REVIEW: The Rink, Southwark Playhouse ✭✭✭✭✭
Douglas Mayo reviews Kander and Ebb’s The Rink starring Caroline O’Connor and Gemma Sutton now playing at Southwark Playhouse.
Adam Lenson
FIRST LOOK: Rehearsals for Kander and Ebb’s The Rink at Southwark Playhouse
Check out these great rehearsal photos from the rehearsal rooms of Kander and Ebb’s The Rink starring Caroline O’Connor and Gemma Sutton at the Southwark Playhouse. Kander and Ebb’s musical The Rink gets its first London revival in 20 years at Southwark Playhouse from 25 May 201 The Rink stars Caroline O’Connor as Anna and Gemma Sutton as Angel, the cast also includes Stewart Clarke as Dino, Ross Dawes as Lino, Michael Lin as Lucky, Elander Moore as Benny, Ben Redfern as Lenny and Jason Winter as Tony. Anna, an Italian housewife who runs a roller-skating rink on the Eastern seaboard, is about to sell it to developers until her estranged daughter, Angel, returns after a long absence, hoping to save the rink and patch things up with her mother. The Rink is directed by Adam Lenson with choreography by Fabian Aloise and is produced by Jack Maple and Brian … Read more
UPCOMING: Crazytown: The World Of Ryan Scott Oliver
Julian Eaves takes a look at Crazytown : The World of Ryan Scott Oliver which is being presented at The Other Palace Studio on Monday 26 March 2018. There’s a welcome return to London coming up for the multi-talented Ryan Scott Oliver, one of the most original – and accomplished – musical theatre voices in New York. Having made a sensational splash in this building last year in the debut staging of ‘35MM: A Musical Exhibition‘, and a kind of love-letter to his husband-to-be, the photographer Matthew Murphy: in fact, it remains his one non-commissioned work; everything he has done has been to order. Anyway, the same team that made that remarkable show such a hit – director Adam Lenson and MD Joe Bunker – have gone the whole hog and turned themselves into producers as well, in order to ensure that this show gets before the public. And what … Read more
REVIEW: Lock and Key, The Vaults ✭✭✭
As graduates of Stratford East Barlow and Smith have much to celebrate and we have much to look forward to from them. They are going places.
REVIEW: 35MM A Musical Exhibition, The Other Palace ✭✭✭✭✭
The score does not just reflects them, however, but much more ingeniously it also reflects the conventional tropes and gestures of musical theatre
REVIEW: Superhero, Southwark Playhouse ✭✭✭✭✭
I am going to give nothing away about the ‘plot’, because it’s just so deliciously ingenious and I don’t want to rob you of a single moment’s pleasure
REVIEW: The Quentin Dentin Show, Tristan Bates Theatre ✭✭✭✭
The songs in The Quentin Dentin Show make up the best, and I mean the best new score that British musical theatre has produced in certainly the past few years. Yes, you heard me right. It’s a stonker.
REVIEW: Whisper House, The Other Palace ✭✭✭
Overall, Whisper House is an interesting experiment, a novel departure from the ‘norms’ of musical theatre. If it doesn’t quite fulfill its ambitions, well, that’s not the worse thing in the world, is it?
