REVIEW: Fortune’s Fool, Old Vic Theatre ✭✭
The trouble is that none of it is co-ordinated or controlled or channelled in a particular direction, with the result that nothing comes of anything.
The trouble is that none of it is co-ordinated or controlled or channelled in a particular direction, with the result that nothing comes of anything.
In a week when the “other” (Sondheim) revue, Putting It Together, closed at the St James’ Theatre after a terrific run, this childish and facile production pales into insignificance.
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance explodes on to the stage at the Park Theatre this year.
Glass-Eye Theatre bring their exciting production of The City and Iris to The Pleasance Theatre from Thursday 6 – Saturday 8 March at 8.00pm. The City and Iris is a physical, visual and comic feast and will be the debut for the company at the venue. The action centres around Iris (played by Julia Correa) while ‘The City’ is performed by a talented chorus of five actors. Without a set, the ensemble create Iris’s world themselves. Ingeniously contorting their bodies and a length of red rope, they become the creaky wardrobe in Iris’s bedroom, the books in the library and the lifelike trees on her walk to work. The ensemble also create all sound effects, from Iris’s radio alarm clock to her rattling commuter train, as well as a ‘soundtrack’ in the form of a recurring and haunting four part harmony. Iris’s every day is a haze of grey, and today … Read more
It was announced today that Elton John’s Rocket Pictures has acquired the rights to Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat, which it intends to produce as an animated film.
Production images from Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Stephen Ward currently playing at the Aldwych Theatre.
Following a successful initial season, hit comedy Jeeves and Wooster in Perfect Nonsense has now extended it’s run at the Duke Of York’s Theatre until 20 September 2014 starring Robert Webb.
Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale are working with Universal Stage Productions (Wicked and Billy Elliot), London-based producer Colin Ingram (Ghost – The Musical) and Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Entertainment to develop a stage musical version of their film Back to the Future.