British actress Sally Ann Triplett will step in to play Mrs Lovett alongside Thom Sesma’s Demon Barber in the hit immersive Off-Broadway production of Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd. The new partners in grisly crime will take over from Hugh Panaro and Carolee Carmello in the acclaimed version of the hit show at the Barrow Street […]
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Sweeney Todd – does size matter?
In the battle of the large and small scale productions of Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler’s Sweeney Todd (currently playing in London), which one produces the ultimate, dramatic knockout punch? The star-studded US transfer at the ENO or Tooting Arts Club’s intensely intimate staging in a pop-up pie shop in Shaftesbury Avenue? Craig Glenday investigates… Londoners are currently being treated […]
Sweeney Todd – Harrington’s Pie & Mash Shop, Shaftesbury Avenue
Sweeney Todd continues at Harrington’s Pie & Mash Shop, Shaftesbury Avenue, London until 30 May. Star rating: 5 stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ It’s cramped, it’s hot and it’s airless, but this new production of Sweeney Todd might just be the best version you’ll ever experience. And ‘experience’ is definitely the word, as this teeny-tiny Todd has its actors […]
Tooting Arts Club Sweeney Todd staged in pop-up pie shop on Shaftesbury Avenue
By special arrangement with Cameron Mackintosh, Tooting Arts Club’s acclaimed production of Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler’s Sweeney Todd is to move to a new home on Shaftesbury Avenue this spring whilst Harrington’s Pie and Mash Shop undergoes refurbishment. The pop-up pie shop success story started last October when Tooting Arts offered up lovelorn Mrs Lovett’s infamous pies in a grisly, site-specific […]
Sweeney Todd – Harrington’s pie-and-mash shop, Tooting
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street continues at Harrington’s pie-and-mash shop in Tooting, London, until 29 November. What a remarkable evening – Stephen’s Sondheim’s masterpiece Sweeney Todd in a pie shop in Tooting. Something to tell the grandchildren, a one-off never to be forgotten. Totally brilliant too. Not only a brilliant piece of PR by the Tooting […]
Tooting Arts Club stages Sweeney Todd in London’s oldest pie shop
Tooting Arts Club is planning an intimate staging of Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler’s Sweeney Todd in London’s oldest pie and mash shop from 21 October to 29 November (press night is 27 October). Audiences will be invited to congregate at Anton’s barber shop across the road before being shown through to Harrington’s Pie and Mash Shop (originally opened […]
