Zorro continues at the Charing Cross Theatre, London until 28 May 2022. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ Johnston McCulley’s pulp hero Zorro, the masked alias of Don Diego de la Vega who fights for justice in the Pueblo of Los Angeles in early 19th century Alta California, made his first appearance in […]
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New dates for Zorro The Musical at Charing Cross Theatre
Christian Durham’s innovative new production of Zorro The Musical will begin previews at Charing Cross Theatre on 2 April 2022 ahead of an opening night on 12 April. Presented by Katy Lipson for Aria Entertainment and John Gertz, the immersive actor-musician production which had played just two previews at Manchester’s Hope Mill Theatre before the […]
Re-imagined Zorro The Musical to play the Charing Cross Theatre in early 2022
Christian Durham’s innovative new production of Zorro The Musical will begin previews at Charing Cross Theatre in March 2022, two years after its debut run was cut short by the pandemic. Presented by Katy Lipson for Aria Entertainment and John Gertz, the immersive actor/musician production which had played just two previews at Manchester’s Hope Mill […]
Love Story anniversary concert moved to September
The 10th anniversary concert performance of the Chichester Festival Theatre production of Love Story has been postponed until 20 September 2020 as the country battles the coronavirus. Originally scheduled to play London’s Cadogan Hall on 17 May, Love Story: 10th Anniversary Concert features original cast members Michael D. Xavier, Emma Williams and Peter Polycarpou. Xavier (Sunset […]
Remembering Stephen Clark – playwright, librettist and lyricist
Remembering Stephen Clark (2 February 1961 to 15 October 2016). Stephen Clark, the award-winning playwright, librettist and lyricist, has died at the all too early age of 55. Michael Darvell looks back at a career tragically cut short, but one that remained full of promise… Like his hero Stephen Sondheim, Stephen Clark seems to have had a […]
Stephen Clark, the award-winning lyricist and playwright, has died
Composer Howard Goodall has paid tribute to his friend, the award-winning lyricist, librettist and playwright Stephen Clark, who died at the weekend at the age of 55. Clark who was inspired to work in musical theatre after studying with Stephen Sondheim at Oxford University, wrote the book and lyrics for Goodall’s Love Story which was […]
Love Story – Union Theatre
Love Story continues at the Union Theatre, London until 25 October. The second of the Union Theatre’s trilogy of Howard Goodall musicals is perhaps his most well-known. Based on Erich Segal’s novel and film, Love Story premiered in Chichester in 2010 before a brief West End run, but the small, intimate scale of the story feels […]
Love Story – Octagon Theatre, Bolton
Love Story continues at the Octagon Theatre, Bolton until 12 July. “What can you say, about a girl, a 25-year-old girl, who died?” A lyric that comes at the end of the very first song in Stephen Clark and Howard Goodall’s blisteringly powerful musical adaptation of Erich Segal’s novel Love Story and in answer to the question asked – […]
