Snow White at the New Wimbledon Theatre is fun, frippery nonsense with high production values performed by an immensely talented cast. It is everything a Christmas pantomime should be and more. Just the thing to warm an audience on a cold winter’s night and to send them back into the real world feeling happier. Some…
Michael Harrison and the Really Useful Group are thrilled to announce that The Wizard of Oz, the musical based on the iconic story by L. Frank Baum, will play a strictly limited season at the world-famous London Palladium next summer. Michael Harrison, the producer of the smash-hit Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, presents Curve’s…
This is the sort of review in which I shall quickly use up all the superlatives I know! First seen in 2021 at Sonning, Top Hat was so successful that it has justifiably just been revived. What a show! Every aspect of it is superb Firstly, of course, the 1935 Astaire/Rogers movie on which it…
Mrs Warren’s Profession is the oldest profession. And the extraordinary Irish polymath George Bernard Shaw uses it to explore issues of exploitation, power and money. As an Irish man, Shaw knew firsthand what it was like to be a member of an oppressed people, Ireland being England’s oldest colony. There are to this day Irish…
Frank McGuinness’ play Dinner with Groucho, is a circuitous narrative about two twentieth-century cultural icons, TS Eliot and Groucho Marx. Although much has been written about Eliot, one of the world’s major poets, and about the anarchic, quick-witted comedy of Groucho Marx, little is known of their inner mysteries, sufferings and delights. McGuinness, in choosing…
WICKED, “one of the most successful musicals of all time” (BBC News), announces a major 10-city 2023-2025 UK & Ireland Tour. Opening at the Edinburgh Playhouse on 7 December 2023, the spectacular, multi-record-breaking and critically acclaimed touring production will then travel to Bristol, Birmingham, Bradford, Southampton, Liverpool, Dublin, Sunderland, Cardiff and Manchester, where it will…
