Friday, May 10, 2019
Children are just revolting aren't they They're snivelling maggots that need discipline, discipline and more discipline. Agatha Trunchbull's teaching mantra may not fill most with hope but i…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:42AMSaturday, May 4, 2019
'It's your pub' says Winston, about the Three Kings Barber shop in London. The African barbers at the shop don't drink, so the barber shop has become the hub of the community. It's the place…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:34AMWednesday, April 24, 2019
It's a sensible time to be tackling Timberlake Wertenbaker's modern classic Our Country's Good. The role of theatre in society is ripe for the examination, as cuts bite arts institutions and…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:38AMFriday, March 1, 2019
It's fitting that the once industrial space of the Tobacco Factory is now the dystopian setting for the latest outing of the Factory Company - a gender-bending A Midsummer Night's Dream.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:24AMWednesday, February 27, 2019
There's something undeniably irrepressible about Kinky Boots - it's a fully sequined, unabashed romp through a true ish story of a shoe factory threatened with closure until a radical idea t…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:24AMFriday, January 25, 2019
'Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people' writes Angela Carter in her 1992 book Wise Children and that is the starting point for Emma Rice's furiously fast adaptation in this, the fir…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:48AMSaturday, January 12, 2019
Having the entire Motown back catalogue to work with must be a dream starting point for any jukebox musical. There are decades worth of hit after hit to cram in. And cram them in Motown The …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:21AMThursday, December 13, 2018
'Alright me babbers' is the shrill cry from the Ugly Sisters at this year's panto offering from the Bristol Hippodrome. The local references are lapped up by a fervent audience who are ready…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:00AMWednesday, December 5, 2018
This Christmas, instead of merely treading the boards at Tobacco Factory Theatres, the actors are treading in between the boards in a delightful adaptation of Mary Norton's The Borrowers, a …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:07AMTuesday, November 13, 2018
'Some would say change is inevitable' and nowhere more so than Clybourne Park, a street in Chicago in the 1950s where the first blackfamily are about to move in.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:33AMThursday, November 1, 2018
Jukebox musicals are tricky things to get right. Especially if the artist concerned hasn't had a particularly eventful career. Thankfully, The Four Seasons at the centre of Jersey Boys have …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:33AMThursday, September 6, 2018
If people really do have layers, then Yasmina Reza's God Of Carnage is 80 minutes of stripping them away. Removing the layers of politeness and civility one by one until you're left with the…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:18AMSaturday, May 19, 2018
As one of the final so called mega-musicals of the 1980s, Miss Saigon could be forgiven if it felt a little dated by 2018. Thankfully, there's not one bit of tiredness about this re-booted v…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:42AMWednesday, April 25, 2018
There's an old rocking chair with a threadbare cushion in the corner of small living room near Brooklyn Bridge, New York. In it sits Eddie Carbone, our tragic hero, reading the paper. He sme…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:42AMWednesday, April 18, 2018
Pop music and musicals make good bedfellows for two main reasons. Firstly, pop music has a kind of duality - a song can mean entirely different things in different contexts. Secondly, pop mu…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:34AMThursday, April 5, 2018
The song-writing partnership of Carole King and Gerry Goffin was such a formidable force in the sixties that even Lennon and McCartney often spoke about wanting to emulate them. It's with th…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:35AMMonday, April 2, 2018
In our new series, BroadwayWorld UK writers nominate the shows they'd love to see revived
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:00AMTuesday, March 20, 2018
A looming European referendum, a Labour party internally divided and drastic spending cuts. You could be forgiven for thinking that James Graham's This House is set just a few years ago. In …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:22AMWednesday, March 14, 2018
Charting the rise of Cilla Black's pop career is tough ask for a musical. She may have been an entertainer of superlative quality, but she lacks the back catalogue that is the engine room of…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:12AMFriday, March 9, 2018
The Bristol Old Vic has opened it's 'Year of Change' in spectacular fashion in this riveting new translation of Chekhov's final play The Cherry Orchard.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:10AMTuesday, March 6, 2018
Setting a musical in 1960s Baltimore against a backdrop of increasing racial tension between white and black American's doesn't exactly scream feelgood musical. Yet Hairspray manages to achi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:35AMWednesday, February 28, 2018
There were more than a few raised eyebrows when the all new Factory Company from Tobacco Factory Theatres announced it's first play would be a Shakespeare. Having moved the acclaimed Shakesp…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:48AMWednesday, February 7, 2018
Families are tricky things. They have the capacity to love and frustrate us like no one else. It is little wonder they provide such a rich vein for dramatists. In Andrew Bovell's Things I Kn…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:39AMThursday, February 1, 2018
Tim Wright reflects on drama schools charging fees for auditions
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:15AMTuesday, January 30, 2018
I loved Hamilton when I saw it. I paid 57.50 for a seat in the middle of the top tier of the newly refurbed Victoria Palace Theatre. It was pretty expensive, but I made my peace with it. The…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:58AMMonday, January 15, 2018
Touring West End shows have a dicey history. They used to have a reputation for being the poorer cousin of their London counterparts, featuring chopped-down sets and losing most of their sta…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:35AMFriday, December 15, 2017
Created last year under Emma Rice's tenure at Shakespeare's Globe The Little Matchgirl and Other Happier Tales arrives in Bristol after a much heralded run in London.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:40AMThursday, December 14, 2017
As the sole pantomime in Bristol, Aladdin from pantomime giants Qdos Entertainment has a lot resting on its shoulders for families this festive season. For some, Christmas at the theatre mea…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:02AMWednesday, December 6, 2017
Stepping into the Tobacco Factory Theatre this Christmas and you're immediately transported to an eerie forest in rural France for a re-telling of this classic French fairy tale.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:57AMFriday, November 10, 2017
My name is Matty Butler and I like foxes . We're told the reaction to foxes is often similar to people with Down's syndrome like Matty. Some people think they're cute, some think they should…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:51AMThursday, November 9, 2017
Kneehigh's latest show The Tin Drum defies categorisation. Part love story, part political thriller. Part play, part musical. It is therefore like most Kneehigh work anarchic. And I think di…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:17AM 
