Pippin to be revived at Charing Cross Theatre from 30 June
Steven Dexter’s re-imagining of Stephen Schwartz’s award-winning musical Pippin comes to the Charing Cross Theatre.
Steven Dexter
REVIEW: Closer To Heaven, Above The Stag Theatre London ✭✭✭✭
Julian Eaves reviews Closer to Heaven, a musical by Jonathan Harvery and The Pet Shop Boys now playing at Above The Stag.
REVIEW: Fanny and Stella, Above The Stag Theatre ✭✭✭✭
Mark Ludmon reviews Fanny and Stella – The Shocking True Story by Glenn Chandler now playing at Above The Stag Theatre, Vauxhall.
REVIEW: Beautiful Thing, Above The Stag ✭✭✭✭
Julian Eaves reviews Jonathan Harvey’s Beautiful Thing at Above The Stag’s newly opened Vauxhall venue.
REVIEW: Fanny and Stella, Above The Stag ✭✭✭✭
Gay themed theatre can be hit and miss at the best of times but Chandler, Miller, Dexter and Todd have fashioned an evening that could well break free of its LGBT base and find a wider audience.
Fanny And Stella at Above The Stag
Daring to be different may well be considered acceptable in modern times but spare a thought for Ernest Boulton and Frederick Park, two cross dressers in Victorian England. Showy and theatrical on and off the stage, which they so loved, Fanny and Stella were arrested at The Strand Theatre in 1870. They appeared in court next morning still in their evening gowns, and the trial for homosexual offences of this judge’s son and a bank clerk was the sensation of the age, especially when Boulton’s respectable and accepting mother, Mary Ann, took the stand. Their ultimate acquittal is all the more fascinating when compared to Oscar Wilde’s imprisonment less than 30 years later. Fanny and Stella: The Shocking True Story makes it’s debut at the Above The Stage Theatre, London’s only full time professional LGBT theatre on 13 May running until June 14,2015. This new play with original music has … Read more
REVIEW: Altar Boyz, Greenwich Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭
This is high octane entertainment, a 90 minute rollercoaster of silliness with heart, amazing talent and enough boy-band clichés to put Take That, Westlife and every other boy-band for that matter to shame.
Meet The Altar Boyz
Hallelujah! Spread the good news, as the five boyz who will make the band lineup for the UK Premiere of Alater Boyz have today been revealed! Playing band members Matthew, Mark, Luke, Juan and Abraham will be Liam Doyle, Jonny Fines, Jamie-Ray Hartshorne, Faisal Khodabukus and Alex Jordan-Mills. Liam Doyle is currently starring as Fiyero in Wicked (UK Tour). Other recent credits include Link Larkin in Hairspray (UK Tour) and Troy in High School Musical. Jonny Fines credits include Lift (Soho Theatre), Avenue Q (UK Tour) and The Sound of Music (UK Tour). Jamie-Ray Hartshorne has appeared in the premiere of new musical The Prodigals (Belgrade Theatre) and The History Boys (National Theatre). Faisal Khodabukus recent credits include I Cant Sing (London Palladium), Dirty Dancing (UK Tour) and La Cage Aux Folles (Playhouse Theatre). Alex Jordan-Mills played Billy in the 2013 revival of Taboo (Brixton Clubhouse), and most recently played … Read more
