CRITIC’S CHOICE: Gary Stringer selects his theatre highlights for 2019
Our newest critic on the BritishTheatre.com team, Gary Stringer, selects his theatre highlights for 2019.
Sweet Charity
REVIEW: Sweet Charity, Donmar Warehouse ✭✭✭✭✭
Mark Ludmon reviews Josie Rourke’s production of Sweet Charity now playing the Donmar Warehouse, London.
FIRST LOOK: Sweet Charity at the Donmar Warehouse
Take a look at Johan Persson’s first look production photos of Josie Rourke’s production of Sweet Charity at the Donmar Warehouse.
Donmar’s Sweet Charity to feature revolving guests as Daddy Brubeck
The Donmar Warehouse today announces initial casting for the role Daddy Brubeck in Josie Rourke’s production of Sweet Charity with multiple guest actors will play the role of Daddy Brubeck.
Regional UK Theatre looking forward 2018
Mark Ludmon examines the year ahead for regional theatre in 2018. Bolton girl Maxine Peake has made her mark on TV and the London stage but she returns to her roots with her second play, Queens of the Coal Age. Based on the true story of four women in Lancashire during the miners’ strike in the 1980s, it will be at the Royal Exchange in Manchester from 28 June to 21 July. Also at the Royal Exchange, Maxine Peake will star in Sarah Frankcom’s new production of Beckett’s Happy Days from 25 May to 23 June. Other highlights coming up at the Royal Exchange include Julie Hesmondhalgh in Kendall Feaver’s new play The Almighty Sometimes and April De Angelis’s new adaptation of Frankenstein. A new production of Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard directed by Michael Boyd, the former artistic director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, will come to the Royal Exchange … Read more
Top 100 Greatest Musicals Results: 90 – 81
Welcome to our second instalment of votes from our Top 100 Greatest Musicals of all time poll. There are a few new entries and some bona fide classics in this part of the list. Congratulations to all those who are listed in our roll call of truly great musicals. Did your favourites make the Top 100? Don’t forget to let us know your thoughts in the Comments section below. 90. Sweet Charity One of the first Fellini movies to be adapted as a musical, Sweet Charity brought together some of the greatest musical theatre talent of all time, starting with music by Cy Coleman, lyrics by Dorothy Fields and book by Neil Simon. Sweet Charity was directed and choreographed by Bob Fosse and starred his then wife Gwen Verdon. The show was nominated for 9 Tony Awards and is well know for showstoppers including Big Spender, If My Friends Could … Read more
