REVIEW: South Pacific, Chichester Festival Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭
Libby Purves travelled down to the Chichester Festival Theatre to catch up with Rodgers and Hammerstein’s South Pacific.
Julian Ovenden
Tickets on sale for All About Eve with Gillian Anderson and Lily James
Tickets go on sale today (27 September) for the new West End stage adaptation of classic movie All About Eve starring Gillian Anderson and Lily James at the Noel Coward Theatre.
REVIEW: Sondheim on Sondheim, Royal Festival Hall ✭✭✭✭✭
Mark Ludmon reviews the new London production of the Sondheim on Sondheim revue at the Royal Festival Hall Sondheim on Sondheim Royal Festival Hall 16 March 2018 Five stars Even the most lavish musical productions in the West End may stretch to only 20 musicians, with most having far fewer, so a one-off staging of Broadway hit Sondheim on Sondheim with the BBC Concert Orchestra was a rare opportunity to hear Stephen Sondheim’s music in all its richly orchestrated splendour. Add to this six of the best musical theatre performers around, and you have a captivating evening of Sondheim songs ranging from something familiar to something peculiar. This is a symphonic version of the Sondheim on Sondheim revue that premiered in New York City in 2010, which was immortalised in a superb cast recording. It slightly trims the original show but retains most of the video interviews and clips that reveal candid … Read more
REVIEW: The Treatment, Almeida Theatre ✭✭✭✭
The Treatment feels rather tame but, in this revival, it remains a mesmerising, entertaining dark comedy that conjures up the confusing perplexities of modern life.
REVIEW: My Night With Reg, Apollo Theatre ✭✭✭✭
Some of the performances are deliberately bigger, determinedly more overtly comic, less confrontational than they were at the Donmar. This lessens the dramatic sense of the play in unsatisfactory ways, while ostensibly appealing, presumably, to the expected middle class audiences in the West End. Some of the acting remains first-rate and the inherent power of the writing, while diminished, is far from lost. Lewis Reeves, Richard Cant and Matt Bardock are even better than they were at the Donmar
