REVIEW: Falling Stars, Union Theatre via StreamTheatre ✭✭✭✭
Mark Ludmon reviews the online musical revue, Falling Stars, featuring Peter Polycarpou and Sally Ann Triplett at London’s Union Theatre
Peter Polycarpou
Peter Polycarpou joins cast of Man Of La Mancha at London Coliseum
Peter Polycarpou has been cast as Sancho Panza alongside Kelsey Grammer in Man Of La Mancha at the London Coliseum.
REVIEW: Working, London Cast Recording 2018 ✭✭✭✭
This new cast album is of such a high standard that there will doubtless be many new productions of Working around the globe as a result of this recording. It’s a first class calling card for this undervalued gem of a show.
REVIEW: Oslo, National Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭
Under director Bartlett Sher, Oslo’s running time of three hours including interval zips along with barely a lull in the action.
Toby Stephens to star in Oslo at National Theatre and in West End
Toby Stephens is to star in the Lincoln Centre’s Critically acclaimed Tony Award-winning production of Oslo at National Theatre and Harold Pinter Theatre.
REVIEW: Working, Southwark Playhouse ✭✭✭✭
Julian Eaves reviews Working at Southwark Playhouse “You’re going to love the songs. You will remember many of them – and with affection.”
Rufus Hound Hosts Twelve Musical Theatre Stars At Actor’s Church
Rufus Hound will host a charitable concert on the Sunday before Christmas (18 December 2016) at The Actor’s Church in Covent Garden featuring an incredible line up of musical theatre stars. The concert will be held in aid of Children with Cancer UK. Rufus Hound will be joined by Ramin Karimloo, Cassidy Janson, Ben Forster, Emma Kingston, Peter Polycarpou, Sandra Marvin, Jordan Shaw, Emmanuel Kojo, Carole Stennett, Norman Bowman, and Chris Johnson. The concert will also feature the Musical Theatre Masterclass Choir – a group of talented students from the London performing arts school, run by Michael Xavier. Michael says: “I am so grateful to these incredible musical theatre stars who are performing in this very special Christmas concert. They are already so busy, starring in hit west end shows like Phantom of the Opera, Murder Ballad, Motown, The Bodyguard, In the Heights, Beautiful and Stepping out. It’s incredibly generous … Read more
REVIEW: Follies In Concert, 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.
