With its tidy ending and compact narrative, The Knowledge is satisfying enough, but capable of so much more than is ever delivered.
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Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Woman In White to be revived at Charing Cross Theatre
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Tony and Olivier Award-nominated musical The Woman In White is to recieve its first ever revival at London’s Charing Cross Theatre directed by Thom Southerland. Tickets are now on sale. The Woman in White recieved its West End premiere in 2004 at the Palace Theatre. Now Andrew Lloyd Webber and David Zippel […]
REVIEW: Death Takes A Holiday, Charing Cross Theatre ✭✭✭✭
Maury Yeston’s magnificent score for Death Takes A Holiday – one of the finest in London right now – is a glory not to be missed in this European premiere of one of his more extraordinary creations.
REVIEW: Sinbad The Sailor, Theatre Royal Stratford East ✭✭✭
Some people attending probably only ever go to the theatre to see the Christmas panto, and this certainly doesn’t disappoint. Some attending may even by inspired to go and read up on the beautiful stories whence the title figure springs. And some will merely be grateful that this provides two and a half hours in […]
REVIEW: Ragtime, Charing Cross Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭
The show has been seen in London several times recently, and it is clearly a work that repays revisitation, and reinterpretation. I will certainly be back to see this version again.
REVIEW: Allegro, Southwark Playhouse ✭✭✭✭
Thom Sutherland’s production of Allegro is a definite success, putting a positive gloss on a perhaps unfairly maligned play. It is intelligently directed, perfectly sung and well acted – an entertaining slice of Americana in SE1 .
REVIEW: The Toxic Avenger, Southwark Playhouse ✭✭✭✭✭
The Toxic Avenger Southwark Playhouse 26 April 2016 5 Stars Book Now “There’s a place between heaven and hell, Don’t need a map, just follow the smell, A place filled with filthy air, A place full of dark despair, A place you have no prayer, A place called New Jersey” So begins, two hours of […]
Casting Announced For European Premiere Of Grey Gardens
Final casting has been announced today for the European premiere of Grey Gardens the musical which will play at the Southwark Playhouse from Saturday 2 January – Saturday 6 February 2016. The musical Grey Gardens is based on the iconic documentary, telling real life rise and fall of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis’s aunt and cousin, Edith […]