Since a Broadway run, starting in 1966, and the successful movie starring Liza Minnelli, Cabaret has won 8 Oscars, 7 BAFTAs and 13 Tonys. Bill Kenwright takes the reigns for this relaunch of the classic Kandar and Ebb musical turning 1931 Berlin in to a very dark and sexual haven. The run at The Mayflower Theatre is immediately prior…
Alex Nee chats to David Tully about his time with the show he sums up as “Rage, love and guy-liner”
David Tully reviews the latest London revival of the Eugene O’Neill classic starring David Suchet and Laurie Metcalf
Smash-hit Broadway musical announces cast ahead of Southampton premiere
David Tully interviews Avenue Q’s leading lady Katharine Moraz.
I’m jovially stirring a steaming pan of what can only be described as green lentil mush, noting how brilliantly domesticated I’m being, while humming tunes from the (very few) musicals I know. “What can it be?!” I think to myself as I pack 3 tupperwares, 4 smoothies and a packet of raisin and hazelnut Frusli…
Fresh from a run on London’s West End, Legally Blonde the Musical – based on the film of the same name – has started a tour of the UK.
Everyone knows the story of Oliver so going to see the musical led not only to high expectations but also led to seeing how Lionel Bart‘s original story would be transformed onto the stage by Cameron Mackintosh. Would it bring anything new and exciting to the narrative? Or would it prove to be another bland…
Josie Rourke begins her stint as artistic director at the Donmar Warehouse with late Restoration comedy from 1706, The Recruiting Officer by George Farquhar. The set is simple, yet effective. The stage is lit with hundreds of candles, presenting the notion of a simple life, but not a bad one. As audience members took to their seats, onstage…
Jon Richardson is very much a comedian who you may have heard of, but who is not yet an A-Lister on the level of the Michael McIntyres or the Jimmy Carrs. He is however, responsible for some incredibly dry humour on the shows Eight Out Of Ten Cats and Stand Up For The Week, amongst…
‘I tried to focus on the bits I felt I hadn’t seen in productions before – the play’s examination of dreams, of time, of coincidence and chance’ says Robert Icke, the director of Headlong Theatre’s new production of Shakespeare’s famous but ‘not well-known’ Romeo and Juliet. Icke whisks the audience into the glass and steel…
Solent University student Alec Dent won last night’s Southampton Chortle Student Comedian Competition heat held at Glen Bar in the Glen Eyre student halls of residence. Sam Jenkins-Shaw of Southampton University also performed in the heats as well as Solent students Andy Field, Sam Marrow, Kieran Murphy and Darryl Edge. Clips of all the participant’s sets can…
It is ironic that prior to the BBC iPlayer recording of the ‘Wheelchair’ episode of the second series of Radio 4’s Richard Herring’s Objective runs an advert for Life’s Too Short. For Richard Herring manages to actually achieve what Ricky Gervais claims to do — well-crafted, intelligent comedy on the subject of disability, as opposed…
Pocket G&S wow in their latest performance, as Kirsty Hough discovers