Noël Coward’s writing abilities quite like Tonight at 8:30, his cycle of ten one-act plays designed to be performed in repertory by the same company over three evenings. From the steamy heat […]
Stefan Bednarczyk – An Evening with Flanders and Swann at The Pheasantry
Stefan Bednarczyk: An Evening with Flanders and Swann at The Pheasantry, London. Star rating: five stars ★★★★★ There’s something ironic about someone called Bednarczyk performing the songs of such quintessentially British humorists as Flanders and Swann, that witty singer-songwriter duo of a bygone era unfettered by the requirement to be politically correct. But Bednarczyk is […]
The Sorrows of Satan – Tristan Bates Theatre
The Sorrows of Satan continues at the Tristan Bates Theatre, London until 25 March. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ The souls of Luke Bateman and Michael Conley were bared at the preview of their brand new musical, The Sorrows of Satan at the Tristan Bates Theatre. I am happy to report that […]
Anne Reid and Stefan Bednarczyk – Just in Time – Crazy Coqs
Anne Reid and Stefan Bednarczyk – Just in Time – Crazy Coqs, London continues until 2 May. Star rating: 4 stars ★ ★ ★ ★ The third London Festival of Cabaret – Celebrating Song – opens at the Crazy Coqs with a long overdue tribute to the writing skills of American lyricists Betty Comden and Adolph Green. Although their names may not be household […]
Noel Coward’s Christmas Spirits – St James Studio
Noel Coward’s Christmas Spirits continues at the St James Studio, London until 23 December. It’s probably almost cultural heresy to say so, but any time the name Noel Coward crops up, the first image that pops into my mind is of the great man playing master criminal and prison inmate Mister Bridger in the classic […]
Stefan Bednarczyk Sings Coward – Crazy Coqs
Stefan Bednarczyk: Stefan Sings Coward at the Crazy Coqs, London, continues until 19 July. Can there be a better interpreter of Noel Coward operating in the UK – in the world – than Stefan Bednarczyk? For those in the know, such as Coward’s biographer, the late Sheridan Morley, he was the preferred interpreter of choice. This […]
Stefan Bednarczyk returns to Crazy Coqs with Noel Coward cabaret
Described as ‘one of the most important interpreters of Coward that we have’, Stefan Bednarczyk returns to the Crazy Coqs this week with his Noel Coward show (concentrating on Coward during the war and post-war years, but also including Coward’s works from the 1920s and ’30s as well as some of his lesser-known songs). There […]
