REVIEW: Fox Hunting, Courtyard Theatre ✭✭✭
Julian Eaves reviews David Alade’s Fox Hunting now playing at the Courtyard Theatre.
Julian Eaves reviews David Alade’s Fox Hunting now playing at the Courtyard Theatre.
Julian Eaves reviews Oscar Wilde’s An Ideal Husband starring Edward Fox, Freddie Fox and Frances Barber now playing at the Vaudeville Theatre.
Julian Eaves reviews Tomorrow At Noon, three one act plays responding to Tonight at 8.30 now playing at Jermyn Street Theatre.
Kathleen Turner: Finding My Voice The Other Palace, Friday 20th April 2018 5 Stars Tour details This is a terrific evening in the theatre, with a clutch of songs old and new given a good old working-over by one of the best actresses in the business, and – this is the clincher – couched in some of the cleverest, sassiest repartee you are going to hear in a while. The first two numbers, ‘Where or When’ and ‘Let’s Fall In Love’, introduce us to the peculiarly dark and heavy qualities of Turner’s singing voice, but it is when her narration kicks in before the much looser and amiable ‘Since I Fell For You’ that we really click. With just a trim trio to support her, and director Andy Gale’s thoughtful pacing and direction to shape the evening, Turner relies only on a black blouse and trousers to frame her masterful repertoire of … Read more
Julian Eaves reviews Noel Coward’s Tonight at 8.30 now playing at London’s Jermyn Street Theatre.
As a work in its own right, if you ever wanted to know why it was such a colossal and damaging failure the first time around, then this version of Twang! provides abundant clues.
And The World Goes Round is a show that makes you not only want to hear more of these performers – and, please, let us! – but also directs right back to where all the stuff came from and delve into the creative genius of two of the very greatest of Broadways legends: Kander and Ebb. Terrific.
One of the more exciting developments this month is surely the arrival on our shores of this splendid new revue-like song-cycle Island Song by the brilliantly talented American writing team of Sam Carner (words) and Derek Gregor (music).