I have to admit I’m not a big fan of Elvis Presley although a few years ago my wife and I renewed our wedding vows in front of an Elvis impersonator at the Graceland Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas – but that’s another story! However, he did record some superb songs and the chance of…
The biggest story in the USA in 1924 was the kidnapping and gruesome murder of 14-year-old Bobby Franks by two rich students from Chicago, Nathan Leopold Jr and Richard Loeb which became known at the time as “The Crime of Century” and made Leopold & Loeb infamous across the land. The two were lovers and…
In June 1988, Bob Dylan set off on what has become known as ‘The Never-Ending Tour’ and apart from a break due to the pandemic, it’s still going 33 years later. Well, that title could also be applied to the Kander & Ebb musical Chicago which seems to have been on tour in the UK…
If you’re old enough to have lived through the 1970s like this reviewer, then you probably would have gone to the kind of awful parties depicted in Mike Leigh’s 1977 play Abigail’s Party but more importantly, you probably would have watched the TV version (there were only three channels at the time) which was shown…
It’s not often that you can get to see a Broadway/West End lead performer in a 100-seater black-box theatre in SE1 but that’s what’s happening at the moment at The Little at Southwark Playhouse where Rachel Tucker is appearing in John & Jen. She should have been appearing on Broadway in Come From Away, a…
Following on from the release of five tracks from Treason – The Musical comes the concert version of the brand-new musical about the gunpowder plot of 1605 filmed at Cadogan Hall during the lockdown but with Covid protocols in place. The work with music and lyrics by Rickie Allan and book by Allan and Keiran…
Most people know of The Sorcerer’s Apprentice from the segment in the Disney movie “Fantasia” where Mickey Mouse as the eponymous hero has big trouble with brooms and buckets of water when he tries to emulate his master. However, its genesis is from a 1797 poem from German writer J W Goethe and that’s the…
Billed as “A contemporary ghost story”, Declan tells the story of Jimbo a strange and disturbed young man living in a Wiltshire suburb. Directed by Alexis Gregory this short (just twenty-five minutes) monologue, written and performed by Alistair Hall tells Jimbo’s story in flashbacks as he obsesses mainly about his missing friend Declan, as well…