It might just be the hottest show in heaven or hell right now as the Broadway production of Hadestown prepares to transfer to London. The show will start previews on February 10 ahead of the official opening on February 21. This week, excited fans and total newbies saw the show debut the track Wait For … Read more
Look, I don’t give one star lightly. But to charge audiences £135 for barely 70 minutes (no interval) of incompetent plotting, dire dialogue, poor characterisation and some acting that wouldn’t look out of place on a bad 1960s sitcom is enough to make the entire Theatreland give up the ghost. I must stress that certain … Read more
In a transcendent evening at the iconic Royal Albert Hall in London, the convergence of cinematic brilliance and orchestral grandeur took centre stage. The juxtaposition of a film about making it in the showbiz world opening at a legendary venue usually reserved for the most successful acts created a meta moment of sheer brilliance. Despite … Read more
Fairy tales by the brothers Grimm inspire hugely enjoyable Christmas productions at both Covent Garden theatres, and there is nothing grim about them, apart from the usual grisly ends of the wolf in Red Riding Hood and the cannibalistic witch in Hansel and Gretel. Wolf, Witch, Giant, Fairy, at the Linbury Theatre, downstairs from the … Read more
David Tennant and Cush Jumbo’s glorious interpretations of Macbeth and his wife should be the headline grabbers but it is director Max Webster whose ground-breaking production of The Bard’s great Scottish tragedy might have just changed theatre forever. It certainly blew every other Shakespeare adaptation I’ve seen this year out of the cauldron. Staring at … Read more
