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Rehearsal For Murder UK Tour

Douglas Mayo25th December 201613th July 2016 News, Touring

The Classic Thriller Theatre Company has announced that it is extending the UK tour for Rehearsal For Murder. Rehearsal For Murder is one of stage and screen’s all time classic thrillers. Written by Richard Levinson and David Link, whose work included the television series Murder She Wrote, Rehearsal For Murder was a popular television movies which starred Robert Preston, Lynn Redgrave and Patrick Macnee. Playwright Alex Dennison is left heartbroken when his fiancee and leading lady Monica Welles is found dead from an apparent suicide after the opening night of her stage debut. On the anniversary of that ill-fated night, Alex assembles the same cast and crew in the same theatre, for a reading of his new play. But as the reading begins, it becomes clear that Alex believes that Monica was murdered and his new play is a devious cat-and-mouse chase to uncover her killer. The new tour will … Read more

REVIEW: Follies In Concert, Royal Albert Hall ✭✭✭

Stephen Collins21st August 201529th April 2015 Events, Reviews, West End

Follies In Concert at the Royal Albert Hall

In the case of Betty Buckley as Carlotta, the casting was inspired. Her powerful and joyful rendition of I’m Still Here stopped the show. But it was Anita Dobson’s self-deprecating turn as Stella which finally galvanised the entire company into glorious cohesion: her attack in Who’s That Woman was splendid (a gutsy belt matched her tap-dancing prowess) and she and all of the other women acquitted themselves well in bringing Andrew Wright’s clever choreography to life. The younger versions of Sally, Phyllis, Ben and Buddy were spot-on, engaging and sublime. Christine Baranski’s Phyllis was brittle, regal and immaculately stylish.