Thursday, January 18, 2018
There's no doubt it feels quite strange to be seeing a ballet set at Christmas time in the middle of January. It's a similar feeling to passing a house with a tree still up in the living roo…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:19AMSaturday, January 13, 2018
The boys are back. Based on an imaginary night at the Sands Hotel, the three musical legends of Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr. come together to perform a show featuring bante…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:41PMThursday, January 11, 2018
It would be disingenuous to call Cirque Du Soleil simply a circus. The Canadian performance group are world famous and synonymous with incredible feats of physical strength and endurance. Si…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:25AMMonday, January 8, 2018
What would you do if someone or something was watching you Adapted from the H.G. Well's short story, The Crystal Egg Live tells the story of Charley Wace, taken in by his eccentric Uncle Cav…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:32AMSunday, December 24, 2017
This Christmas there seem to be more productions of Dickens' festive tale than ever. This is the fourth revival of Antic Disposition's musical production of A Christmas Carol. Its return to …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:28AMSaturday, December 16, 2017
With the success of last year's fantastical take on The Wind in the Willows, Kingston's Rose Theatre looks to another classic this year with Alice in Winterland, a new take on Lewis Carroll'…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:47AMFriday, December 15, 2017
To be frank, Christmas has not begun until you have seen Christopher Biggins sashaying across a stage to the Strictly Come Dancing theme tune in a fuschia pink fringed dress with giant red f…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:59AMThursday, December 14, 2017
The beautiful story of Clara and her enchanted Nutcracker doll is as much a part of Christmas as carols and novelty jumpers. The pair discover a magical world where they battle with the Mous…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:06AMTuesday, December 12, 2017
Of all of Bernard Shaw's wonderful plays, it seems a brave and slightly odd choice for the Orange Tree theatre to choose to revive Misalliance. When the play premiered in 1910, it was hated …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:35AMThursday, November 30, 2017
There are many reasons why Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol has been adapted endlessly. A cautionary tale of debt, ghosts, meanness of spirit and salvation set in a snowy Victorian Christm…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:24AMSunday, November 19, 2017
After a season that saw some triumphant returns of classic operas, such as the magnificent revival Jonathan Miller's The Barber of Seville, the ENO has taken another gamble on bringing a bra…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:49AMWednesday, November 15, 2017
The British appetite for thrillers is seemingly unquenchable. Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap has now been running for 65 years in London and detective and murder mystery stories are standar…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:41AMSaturday, November 11, 2017
Daphne du Maurier is the master of Cornish gothic storytelling and ghostly intrigue. Jamaica Inn is her 1936 novel a haunting tale set in Cornwall in the 1800s. Following the death of her mo…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:03PMThursday, November 9, 2017
With the release of the Christmas advert from Marks And Spencer, we can all rest assured that the festive season is drawing ever near. Sam Holcroft's well received play, Rules For Living, ge…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:39PMTuesday, November 7, 2017
A bereaved couple meet after a long separation. Stilted pleasantries give way to raw accusations and brutal truths. It would be very easy for Poison to be a melodramatic hour and twenty minu…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:30AMTuesday, October 24, 2017
There is always a risk in seemingly simple dramatic two-handers. Where there are no visual tricks, no impressive set changes or sparkling costumes, the whole play relies on the chemistry and…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:07AMWednesday, October 18, 2017
Immersive theatre is a popular and fashionable way of presenting work where the audience are not passive observers, but are involved and become part of the production. After last year's insp…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:36PMThursday, October 12, 2017
After receiving rave reviews during its run at Sheffield's Crucible Theatre, new musical Everyone's Talking About Jamie is making the final preparations for its transfer to the Apollo Theatr…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:12AMAdam Spreadbury-Maher has a long history with the King's Head Theatre. As its Artistic Director and co-founder of OperaUpClose, he has overseen many successful opera productions, including T…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:23AMSunday, October 8, 2017
It is said that Rossini wrote his most famous opera, The Barber of Seville, in three weeks, but few opere buffe remain as fresh and funny as this one. The well known plot of cunning barber F…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:54AMTuesday, October 3, 2017
Playwright Gore Vidal was well placed to have in depth knowledge of what goes on behind the scenes in US politics. After all, his mother was the daughter of a Democratic senator and his fath…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:12AMWednesday, September 27, 2017
Amid the horrors of the First World War, The Wipers Times is the unlikely, but true, story of when two officers found a printing press in the bombed out remains of Ypres Wipers was the soldi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:45AMWednesday, September 6, 2017
Wait Until Dark first opened on Broadway in 1966, but many know it from the 1967 Hollywood film, where the lead role of Susy went to Audrey Hepburn, who was nominated for an Academy Award an…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:47AMWednesday, August 30, 2017
The Railway Children holds a special place in Britain's heart E Nesbit's well-loved tale was first published in 1905, but most of us know it from Lionel Jeffries' iconic 1970 film, which als…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:36AMSaturday, August 12, 2017
There is a profound darkness to Abigail Hood's new play, Dangling, both in look and in content. A bleak depiction of sexual abuse, mental illness and disturbing family secrets, it looks at s…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:33AMMonday, July 24, 2017
There is much about Charles Dickens' Classic tale Oliver Twist to recommend it to children the comic pomposity of Mr Bumble, the sinister actions of Fagin, the cheekiness of the Artful Dodge…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:04AMFriday, July 14, 2017
How far would you go to have a baby What and who would you overlook to make it happen Vivienne Franzmann has never shied away from controversial subjects in her plays. The 2012, critically a…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:42AMTuesday, June 13, 2017
Before the world had an understanding of the word feminism, Charlotte Bronte was delivering a masterpiece tutorial in female independence and emancipation. Jane Eyre demonstrates that being …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:24AMWednesday, June 7, 2017
Northern Ballet has a reputation for pioneering contemporary, narrative ballet, but this may be its most challenging subject to date. The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas has been a book and later…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:12AMThursday, May 25, 2017
An Octoroon is a person who has one eighth black heritage. In 1850s Louisiana, that meant they are automatically unclean and, ultimately, a slave. Branden Jacobs-Jenkins radically reimagines…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:36AMWednesday, May 17, 2017
Since it's first publication as a comic strip in 1938, The Addams Family has seen many incarnations, but did not become a musical until it launched on Broadway in 2010. Now the quirky comedy…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:24AM 
